VB Forum / General / July 2005

I'm trying to determine if a flag has been set AsDirty or not.  If it isn't
set to AsDirty, I want to exit the sub.  When the flag is 0, I can't seem to
get the test working correctly.
Can someone see the errors of my ways?  See code below.

I have an app that opens a Word document, prints it and then closes.  The
problem I am having is if I close word immediately the document does not
print.  Is there a way to check if Word is busy and wait until Word is not
busy printing and then close it?

I have a project that everytime I look at the references the "Microsoft Data
Formatting Object Library 6.0 (SP6)" is checked.  It is not needed in the
project, but keeps popping up like a bad penny.  What is this used for?

 Can anyone provide me a link to this SendInput Function for mouse click. I
found couple examples but none explained clearly (mostly for keyboard input)
Thanks in advance.
Tieu

Would anyone have an idea why the change event for a combo box isn't
triggering when I change values?
Thanks for your help,
Dan

could someone please tell me how do I detect if there is a mouse wheel just
scrolled?

If I load from a web address, it pulls up instantly. If I try and pull up a
page off my local drive it takes a good 15 seconds or so before the hour
glass goes away and I can scroll the page.
Any suggestions on how to speed things up?

  I need to show a from from another activeX dll in my current
projects SDI form. I was able to show that form using "SetParent" API.
  But, I have a toolbar in my SDI form. When I am displaying the child
form, the toolbar is getting covered by the child form. So, the toolbar

I wrote a program which accepts binary data on the serial port in chunks of
bytes, such as 4 + checksum.  I have a user in Japan who is getting a lot of
garbage because of the different character set, DBCS or unicode or whatever.
Is there a simple way to convert the data so that ...

We have a component with a method where we go through the "Controls"
Collection of a form and assign each control to variable:
Sub Make(frmForm as Object)
 Dim I as long

I'm using an Adodc connection to my records on a database called
datPrimaryRS I need to be able to create Reports from this record set.
So I made a DataReport but had to also make a DataEnvironment for it to work.
However it doesn't work the way I need which is when the the ...

I have an ActiveX Exe with one MultiUse class. All other classes are
PublicNotCreateable.
I have a module with a public collection. When I create an instance of the
multiuse class I add it to the collection, including a key that identifies

I'm using Winsock to retrieve some data from a website.  Occasionally my app
and the VB IDE will crash without showing an error of any description (not
even an XP access violation).  The whole lot will just vanish.
Can anyone offer any advice about how to identify/solve the problem.

Set dbAccess = New ADODB.Connection
strCon = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
        "Data Source=" & App.Path & "\db.mdb;" & _
        "Persist Security Info=False"

The very short version:
I would like to write my own version of msgina useing vb6 or modify the
exiting msgina.
the thing to modify is the appiearence and to add few functions.