VB Forum / General / June 2005

I'm developing a TTS application that needs to send the speech output to a
wav file.
This works great in SAPI 5, but I dont know how to do it in SAPI 4 (and some
voices I need is in SAPI 4)

How could I set the lpstrInitialDir of the OPENFILENAME type to
"C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents", I have tried a few
combination of enviroment variables and none is working.  Thanks in advance.

I would like to have the caret displayed while I am editing a MSHFlexGrid. I
have tried the API call ShowCaret(MSHFlexGrid1.hWnd) with no visible
affects. Any ideas?
Thanks,

I have two very large ASCII files (> 2GB each) which I need to concatenate
into a single file.
I don't want to use the FileSystemObject as I've found that it's dreadfully
slow when dealing with relatively quite smallish files, and so I need a new

How can I add a field to an existing AxChartSpace ??
I have just a AxChartSpace, and I want to use it to show differents fields
(The user could choose the field he want to see)
I think I have to do it with the PivotTable, but I can't modify the

I create a VB application, put it on a cd rom with autorun.inf; so it can be
run automatically when inserting the Cdrom. It works fine with WinXP but not
Win98. I get: Run-Time Error 52 Bab file name or number. The program does
run if I copy all files onto hard drive though. Thanks ...

  I am trying to write a program to simulate left mouse clicks for adding
points in a game. It works if I am on the Desktop but in game it doesn't.
The mouse does move back and for though but it just doesn't click. Do I miss
anything? Is there any other mouse event function that I ...

Can anyone see how I could speed up this WMI Query? I am looking for 2
specific events that occured in the time frame specified. I do this against a
120 servers and it takes a good hour and a half to run. It seems the WMI
query is what taked a long time.

I have an app (MDI) I've been selling for a while and I'm looking into
changing it so that it can accept add-ons, but I really don't know where to
start
Are there any articles which you can point me to, which explains how to

How can I detect a key when users press something, even if the application
is not in focus. I tried Form_Keypress, KeyPreview... but it only works when
the VB program is in focus. Thanks in advance.

I am trying to add a text to a header in a word document.
I have also tried find find and replace in the document
this also does not work
How can I achive this

Our marketing guy feels that the "standard" VB6 look is "too 20th century".
He wants us to find some "snazzy looking" controls.  We're starting to look
around, but thought some folks here might have some experience.
Any ideas?

I've just (after 2 years!) discovered the data repors object
Well, I've foind int NOW becuase I've gone from VB6 learning to
enterprise!!
However,

I'm getting a weird new Error message: "Cannot find project or library" when
I try a compile & run on a project.  It stops on this line:
Public WithEvents ListView As ListView
The really weird thing is that I have never seen this error message on this

I'm trying to come up with a string pattern that allows numeric entry in
scientific format.  (ie.,  1.23E-02 or 1.1E3 etc)
I can get it to accept the positive exponential values (without "+" sign)...
but I can't seem to get it to work properly with the negative exponents