VB Forum / General / April 2005

Is there a way to determine if a windows application  is running, if
it is to give it focus, if not to load it and then give it focus

There's either something weird going on with my code or it's just my lack of
understanding. Hopefully someone can shed some light.
I wrapped an ActiveX control into my own UserControl. Then I ran into this
oddity:

I am writing an application that I would like to have taskbar like
qualities.  I.e Ttaht is is always on one of the borders of the screen
is always on top and that when you maximize another program my prgram
will not cover the other program but rather the other program will be

Friends,
I am a VB6 user and would like to write a piece of code that will be used to
import text files whose fields are at different characters long. I want my
users to be able to set the length of individual fields, something similar

I want to put some standard routines in a single module and be able to
access them from other modules or Forms.
How can I do this?
Thanks for any help. tmb

Can someone help me how I can search for an text in a RichTextBox and when
the code find the text I search for it will copy the 10/line below into a
text file!!!
Please help!

VB6 IDE - how can I put [Close Windows] in the [Window] menu?
My desktop has it there but my laptop does not.
Stan Hilliard

Windows/XP shows a number of properties for a file, including Subject, Title,
Author, Keywords, Comments.
Is it possible to access these properties from a VB6 program?

Keyboard Lock?
Here's what I want to do:
I'm taking a Windows 98SE laptop to a swapmeet.
I have some demos set up and want to prevent people

Say in my visual basic 6 application i have two forms (FormA and FormB).  In
formA i have a picturebox control and fromB is a borderless form and
contains nothing.
What i want to do is show formB in formA's picturebox, can this be done.

I have a problem. I use the Print object to send text to the printer. Over a
network it takes about 3 min. I tried saving the text as a file and send it
using the copy command from the command prompt "copy mytext.txt lpt1". The
printer almost instantly starts printing. I really ...

I am attempting to manipulate a data-base each record of which consists of
92 bytes.
The checksum is calculated by adding together 22 sets of 4 bytes in the form
of hex numbers.

It's just 10 weeks to DreamHack summer 2005
The biggest and best Lan Party, So says 'Guiness' (another saver)
It's starts a Thursday morning and closes 3 days later,  
(I mean; talking about 3 days)

I am using an API hook in an application but want it to still operate when
the application is minimised. Accprding to the API documentation, the
ThreadID is set to zero but the return procedure has to be in a DLL.  I have
used API DLL's before (obviously if I've got a hook ...

Friends,
I have defined the following Type
Private Type GoldFields
  strField As String