VB Forum / General / August 2005

I am creating an object of excel to create the data to populate an MSchart
graph.  After creating the instance I set the object.visible property to
false, but on some machines that the application is distributed to are still
seeing Excel open and load the spreadsheet.  Is there ...

In my application i need the user to select 2 years and 2 dates(without the
year!)
e.g. 1990 - 2003
AND

I am writing a program in VB6 that
collects billing information.
It collects user names from a file
created by an instrument.  The files

How can I do a binary file compare in Visual basic 6.0?

Can I display a txt file in the Internet Explorer?

+-- Thief_

I am using VB6, SP5 to write a program that allows the user to create tables
in an existing Access database, but also needs to be able to delete unused
tables. I am using this code to create new tables:
Set rsCompany = DB.Recordsets("Select * FROM Company")

I am relatively new to Visual Basic, but I am trying to create an
application in VB6 with multiple forms that all have the same look.  For
instance, the same font style and color, and the same background color for
the form.  I see in the form wizard a place to select a profile, ...

i built dome dialog that can show the progress and make some actions.
when im activating it, and do not touch any screen i can see the progress
bar progress and evrything work nice.
but when im open a new window (my computer for example)

On my form, I'm using a PictureBox control as a container. There are various
text boxes/picture boxes/etc. on the PictureBox. Is there code that will
save the contents of the PictureBox (just as it would appear to the user on
the screen) to a bitmap image?

A VB6 Form has around 30 buttons & the style of all are set to
Graphical but when the Form is run, I find that some of the buttons
look more depressed (or 'pushed-down') than the rest i.e. the thickness
of all the buttons aren't the same. This isn't giving a good look to

Instead of using the Forms 2.0 components in my application, I would like to
use a RichTextBox for unicode input - not only because I don't need unicode
buttons, frames or other controls, but also because the Forms 2.0 components
cannot be redistributed.

Got a problem - need to check something whenever a particular window
is live - i.e. it's top bar turns from grey to  blue, specifically
when another app has been minimised and Windows decides to switch to
the form in question or the user selects the window by clicking on its

I've got a complex Type ... End Type data structure consisting of
fixed-length strings, booleans, dates, integers, and some arrays of the
same - all together each 'record' of this type is exactly 2030 bytes (there
are no variable length strings in the type). Something like this:

Here's the situation:
Some dude working in my company needs a program that does this-
-    There are over a 100 PDF files in some folder on a Mac Machine
-    The program to be written is supposed to invoke Adobe Acrobat

Shalom everyone,
I try to read/write from specific addresses in memory (write to address-
0x160 and read from addresses - 0x161, 0x162) in which a digital in card is
placed. I want to read the card every mili second, and act according to the