VB Forum / General / February 2005

Anyone out there know how to make it so that in Microsoft Visual Basic we can
collapse/expand Subs?  I have a complicated routine with sub-routines in it
and would like to be able to clooapse them and expand them to make the code
more manageable to write.

Sir
I have a usercontrol (activex control) and a form in that project. A event -
DataArrival is declared as public in the user control. A result from the
form has to be given to the user at DataArrival event as parameter.

Hi group I've been making an application to print a lot of bills for any
service at the same time.  I mean a user could print 50 bills.  But my
question is.  I will have troubles with size of the page.  How to control it
because may in the second or thirth bills the data is not in ...

Trying to right align 5 variables that hold currency values;
var1 = 1.00 var2= 10.00 var 3 = 100.00 .... .
printer.print tab(40);format(var1, "$####.00")
printer.print tab(40);format(var2, "$####.00")

How do you open window to select the directory where to
save file?
Thanx

Is it possible to search the key names in a resource file.  I'd like to have
a check to see if the key name I want to extract from the resource is
available and not leave it up to the error when trying to access a
non-existant key.

I am trying to invoke code in a menu subroutine named:
 AddDocumentMenu
that is on my form associated to the click event:
  ReqScanForm.AddDocumentMenu_Click()

Does anyone know how i can get the drives on a remote machine. I dont want to
map them, just check their free space. I will know the logon user name and
password for each machine, which i assume will need to be passed to some
api...

Sir
I have a usercontrol (activex control) and a form in that project. A event -
DataArrival is declared as public in the user control. A result from the
form has to be given to the user at DataArrival event as parameter.

I've been trying to filter an ADO recordset (rsType) to distinguish between
a list containing data like:
2 Axle Class V
3 Axle Class V

I need to send/receive message from a parallel port. Unfortunatily, I
couldn't find any control similar with MSCOMM.ocx for this purpose. Can
anyone tell me how to do? Is there API for this purpose?
Thanks in advance.

I have a problem with Visual Basic 6.0, using Visual SourceSafe.
I rolled back one of the forms, (the main one, a large forms with lots of
controls and pictures) using Visual SourceSafe.
But afterwards I couldn’t work on the form. Whenever I clicked on the icon

See the code below.  The StartLabelEdit method doesn't work when called from
the menu-click event.
I guess because the listview looses focus when the user releases the mouse.
What can i do about that?

I have an old (OK, ancient) application written in VB3.  It actually works in
XP, but there are some obvious limitations, especially with the installation.
I am not a routine developer, but I did write the code myself, and would
like to upgrade.  Can I buy a newer VB version, load ...

Hello NG,
I use WinXP and VB6 with SP6 and my problem is the following:
When I take a project with an empty form and insert a 3rd-party control
from the company combit (list and label 6), then i´ve to wait about