VB Forum / General / June 2005

I need the ability of opening a pipe or comma delimited file in VB 6.0 and
be able to modify the file and save it back as pipe or comma delimited, but I
do not want to open an Excel application to do this.  I have seen the Sheet
control but there is no example code to use it and ...

I have an image combo, bound to a data field. The problem is, no image is
displayed unless the user expands the image combo.
So, lets say the field is "Chair". There is an image in the image list
called "Chair". I want the image combo to display the "chair" image when the

I've see vb programmers use "#If" as a processor directive to permit
code to run based on environment variables.  Case in point (this code
works):
'If we are debugging, the IDE is a little brain dead and needs to know

Is there a way to execute a chuck of code when the application received
focus?
Thanks,
Bernie

Hi! I used Microsoft Access Calendar Control 9.0 on my vb6 project.
made an exe file and it worked fine. But when I transfered the exe fil
to a different computer, the calendar control was corrupted. The dat
buttons were not displayed as they were on the previous computer. Ca

I want to draw a dotted graph inside a picturebox. Problem is, that i want
to display text when the user moves the mouse over a point, next to the
point itself. Some kind of tooltiptext. How do i detect where the user has
the mouse inside the Picturebox and how do I find out if ...

I have a stupid question but I can't seem to find what I need.
I need to print the contents of a label. The label contains a PDF417 barcode
and I need to print it on a sheet of paper.
I have tried to search for something but I don't think I am using the right

List:
I have a form with a showform method:
mLocalCopy as myObject
Public Function ShowForm(obj as myObject) as  myObject

I'd like to have a display (like a DirListBox or explorer style tree) that
shows a list of remote computers' C$ shares and subdirectories.  Is there a
way to either modify a DirListBox to add these shares or make a custom
control to do something like this?

I am writing an application in VB6 to control an executable file. Th
program was delivered to us with no access to the source code. In orde
for the program to be of any benefit to us it must be run multiple time
while changing certain parameters between runs.

I have a timer (say Timer1) with interval = 60000 (1 minute).
I have some codes in subroutine MySub which goes thru a loop.
My question is: if the program is in the middle of running the codes in
MySub and Timer1 hits, will the program finish running MySub before it runs

I can't display a tooltip in a timer event. Is this due to the tooltip having
its own timer? Is there any way to bypass this.
Thanks

Does anyone out there know if I can stop the ToolTip from appearing on the
Slider control?  I'm trying to use one of these to allow users to set a
scale for drawing purposes, and behind it the slider returns for me the
distance in Twips from the left end to the current position.  ...

I have an output stored procedure on Sql Server 2000.  It works fine in
query analyzer.  
declare @c int
declare @d int

How do I configure VB6 and Windows XP so that when I dbl-click on a *.bas  
file (associated with VB6), VB6 opens that *.bas file automatically in the  
IDE.
In that case, the VB6 common behaviour consist in creating a new project