VB Forum / General / June 2005

     I have a VB 6.0 application that can dynamically change from English,
to French or German by a selection on the menu.
     What really happens is I go through every control and change the font
and message to correctly show the new language.  Pretty cool I thought.

I have a bunch of strings that contain text and then numbers. I only want
the numbers. What is the fastest way to do this.
I though about testing each character in each string and then replacing it
if it's not with the give CHR$ range???

I expect that this question could be generalized to apply to any software
referenced by a DLL, but I'll refer to PowerPoint.
Given that I have:
1. A setup program that checks whether certain software is installed, e.g.,

1.    When a control gains focus, is there a way to tell how it got the
focus? Tab key, Mouse Click, <enter> etc.....
2.    When a control is losing focus, is there a way to tell how it lost
the focus?  Tab key, Mouse Click, <enter> etc.....

I am posting this here because Citrix has been absolutely no help whatsoever
in resolving this issue.
We have a VB6 application that makes a Cominterop call to .Net v1.1
assemblies showing forms. We pass the window handle of the MDI parent window

I have a co-worker that is still on Win2K (I'm on WinXP).  We have always
compiled DLLs for our apps into C:\<Windir>\System32  (I'd rather not debate
the pros and cons of that decision now).  I have been working on the VB
projects for a while on my new WinXP machine on which the ...

I have created a class module that I want to use to convert my Latitude and
Longitude, what is the proper way to declare the variable in the class
module and what is the proper way to reference them to return the new value.
I've been reading and there seems to be several ways to ...

I have a scanning system in our warehouse that every few seconds is dumping
scanned information in to a text file... We have  a second application that
copies that file every couple of minutes to a new file and dumps the
contents into  a DB... My problem is that when the first text ...

I have a line in subMain that checks for the existance on a .manifest file
in the .app directory.
If Dir$(App.path & "\program.exe.manifest") <> "" Then InitCommonControlsVB
This calls the function for Windows XP style theming.

Is it possible to attach a tool-tip to a menu item? If so, how?

Can anyone tell me why this is not working, the directory does not get created.
GetHomedir and ACK_ARCDIR are pre defined strings
An example of DirPath would be C:\ACK\ACKTARC\210605\100
PathDate = Format(Date, "DDMMYY")

I am sure someone can help me with this one.
I have a table that after my query will have somewhere between 150 to 200
rows.  Last valid row gives me max length of product...  The user will enter
a value for which something was done... and they always go from the end of

I am new to Visual Studio and VB. Is it possible to create an dll or
activeX control with Visual Studio using VB .NET? My end goal is to
create a dll that I can register with regsvr32. I want to be able to
use the dll with Visual Basic apps and VB Script that is used in ASP

I have a .txt file with a page break character somewhere in it.  It might be
the last or second to the last character in the file.  What would be the
best way to locate and remove this page break?  I was thinking about making
a second file and then deleting the first.  There must ...

   Is there a way to extract any numbers of frames from a video???  Because
I used third-party componets, but they're to slow.
  Does anyone knows how to do it????