VB Forum / General / April 2005

I'm trying to do a Visual Basic program that allows me print all .pdf
documents inside a folder. If there is only one .pdf document inside the
folder my program run propertly, but unfortunately when there are several
.pdf documents it only print the last 2 ones. I supose that it ...

I use the MAPI controls with VB6 for e-mail functionality in my apps. With
Outlook we are starting to encrypt and digitally sign e-mails. Is there a way
to use the PKI functionality we have with Outlook and encrypt and or sign
e-mails created with VB and the MAPI control?

Does anyone know of any good sites that have either free or cheap icons that
I can use for my application.exe and possibly toolbars.   I'm looking for
something that is good quality and has a professional look.   I'm impressed
with http://www.glyfx.com/products/character.html and ...

My Main Application Window (MainApp) may open further windows
In some cases this starts a sub running (RUNNINGSUB) which may take some
time.
PROBLEM

I am trying to compile an old program. I have successfuly compiled same
programe many times in the past. But I have tried several times today to
compile the same progame and I keep getting this error ....
VB6 program error

I can't get the ONComm event to fire.  I know the my balance is sending data
through the RS-232 port because I can see it in hyperterminal.  What am I
missing??
Thanks

Is there a way, other then setting a flag, to determine that
I am in the middle of a transaction?
In other words, if I hit my errorhandling code, I need to
know if I should do a Rollback or not.

Dear Forum Members,
I am using VB6 for a billing application. There I want to print the bill
on a Generic Text printer. So I have installed a Generic Text printer on
my system. My system OS is Windows 2000. How to add a custom paper size to

I used to make it like this
.listitem(1).forecolor=qbcolor(4)
for i = 1 to 5
.listitems(1).listsubitems(i).forecolor=qbcolor(4)

Comming from a COBOL environment, GOTO Exit created unstructered code and
was not considered to be a good practice. Is the same true with Exit Select,
Exit Sub, Exit Function, ....... ?

Could it be possible that the ASCII character chr(182) is not the same
on every PC?  I find it strange, I have a weird bug in my application
and this is something I suspect.
I'm not sure it make sense, but I'm looking for every scenario...

When I try to run this statement copied from the VB help
Dim fso As New FileSystemObject, txtfile, fil1, fil2
I get a Compile error: User-defined type not defined.
Could someone tell me what is wrong please?

I try to disable the standard copy paste pop up window that occurs with a
right click into a standard visual basic textbox.
No success.
Does anyone know how to do that?

I have prbably a silly question but I recently wrote code to loop through 8
bitmaps and display them in an image box.the code is
Private Sub Image2_Click()
Dim index As Integer

I need to open a word document, read a multi column table and translate it
into a database table. Anyone knows where I can find sample vb code for the
Word automation part of this?