VB Forum / General / June 2005

Random "is this possible" question.
There's a piece of software that I typically run 4 instances of.  On a
1280x1024 resolution, there's a fair amount of overlap.  It fits almost
exactly on 1600x1200.  The windows are not resizeable (only minimize).  Is

I want to store binary information as binary, such as an array of 1024
checkboxes into 1024 bits, represented by 128 long character string. I
cannot figure out how to do this in VB except in blocks of 8 bits or 1
character. I want to be able to set, get, clear, and read the ...

I was wondering what methods of getting the next database sequence method
you lot use?
I usally go in and do a move beginning and move last to pick up the highest
number and then add 1 to it through my sequence selector.

I have a program with a kind of adresbook, i have also a website where users
can download contacts.
The downloadable files have a own extention ".mma", but when i click the
link Explorer ask to open the file or save it.

My program's frmAbout has an icon. The ico file has the same icon in two
sizes, 16 x 16 and 32 x 32 pixels. I don't want the smaller one to be
displayed to users. So,  the size should be 32 x 32 pixels.
Anyway, on some computers the icon will be displayed in size 16 x 16

Hi group
How can I monitor all the key pressed for a specified window which I have
its handle???? I mean all the key pressed even in its text box or any other
input controls in the specified window?

I am trying another attempt to make my application more tolerant of
international setting.
If I change the Regional/language setting from English US to English
Netherlands, I get the following errors in a log file when the form

I would love to know how to use the tree control,  my idea is to have a
newsgroup style look and function in my program where all the users can post
messages.
I have a database alreay written to handle this, i just want to show it in

I have a form without a title bar which makes a blank button on the
taskbar.  How do I set the taskbar text without a title bar? (VB6)
TIA
Gary

im need to dreat a demonstration program fro one of our vb6 applications. Cab
anyone suggerst ant software that i could use to do this ?

After I did this:
Set Curves = GetObject(App.Path + "\tmp.xls")
and completed what I needed to obtain from tmp.xls Excel file.  I noticed
that Excel.exe is still running in the background.  

set NEWNAME=infofile.txt
for /f %%a in ('dir /b /od *.inf.*') do ren %%a %NEWNAME%
from batch file .... I can rename a ext that is inf.3 inf.4 etc..... not
knowing what the number is

Im trying to find a way of getting Visual Basic 6 to pick out specific
segments of text from a string.
For example, the following text entered into a string "There was pizza in
Italy", im trying to get it to pick-up on the word pizza.

When I try this:
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strXML="c:\test.xml"
xmlDoc.Load strXML

Is it recommended to prevent type mismatch errors as follows.
I have an ActiveX DLL.
The DLL is for use only by Microsoft Word.
The Word template would include such as: