VB Forum / General / July 2005

I need to create a report by writing data to a file. When complete, the user
will print the file to a printer. The data string is quite long and will not
fit on the page when printed to a printer. Can the font of a file be altered
from vb6? Or can the font of the text being ...

I have a VB6 app running on Windows XP.  There is a lot of regular RS232
communication with an attached instrument.  Periodically the whole program
seems to freeze for 5 to 20 seconds (or more) and will eventually recover.
Have seen other programs temporarily freeze in Windows XP, ...

i want to write program in vb 6.0 for taking backup of data.
backend is ms-access 2000.pls help me
thanks
bitu

I've tried to make a search an AND OR query
eg
WHERE name='John' OR name='Paul' AND age='32'
However I keep getting the wrong results.  The results I get are every

I have a word doc template, that I need to populate with information from a
database. However, I need to serve this over the Internet to my sales staff.
The word document has Bookmarks, which, locally, I would normally use
CreateObject("Word.Application"), open the doc, and ...

Is it possible to read the mails from particulare folder other than
Inbox? I used MAPI but it reads only Inbox and not other folders. Any
ideas?
Madhivanan

I'm supporting an old VB6 application and need to get the path for the
following:
X:\Documents and Settings\<current_user>\Application Data
any suggestions?

Thanks to all who have helped with a previous post on this subject
especially to Ralph who I never thanked for his input, but I have a question
on the back of this previous post and that is:
How do I update a recordset once I have filled a datagrid with the data,

I used filecopy to copy a file, but the source file gets deleted afther the
file is copied. Is it something that vb6 filecopy command would do? I cannot
find where else that would delete the file.

Could someone gibe me a short line out (only) how to load and unload
dynamically parts of a VB6 application (form+modules) so that I can reduce
maximum memory consumption during runtime to a minimum, something like a
separate loadable one-form application replacing each child ...

I am planning to have a combo box that items are based on a MS Access
Database. Can you help me do the code?

I was wondering if there is a way to manipulate the EQ in windows media
player through code?   I came across this page (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sd
k/equalizersettingselement.asp
) and am interested in putting the gainlevel 1 ...

Does anyone know how I can read the name of the Outlook Mailbox that I'm
logged into using VB6.
I'm using the Outlook object 9.0 object library and for the life of me I
cannot find a object/property that returns this value.

I have been making changes to a VB program for the last 6 months.  This
program stores many values in the Registry.
When running on my development machine (XP Home), it runs fine.
When I create an installation disk (InstallShield) to install on other

I want to pass Err as a parameter to a sub not just its parts like
,Description, etc.
I call LogError(Err as ErrObject) and I get a type mismatch error.
Can anyone help?