VB Forum / General / May 2005

what if there's no mid function in vb(classic) .. how can i cut the
string ... can somebody give me a code of this .. ?

[Ops, sorry for the doubled post, but I had some troubles with m
browser]
Thank You, Christoph Basedau, it works fine!
Now, I have two other problems:

I hope I have enough information presented here to make an answer easier to understand, than the "problem" is. I sure
don't understand this process as it is now...
I have a "State/Province" ComboBox, with a fairly long list of List-Elements. I wanted to have a function that would

When I double click a column header in a MSHFlexDataGrid my code
doesn't short the column. It acts like a simple click.  I have debugged
the code and the MSHFlexGrid1.MouseRow never takes the value 0. What am
I doing wrong?

I have a MSHFlexGrid that has scroll bars in both directions.
I turn the scrolling off whenever I edit a cell by overlaying the cell
with a text box.
I turn it off to ensure the used does not scroll the grid away from

I am trying to use the standard open file dialog with web folders.
Everytime I use the open file dialog to open a file in a web folder it will
copy the file down to a temporary directory on the local workstation and
then select the temporary file.  Is there a way around this?

Is there a way in VB6 to round negative numbers towards zero when the
deciding number is 5? For example, if my number is -0.245, and I would like
to round to 2 decimal places, I would like the number rounded to -0.24.
Currently, I'm using the formula below for asymmetric ...

Presently, I must use the <TAB> key to step through the TabIndex order of my controls.
<Enter> has no effect and I would like it also to be active and allow a user to step through
the TabIndex
Question: How do I activate the Enter Key to accomplish that?

I am thinking of storing all the icons/images used in my application in a
separate file. That file will not be a dll or exe. It will be a custom data
file in which I will store my images in my own way. Now I want to load them
into the imagelist.

i recently saved my vb project on a cd. when i open back my project it
prompted me with "MSCOMCTL.OCX could not be loaded" and my project won't
run as expected.
anyone! please help me to find the solutions.

I have written a VB program that pulls fields out of an Access database
and displays them on screen. When I try to use the .AddNew function to
update some records, I am getting the error:
"The field tblWindowtype.Matcode can not contain a null value because

Is there any way to check if an application, started by object.create, has
finished executing?
I need to start an Access database, wait for it to update before running the
next application.

Short version:
Is there a way that I can use SetCapture/ReleaseCapture to track where a
mouse is moving?  I need to figure out if a user clicks on something on a
form that I have (a slide-out panel that I have, using a third party OCX

I have help buttons a several different forms. I want each one to launch the
help viewer, but each should start on a different page in the chm file (thus
providing context-sentitive help). According the the 1.4 docs you can
download, this should do the trick

Hi!
I ran into a strange phenomena:
After clicking on either the spin buttons (the small triangles) or the
scroll bar itself of the drop-down list of a combobox, the scrolling