VB Forum / General / May 2005

I'm writing a VB6 application that reads data from one Excel spreadsheet and
puts it in the cells of a second Excel spreadheet.  Then I want to print (to
the printer) the 2nd spreadsheet from VB.  Is this possible, how?
Thanks.

Im trying to create a window (dialog form) that will display the list of all
the fonts installed on the system. I could create a control instead, but
since its going to be used only once so Im creating the items directly into
the form. Its supposed to be like this:

I'd like to connect a scanner to the USB port and read the data using VB.  I
can do it easily with a serial port connection but the USB is out of my
league.  Any help?

Does anyone happen to know how can i get my splash screen to appear above/
on top of my application when the application loads. ie: i want to see my 1st
form in the background and the splash screen in the foreground.
kies

Hello, anyone know of a good free/shareware program that prints vb source
code. Thanks.

I want to use an Inet control to download a Microsoft install program (in
this case it is MSDE SP4, but I think this is a more general question than
how to get the latest MSDE). To do this, I need the url of the program. The
problem is that on the download page, there are ...

I wish to have an update.exe run first, download updates into .dat files and
then execute main.dat as an executable so that my program only has one .exe
file and looks integrated with loader.
Does anyone know of a method I could use so that "Loader.exe" could run

Is is possible to print directly to a printer without going through
the Spool with VB in a XP Pro environment?  I want to print some
serial numbers on some preprinted forms (about 20K forms) but not one
at a time.  Is it possible to work with the printer directly??

Okay, here is where I am.
I have a class file that displays a tray balloon when the need arises.
There are five different cases (alerts) where displaying this balloon would
be desirable (user choice of course, but for this example, let's assume

Does anyone use it?  I recently had to re-setup my machine and just realized
that I hadn't re-installed it.  I tried codehound.com, but I didn't find it.
Hmmm....  Anyone know where I can download a copy?

I am writing some software to use a couple of data aquisition cards to
control a hardware test.  My test control software has several windows
to permit user parameter entry and to monitor test status.  Throughout
the test, I would like the user to be able to manipulate these ...

A long time ago I made a change to another system to change the
default "save to" directory but now I cannot remember what value in
the registry was added/edited. Any help?
-John

I have to support our one remaining VB6 project on one machine. For some
reason, all of a sudden, when I load the project, I get "file format no
longer supported" for the Microsoft Windows Common Controls. I need the
control for the ListView and for the DTPicker (Date time). What ...

If you use a common dialog control to create a file open dialog, then
the list box (I guess it is) that shows the files also shows folders.
The standard Windows controls don't seem to have such a list box, they
split them up into a file list box and a folder list box.

   My form uses several different icons. To change the icon I use
 nid.hIcon = LoadResPicture(10, vbResIcon)
 Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_MODIFY, nid
How to check programmatically which icon is loaded at the moment?