VB Forum / General / February 2005

I need help with the following:
I am doing a lookup screen for users.
I am accessing a SQL Query.
The User can enter either a State or the first 6

List:
Pardon the question from a C convert.
Under C semantics, a logical statement is only executed so far as it's
necessary to determine its outcome.

I am trying to determine the pixel length of an array of
strings to set a listbox width to the max string length in
VBA.  I tryied using the GetTextExtentPoint32  function,
but the length returned seems to be too big or too small.  

I have an application where I need to read a directory into an array. The
directory will contain file names which are the same except there will be
Revision 1,Rev 2 etc.  I'd like to display these in a list box and the user
can select the revision they want.

We want to build a dynamic menu in runtime as depend of the some field value.
For example, I want to build an complete app with all the option on the menu
but depending of the customer then I will display some ootion of the menu.
Please help us,

I currently am using a multi form application.  Its a little confusing to
the user.  I would like to change it.
I would like to have one main form.  The upper half of the form would be the
present main form.  The lower half of the form be a 'container' that will

First of the following 2 code sections does it matter which I use??  My
thought is that one might be better vs the other depending on speed??
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I am trying to work out how to write a program to work out a schedule
for parents' evening for our local school. I'm not quite sure how to go
about the actual schedule bit and was hoping someone can offer some
ideas ;-)

I have an old dll that I'm trying to recompile. There is a project reference
to Ado 2.7.  When I compile, I get an Automation Error - no more detail than
that. I have a test script that I can debug the dll against which is an asp
page. When I  run the project in debug mode, the ...

my application uses a lot of images in imagelistes
lately I got the problem that sometime I run out of
graphic-memory.
I wanted to know if using onther ImageList (e.g. the

Does anyone in thie group know about any other good imagelists?
(I do know the one of vbAccelerator)
What imagelist/Treeview - Controls is used by the VB.experts?
thx

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Is there a way to have a GUI that browses for a network printer and
returns the UNC? ie:
\\server\printer
Any help is appreciated.

I am trying to run a form without showing it. From one
form I am trying to run another form, but I do not want
the second form to be displayed.
Thanx

I have a Common Dialog Box in my application which I use to open a file. My
problem is that I wish to strip off only the file name ([filename].txt) from
CommonDialog.FileName as this currently gives the full path. Is there an
easy way of stripping off the file name given that the ...