VB Forum / General / April 2005

I'm trying to create  a RTF text in code that will be pasted in another
preexisting RTF code.
I wish to include some simple codes, like bold, italic and font size,
somethng like this:

Is it natural for the text in the combobox to disappear after clicking on it?
At the end of the CLICK event of the combobox, I did a MSGBOX on the content
(no problem). But, immediately after, the text disappears which is very
annoying. I tried setting focus to another control in ...

I know many of you have addressed this issue and are certainly far
ahead of me on it.
I'm not using any of the "Data Engineer" type of wizards, I set up my
database and table variables  with raw code.

I have been given the task of automating (as much as possible) a conversion from Netscape mail to Outlook 2003.
Here's the scenario:
Most of our users are running Netscape 7.x
Outlook 2003 cannot import from Netscape Mail.

I am trying to select a dynamic range of  cells in a column for a simple
formatting macro.  I want the number of populated cells in column A selected
each time I run the macro, and the number of populated cells  varies each
time.  Is this possible?

As a novice I have found that an effective way for me to write better code
while working on a project is to create a test project that I can work out
problems that I may be having.
I am currently working on a project that gathers information from NOAA.

In another thread, I asked about the level of interest in VB6 v. VB.NET (I'm
trying to assess demand for coverage of issue in the online magazine I'm
gong to be publishing this June). Quite a bit of discussion turned around
the subject of the pros and cons of using Borland's ...

Is there a way in vb6 to count how many times you ve clicked ,say, a form or
image box. For example say you had three image boxes, two not visible with
pics and one empty as a destination box ,and you wanted to view one pic  and
then the other by clicking on the third box . ...

is there a way to create a window
(it may be without borders) which
has no focus at any time? It has
to have command buttons, listviews

I haven't used the earlier version of VB (before VB6)
Are they very different from VB6? I'm assuming VB3 was for 16 bit Windows
and might not be easy to
port to VB6.

I currently am upgrading my vb6 application which is a service that I have
created using the ntvbsvc file set.
Here is the problem the old version of my app works fine and of course I am
upgrading the service to bigger and better things.

I have the following code in a VB6 application.
Running it on WinXP works just fine, but when I try ti run it on a
Windows Server 2003 machine I get an error 429 - ActiveX component
can't create object.

Happily cruising at a good speed in my development effords, I've suddenly
run into a concrete block in form of a "Class not registered" error.
I've got a ActiveX-Control, which is pretty sizeable and has grown over the
last several years. It consists of four user controls, a few ...

How can I display a picture (graph) that has a transparent background?
The area that I want to put the picture on is currently a frame.
I can make the GIF file with a transparent background using Paint Shop
Pro.

I tried to install a package I created using vb6 p&d wizard.
OS = Windows 2000.
For ever do
  I run setup.