VB Forum / General / March 2005

What is the deal with SSTab?  Why is it so slow in painting the screen?  I
even tried it on a 2.4 GHz box and it's still slow painting the screen?  I
think that I may have to go back to the TabStrip/Frames combo.  Anyone else
have any ideas?  I really like the idea of having all the ...

thanks.

I've have an application that runs invisible.  That is borderless and
minimized.  It does not show up on the task bar.  On occasion I need to be
able to "restore" this programs window to make changes and then return to
being invisible.

Is there a way to make the BackColor of a control ( specifically a
label) so that it is transparent and will show an image that is in the
background?
Thanks,

I am looking for some advice on how to maintain data (user input and
application data) during the life of the program.  Basically, I need
business entities that hold data to be used during the application which
will be used by other classes and other aspects of the application.  ...

I need help with the following regular expression pattern
The text to search looks like this:
 a[0]= 1x
 b[0]= 2x

Hello, I have an old vb3 application that works as viewer for
different files document (word doc, image, sound ...) using OLE. It
works under w2000. On windows xp sometimes does not work. For example
a gif image was showed correctly under w2000 and older but on XP show

  I was having some issue regarding registered ActiveX DLL in window XP
Home/Pro SP 2 computer. No problem in Window 2000 computer when
registered ActiveX DLL . The ClSID always overwritten or different CLSID .
Any ideas how to solve the problem ?

Can project properties be set via the command line? i.e. compatability mode,
compatability file?

I recompiled my program to create a new EXE file.
How do I update the .exe file in my .CAB file?
TIA.

How can I write to the console in vb?

Is there a way to tell if a dynamic array has been Dim-ed.  As I have found
trying UBound(TheArray) gets an subscript out of bounds error, IsArray
returns true, IsEmpty and IsNull return false.  Is there anything else to
try or am I left to an error handler.  Actually, sometimes I ...

I posted warnings about anti-spyware products breaking applications earlier.  
Here is more information about other files being ripped from your user's
desktop.
See http://www.scanspyware.net/info/DownloadAcceleratorPlus.htm

I have a callback function prototype for a DLL defined as following in a C
header file:
typedef BOOL (__stdcall * ProgressCallback)(unsigned done,unsigned total);
so I have a vb function which is as follows:

I have 2 questions:
1) Suppose I use a Macro to select a range of data for a Excel graph, and
convert it to my style. Then I want to add a number of checkbox, that if
clicked, show/hide certain linked dataseries. Since the data range is