VB Forum / General / April 2005

Can anyone please help me with a query about mouse
position and creating a RECT of the mouse position? At the
moment the code below detects a MouseDown event and a
MouseMove event on a picture called picInner and draws a

How do I prevent the data view window for loading when VB6 is opened?

I have installed MS Visual studio first and after few days MSDN.
But I am unable to get help from the VB6. If I press Help, I get error
message that "Unable to display help".
Can someone help me please?

I would like to setup a listbox with checkboxes. This is the easy part. I do
not want the data to highlight as you click each item, just the checkbox to
have a tick in it- is this possible?
XL2002

I am trying to create an effect similar to Powerpoint
selection where you can select objects on the screen after
dragging your mouse over the screen.
In VB I have a PictureBox which acts as a container for

I am building an application that need fast speed of execution.  There
is a lot of string parsing that I do in VB6.
Do I gain in speed if all that string parsing is made in a dll coded in
 C or C++ and added to my VB6. application?

In the VB IDE I can't scroll using the wheel on the mouse (Intellimouse
Explorer 4.0 with Intellimouse Software 5.2). I've tried all sorts of
settings but none worked.
Any ideas?

Just wondering, have any of you ever needed to write a program which
involved some kind of barcode scanning part of the software?
I am looking to write something which will need to be able to read barcodes.
Has anyone any idea of aquiring Denso wave scanners using TUW or TU3 as a

How do I add command-line arguments?
TaskBar.exe /h
TaskBar.exe /s
/h = hide

Just wondering, is there a site or a general set of questions that i can
give my potential clients when they enquire about programs from our business
that they want making for them.
This just gives us more infomation on what they want and how they want it,

I was asked to write an application that has a login screen that wont allow
using Windows if the password is incorrect?
The program will communicate with a device, that is why I cannot use the
regular MS login Window.

I have a VB.net apllication (DLL) with a structure and a property get.
public structure tMyCode
    dim iCode as integer
    dim sText as string

I am trying to create a dynamic array of RECTs holding the
dimensions of various picture boxes and assign these
values at a later date. I have no problem creating a
dynamic array but I am unsure about how to assign the

I am new to VB, but not new to programming.  I have written a small app
to monitor several running processes and everything is fine except the
memory usage.  When the app starts up, even though there is very little
on the form, the memory usage displayed in task manager jumps to ...

How can I determine at runtime whether or not a specific method of a
component exists?
(Without calling it, and then trapping the inevitable error for when the
method isn't there...)