VB Forum / General / April 2005

Hi Gang,
I need to display a progress bar where progress is unknown. In other words,
I need to display something like the control you see at the Windows Update
site when it is searching for updates: the bar just does its thing without

I am using VB NET 2002.  How can I programmatically create a new windows
form using the value of a string variable as the name of the new form?
Public FrmName As String = "NewForm"
Public %FrmName% as new Form

I'm using the FileSystem object to read -> edit -> write a file...
Set FSO = New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Set inBuffer = FSO.OpenTextFile(mFileIn, ForReading, , TristateFalse)
Set outBuffer = FSO.OpenTextFile(mFileOut, ForWriting, True, TristateFalse)

During a Form_Load, under certain conditions, I need to cancel the form
load.  If I "Exit sub" then it still shows the form.  If I "Unload Me" then
I get the obvious error since the form hasn't finished loading.
I can restructure my program to determine this condition earlier, but ...

VB 6,  SP 6, Win98
I am using blat from the shell command to e-mail statements from my
application. ie - shell "blat etc", vbminimized.
It works OK with one statement but seems to have problems on a run. I think

Does anyone know how to print a multipage .tif file in VB6?  I would like it
to work with XP and 2000 without any code change I think I was reading that
because the image viewers are different in the OS that native DLLs to use are
different.  

I'm getting confused understanding two "If Not" statements. Can someone
help me out here? Thanks in advance.
1) I know that VehID is optional so IsMissing(VehID) will return False
if the VehId was not passed and will return True if it is passed. So if

is it possible to iterate (from code) the bookmarks collection that i
toggled in my code?
how?
thanks.

I want to setup a fax machine in XP and then write a program to send the
fax. Any fax object in vb6 I can use? Besides, any sample code or referene
page. Thanks.

I am using VB6/SP6/WINXPSP2.
When I use in a command button this code:
myflex.visible = false
it does not work :(

I hope someone can help as this small problem is really bugging me.
I am supporting an application that was coded a while ago and i am a
relative noob when it comes to vb6 programming skills.
At the minute, our program has to hit a secure website and prior to doing

Hello, All!
   First off, if this is the wrong newsgroup to post this in, please let me
know which one would be better.. Thank you.   Ok, with that out of the way,
here's what I'm wondering.

Looking through some old code I see the statement MsgBox Error$
If this any different to MsgBox Err.Description
Thanks,
Chris

If I have a 2 dimension array
1 2 3 4 5 6
a b c d e f
* - + / = ^

I would like to ask how can I declare a variable (data type) to store a
complex number in VB6.0