VB Forum / General / May 2005

The users of an app that I am working on have been using a DOS-based program
for the past ten or so years.  I have been told that they are kind of
resistant to change.  To help get around this, I was going to give them all
of the behavior that their old app had.  Unfortunately, ...

Using VB6 and Microsoft Direct Speech Synthesis.
On 1 machine with Win XP (SP1)
I have the following two lines
directss1.select 1

My problem is simple, i have just one form, i need to make it not visible:
myform.visible=false
doevents    'to make sure the form is really not visible
...my code here...

I try to use the property  WebProjectCacheDirectory of VSLangProj.dll (in
VBNet) to get the path of the VSWebCache and it's doesn't work...
How may I do to use it correctly....  ??
My code...

I have a data grid which has multiple columns.  I cannot fit them all on the
screen so in order to view them all you must scroll to the right.  Is there
a way to hold the first column so when you scroll to the right it is always
visible?  Thanks.

I have to display a large number of values in a form, they are all stored in
arrays. What is the best way to do this?
In a later stage all the values have to be written to Excel, can i use .csv
files for this (is it the best way)?

I am trying to follow the code example on this page
http://www.codeproject.com/vbscript/vbActiveXControl.asp trying to learn how
to create activeX controls but I do not have the Package and Deployment
Wizard.  I have MS VB 6.  How do I get the deployment wizard?

Well,
because staying focus is very important
for my users, I got another question.
Maybe there is a way to:

I have a richtextbox with the text of a classic novel in it. I want to show
the user line 500, how do I programmatically get the text scrolled down to
this line? I can't see myself any way of doing this.

I've several COM interfaces which return a value of HRESULT type.   For
example, a method looks like: HRESULT getCustValue([in] BSTR strCust, [in]
BSTR strInput, [out] BSTR* output).  I want to check error/reason if the
calling fails.  How can I do that?

I have VB6 installed on my PC but am having a hrad time getting the
thunbwheel to scroll in the module window. It's a standard MicrosoftOptical
mouse and I have installed the latest Intellimouse drivers (5.20.413.0).
I've selected the exact mouse from the list and have checked that ...

I'm using vb6 and the Printer object.
Everything works fine, except that that "job" name shows up in the printer
queue named the same as my app.
If I print more than one document, I can't distinguish between the print jobs.

Hello, novice VB question:
I created a module which prompts the user to choose and import a spreadsheet
into an Access table.  As the next step, I need to add a new field to the
imported table.  (I do not want the user to need to go to Table>Design View

VB6
I need to pop up a msgbox without it stopping other timer-activated
background tasks.
Is there way to prevent this?   Modal ?

i am currently using a picturebox and it's line method to create a simple
line graph with two different colored lines on it.  the X axis represents
time, and the Y represents a water level height reading at the particular
time.  one line represents a previously predicted water ...