VB Forum / General / February 2005

I use VB6/Word Automation to change the printer by assigning .ActivePrinter
='blah blah blah'. It works but it also set the Window default printer to
blah blah blah. Is there another way to do it whithout touching the default
printer. (I can probably save it and change it back, but ...

'I am using the Circle Method in a picture box to create cam geometry (Arcs)
'I discovered an error in positioning the arc in the Y direction.  To
explain the
'point please open a new project and create a picture box, Picture1, and a

I am looking for advice before I head too far down the wrong path.
I've got many usercontrols in a project, and I load them dynamically
depending on the node that the user clicks on a treeview...like Outlook in
Folder view, if that makes any sense.  Well, I've got one usercontrol ...

Now I am just curious. I went ahead and set 1=1. But what I'd like to know
how to do is copy from memory one udt to another?
Public UDT
 1 as string

I want to run .exe file from within my VB6 code. How do I
do that.
Thanx

i have the following problem:
Our company uses a localization software (passolo) which allows the
generation of Language-DLLs to use in C++ projects.
However we have VB projects as well and want to use this feature their also,

Hi Everyone. I have a question regarding document generation products. Let
me try to explain how we currently handle things where i work. We use two
products for document generation: Microsoft Word 2000 and Crystal Reports
8.5. THe problems we are having is more with Microsoft Word ...

Does any one know of a way to open a table using visual basic so it will look
like a datasheet entry in access ?

How do I assign an icon to my VB6 EXE file? I looked under the Project
Properties and found the Make tab, but it only displays the icon of the
forms in my project. How do I choose another graphic to be the icon for the
EXE.

A few months ago i asked about code to enable me to copy a directory
structure along with files from one machine to another.  A suggestion to look
at
http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/shell/shdirectorycopy.htm

I posted this question last year but the offered solution didn't work.
1) Is there a way to easily tell if an appliation has the XP whizzy look
applied.
2) How to determine the colors used - at the moment I'm doing a 1 pixel

I am working on Multilangual support for our application. We are Using
Resource file to load the Languages.
Now, I need to automate the process of writing data into resource file.
Can anyone please help me?

apologies in advance for longwinded question

I had abandoned arrays for a long time in favor of collections.
Now i've seen several references to the speed factor in favor of arrays.

How should I read and write a single byte at
a time in VB(binar mode)
In C/C++ I will do something like:
while((data = fgetc(in_file))!= EOF){

Hello --
When using the wizard to build a form with these properties:
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