VB Forum / General / July 2005

I am using the SSTab control, referenced as tabctl32.ocx
When I run my program's executable, one of my tabs is blank while other tabs
are fine.  They are also fine in the IDE (VB6). Any thoughts why I get this
and how to fix this?

Hello, Look through this snippet for my question...
Thanks.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
///// Visual Basic 6.0 /////
Sub getImage()

first sorry, I ask this question a few other forum but couldn't take any
answer...
problem : printout a .doc file to a .pdf file (with distiller)
1- I can override the "saveas" with sendkey method but with this method,

A collegue of mine and I have a matter that needs to be settled...
We have old VB6 code that uses a common SQL connection module and it's
used widely in all of our VB6 code.
We're now writing Windows services in VB.NET that needs to make a SQL

Does anyone know of a way to have the vb6 compiler return all of the errors
in a project being compiled instead of stopping on the first error it comes
accross?

Can anyone point me to any online info (or whatever) concerning the
following scenario?
I need for users to backup ONLY the settings they have created for my
application that they've installed - and, with that backup, create a .reg

Does anyone know how to check if a file is in use?  I use the following code
to check if a file exists:
   Dim fs As Object
   Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Does anyone know how to check if an instance of Excel is open?  If it is how
can you force any instance that my app opened up to be closed?  I'm having
problems where my app opens up Excel, creates and formats a sheet, then
closes it back up.  As long as I'm still in my app, it ...

   I am looking for some examples how to create installation/setup program.
I have a VB6 program that runs on a CDROM. I'd like to add another option
that will install and run from a hard drive. Thanks in advance.
Tieu.

I have a main form then a form that is loaded when the user clicks a button
and I want to draw into the picturebox's before the user does anything..
I have the code in the Form_Load but this doesn't work for some reason.   As
soon as I include a message box before the code, it ...

OK - so with this next line, you can open a file in Notepad:
Shell "notepad C:\test.txt", vbNormalFocus
Well, let's say I have another program that I want to launch, to open the
file - -

Several years ago I found a book on Visual Basic that helped me tremendously
in my coding skills, actually there were several. One of them stands out
"Professional Visual Basic 6 Databases" by Charles Williams. My question is:
Does anyone know if Charles has any intentions on ...

My App is blowing up on the below code, I have made changes and it is still
have errors below is the code
Name strOutfile As gstrTargetDir & "NT_856Out.txt"
Values from the variables are:

How can I test if an array is empty?
Dim aPriceArray() As Variant 'the Price Array, when returned, will have two
dimensions - the day in the transaction (1) and the Hour (2)
'Do somthing to populate array

I have created a simple DLL using VB 6.0 which connects to a SQL Server
7.0 database table. I intend to use this DLL in a web page.
After coding my application in VB 6.0, I clicked the "File" menu & then
selected "Make Retrieve.dll..." (where Retrieve is the Class Module) to