VB Forum / General / July 2005

I'm at the end of my tether.
I'm a maintenance programmer who has been looking after VB6
applications for years.
Now the first VB.Net apps have arrived in the Pipeline and we need to

Hello.  I am trying to get VB6 to ask the user for his/her name.  I have created a public variable called MyName.  I want to generate an inputBox that can get the user's name.  If the cancel button is pressed, I want the user to be redirected to the intro form, or to the inbutBox ...

Can anyone determain why the following will not give me only yesterdays
security events from the eventlog. It seems to give me around 12 hours worth
of events and includes some from todays date? I want yesterdays events all 24
hours worth.

How can I implement a delay, of say 100 msec, in a subroutine? In the past I
have used a Do-Loop that looked at the GetTicCount function of the WinAPI
like below.
'Some code goes here.....

I have made a data structure and I would like to be able to compare them.
There must be a more simple way then comparing all the ellements of it. Is
there?
my structure.

All,
Problem:  Shell to a dos box and have it display on the entire screen by
default (like typing ALT_ENTER)
For instance, I have the following:

I have added a Date Time Picker date control to a project (in fact it is
displayed when I select a specific column in a datagrid) and I would like it
to expand when it receives the focus. The code below works for a ComboBox
(substituting the hWnd value) but it does not work work ...

I hope you can help me with a problem I have writing a vbs script rather
than a VB application. The scripts I'm writing will create a messaging
availability and deliverytime report.
I have a few problems:

I want to be able to find out the name of the control ( button, text box,
list box, etc ) under the mouse pointer, without having to code a
"Mouse_Move" for every control on the form.
I tried using the code below, but it does not work because as soon as the

My Visual Basic 6.0 project isn't working this morning. I try to run it from
the VB editor, and I get the message:
Compile Error: Can't find project or library
However, I have the right references in my project. They are (in order):

I saw this today on the microsoft site. Anyone here use it?
Is it better than the VB Package and Deployment wizard?
Thanks
Diarmuid

Also how to get to a specific topic in that chm file from VB? Thanks for
your help.

What is the best way to split up a path to a file C:\a\b\test.txt into
the Drivename, Pathname, and Filename?
Does VB6 have functions for this?
Stan Hilliard

I am stuck trying to migrate calls that previously used the
WaitForSingleObject API to the CoWaitForMultipleHandles api as detailed
in the msdn article
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncomser/html/c
omthread.asp>

      In one of my form i need to show the total hours:Mins involved for a
process by getting the user input as st. Date St.Time and End Date EndTime. I
used 4 dtpicker for these and i tried with many conditions but i couldnt get
it. I strongly believe that there should be some ...