VB Forum / General / June 2005

Hello everyone, here is my situation:
VB  6.0 IDE.
Everytime I have my codes writes out a long sentences into a text file using
"print" command, notepad opens it up and displayed correctly.  However, when

Well, folks.  I've taken the plunge and started forcing myself to learn
VB.NET.   I've already purchased a boat-load of books and online videos.
Also have convinced my boss to subscribe to MSDN.  I have already
download/installed Visual Studio 2005 beta2 and SQL Server 2005 beta2 ...

With help from this newsgroup I just came up with a program that takes input
from the command line.  Currently I have to type the full path to the file I
want to operate on.  Is there a quick and dirty way to specify the file I
want to monkey with and have the program look in the ...

I am studying Visual Studio Windows Installer. I couldn't find a forum in
the news groups that covered Visual Studio.
Does someone know of one ?

I have extensively modified the "VisData" application that is shipped with
Visual Studio, and would like to further modify it by imbedding a series of
controls in a frame.  A sample of code generating the controls I'd like to
imbed:

In another newsgroup. I saw a reference to Ken Halter's
http://www.vbsight.com/BinaryComp.htm.
I looked at a few of my VB 6 projects:
1. An ActiveX DLL project that had "Project Compatibility" selected. I

I've put a SSTAB register card in a usercontrol and properly written resize
code for resizing the control (which itself is resized by the embedding
form) as well as the SSTAB. The four register cards 0...3 contain different
controls, different TrueDBgrids on three pages an some ...

A user reported the following message when trying to setup my software on
his windows XP.
My program is created in VB6 SP6 and I use the Microsoft Setup and
Deployment Wizard.

I have one form and with button I open another form. This second form is not
all visible when opened. Bottom part of form is not visible.
How to set property of of other form that Top property of form is 0. I am
trying with Startup position (0- Manual) and enter 0 value in Top ...

I am using the MSComm Control v6 in two forms in a MS Access 2003
application.  The forms are used to get a weight value from a balance
that is connected via a Serial-to-USB cable.
The one form works fine, but the other form, which previously worked

I'm looking to make a form that has two list boxs and the user can select a
list item and move it to the other box by clicking a move button.
Well to make the buttons look nice I want those Arrows that are on the Adodc
form object.

Can anyone explain what is going on in this test:
- i created a new "generic / text only" driver pointing to LPT1 (i.e the
laserjet)
- i right click the driver, goto properties, printer commands

My VB6 Hardcopy reports have been spooling and printing fine for
years running on an HP Laser Jet on the intranet.  Network guy just
replaced said printer with a new Konica/Minolta PagePro 1350W.  Much
faster, nicer printer.  Here's the problem:  All of a sudden all my

I haven't seen anything on this list about this yet, so thought I'd give it a
shot.
I am writting an image processing application.  Most of my gui is done in
VB5 and I call dll functions written in straight C to do most of the time

I want to add web browsing capability to my VB application. I want the user
to be able to browse a web page within a VB form, locate specific site, save
the screen to a file and pass the name of the file to a variable in the
application. Does any one know of any good sample VB ...