VB Forum / General / May 2005

I've created an "Add Item" wizard for VB that allows a user to add a
specialized class that works with my application framework.  In the wizard,
the user can select the interfaces they would like to support.  During the
code generation phase, I add an "Implements Ixxx" for each ...

I wrote a little prg that must be included in an installer. I am not the
author of installers. As a matter of fact, I know nothing about them. The
author of the installer asked if I could return an error code that the MSI
could handle. Sure... I guess. How to I return something ...

I did a house cleaning on a fairly large VB6 app and converted (with great
concentration) lots of string literals to constants using search and
replace. Now the app seems to run faster. I'm wondering if this is my
imagination or do constants run faster than string literals in ...

I don't know if it's possible but I think so.
Is there a way in VB6.0 to retrieve the default fontname and -size of an
Active window from a different program (read any program)?
Thanks in advance,

We have an application made using VB6. One of our customer reported that
when he runs its setup.exe, a message box pops up, reading "Some of of file
are out of date ... If you want to use the out-of-date file, click OK, ..."
But when he click on OK, the installation just stopped.

OK - I have three tabs on my SSTab control.  I would like to remove tab #3.
I go to propteries to edit the tab, on the general tab, I try to change the
count from 3 to 2.  It gives me an error "Invalid property value".  I've
also tried changing the caption to blank.

Just wondering if I'm asking for trouble if I install VB6 (Visual Studio,
actually) on a PC that already has VB.Net 2003 installed... Anyone know?
Thx!

I would like to know if I can import files created by ADDRFILE, which is
in *.crd format, to VB6.
Cheers!
CLaudi

I am writing an application that allows the user to enter HTML in a text
box, and would like to be able to have syntax highlighting on the HTML.
I have searched for a control or bit of code to do this, but not found
anything that worked. The only one that came near was so ...

Does VB (in an ActiveX dll) allow a property set and property get to
be the same name?
Here is what I have that works, but I would like to use the same
property name for both the Get & Let

Hai
how do i pass an array of strings from VB to a function in C++ which expects
a SAFEARRAY?
Thanks.

How do I get the memory location of a variable's pointer?
With VarPtr I get the location to the content of the variable, how would I
perform what in C is the '&' operator and get the memory location that
points to the value of the variable?

I've keep coming back to this one and I still can't figure it out.
The example is in 'Advanced Visual Basic 6' by Matthew Curland on page
P83. This is compulsory reading so I'm sure you all have the book <g>,
but in case you haven't got it to hand:

I have an app that has a skinned (no border) form.  This skinned form
contains provisions for the user to resize the form by dragging any
side or corner in the usual manner.
Typical Code:

I need to read a series of bytes from a binary file into a string variable.
Unfortunately I don't know how many bytes but the sequence is terminated by a
00 byte. Is there an easy routine for doing this? The best solution I have
come up with so far is: note the file position of ...