VB Forum / General / May 2005

I work with text files that contain messages passed between POS systems and
financial institutions. The messages are text strings that vary in length,
up to 400 characters, with each string being composed of variable length
fields. Here's an example of one of the message strings:

Due to some unknown reason
Printer job stuck on the printer queue and can't be clean up from time to
time
I have to restart the spooler service always

I have a standard form that has the 'x' top right-hand corner and also has a
File/Quit (thanks to the Menu Editor).
What I'm trying to do is put a msgbox up after the user goes to File/Quit or
clicks the 'X' to say 'do you really want to quit Yes/No'.  If they click

how can I determine the maximum size of a bitmap that can be assigned
to the TabPicture property of a SSTab control without clipping or any
other kind of distortion?
TIA

Can I use mp3 files rather than WAVs in my VB app?
Do I have use special routines to do this?
Will basically any PC be able to play these sounds like WAVs do?
Thanks Mac

I've been told that if I'm using a number of pics and sound files I should
put and use them in a resource file.  Is this true?
Do you know of a good, short dummy's guide to implementing and using a
resource file, as the MS ones always seem far too convoluted.

Hi,
I'm working on vb6 with sql server 2000 and I have little problem. I'm using
a combobox to allow the user select an account number and a department number
whe filling out the form.

Can someone please explain to me the best way to handle disabling and
re-enabling various buttons and controls on a form.  I mean, do most folks
have a routine they use for this or do they simply set the values True/False
within every routine?

I installed IntelliPoint 4.1 and then learned that there was an upgrade
(5.2??), so I installed that and now I can't scroll using the mouse wheel in
VB anymore.  What gives?

Karl -
In reference to an article you wrote back in 1997
(http://vb.mvps.org/articles/pt199701.pdf) I wonder is you might still know
the chap who wrote VBRes, and if so, if he still offers it in some shape or

I am testing the contents of a variant that is structured as a ragged
two-dimensional array.  The first dimension is supposed to contain only
controls and the second dimension only strings.  To make sure that the first
D only contains controls, I can use:

What is going to be the best way to update an XML file from VB6?
Basically, I've got an XML file that contains data such as this (sample
data, of course):
<RootElement>

I have a UDT, addField, in a module, modBase, that is declared with Public
scope.  I am using it as a return type of a Public function in a form,
frmSLIC_report.  When I try to compile the program, I get the error:
Compile error:

I'm doing a program to generate newsletter and in turn need to read the
bounced email message from OUTLOOK and store these data into SQL db. These
bounced email addresses will need to be collected and for further
processing.

dim x as integer
dim count as integer
dim avg as single
sum= 0