VB Forum / General / March 2005

Have made program that evaluates user input.. I want to be able to use the
input in excel sheet, values and labels being passed over to sheet from the
form. Any ideas. I cannot find any info on how to build this form. I want to
have the excel sheet as another form within my ...

Dear friends I am a vb6 sp6 user.
I would like to enable/disable a specific menu item on the main form
depending on whether or not its childs forms are closed. When all of its
childs ar closed then this menu item should be disabled?

I was trying to work through the details of an Access database application -
how to link all the different tables, setting up the forms, generating the
reports, etc.  I was telling one of our programmers about it and lamenting
that no one else could use it unless they had Access, ...

I have created 10 forms. I need code in MDIForm so that one form should
be selected at once i.e., when I click on one Form, it should be open
and the active form should be closed. For e.g., first I have opened
Form1, when I click Form2 on MDIForm Toolbar without closing Form1 then

Does anybody know a good comparison of the pro and cons of these 3 pieces of
software/languages?
I am familiar with VBA and am looking for a language to write .exe and .dll
files.

Using VB6.0
I want to create more levels than the savesettings() method allows.
for example,  under the application entry I would like
Printers->Sub-level->sub-level->sub-level->Key->value(s)

Good Morning. My Texas Counties VB Project's Main Form uses a ComboBox where
you select the County that you want to locate. When I make the first
selection, there are two different forms that I go to (the first one shows
all the 254 counties in Texas and the second form shows ...

Dear Friends,
Is there a way to place a progress bar in one of the panels of a status bar
on an mdi form. I tried, however
on an mdi form it either snaps to the bottom or to the top of the form. When

I have an Idea, I need some input on before I go ahead and even try to
design this program.
Simply put, I want to make a form in runtime via code, to mimic the design
of a running program.

What's the best way of displaying different sets of controls in the same
forms? Until now I have been using panels which become visible.enabled when a
hyperlink on the left hand side is clicked, and the other become not visible,
but I'm sure there must be a better way?

How would you go about starting default email program and copying
specified text from a vb app to the email,text has to go in the subject
line and different text in body.Reason for this is I want to try and
simplify a program licensing.Click "reg button" and email starts and

Hey all,
I want to loop through the controls that are on a frame. I'm using VB6, so
some of the properties for the Frame control are different than in .NET. I
tried a few examples from the good old 'net, but none of them seem to work. In

Is there a way to retrieve the quantity of paper in each paper trays (Empty,
Full, 1/4, ...) ?
Thx in advance,
Serge

say i have the following:
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Private Sub Form_Load()
  For i = 1 To 5

I created a form that has three textbox for input, txtItemNumber,
txtItemDescription, txtItemPrice.
I also have a series of ten by three storing textbox to store the
information from the input textbox. I named them as follow: