VB Forum / General / August 2005

I have an app in VB6 which I need to make single-instance only.  What methods could I use to make this happen?

Hi all.  I need to find some code to take a snapshot from a webcam.  The
camera works with windows movie  maker, so it should be compatible.  It's a
sony eyetoy. ;)
The picture needs to be put into a picturebox, "pictbox1" or into a jpg, or

A VB Form has a textbox along with 4 buttons 1, 2, 3 & 4. Now what I
want is when button 1 is clicked, the textbox should display 1. Next if
button 3 is clicked, the textbox should display 13 (& not 3) i.e. the
buttons pressed should append the respective numbers to the value that

A VB6 Form has a textbox which displays values depending upon user
input. I want to find out whether the text in this textbox has a
decimal point or not. To do this, I used the InStr function like this
(the textbox is named txtDisplay):

List:
I've moved from working in a single location to working at several
locations--two "real offices" and one roving laptop.
I'm finding VSS (and VB's interface) less than satisfactory.

I know where I went wrong.

I have alot of different AutoCad drawings, text files.. on a webserver.  I
am trying to create an application that opens these files by their
respective applications (autocad viewer, notpad).  However, I having a hard
time because when I try shell command with /o and file url ...

I create an instance of a com object with CreateObject, and would like to
know the version & date of the file. The component doesn't expose such
properties, and I would not know where the component resides.
Is it possible to do so using some sort of API functions?

It happened again!
VB6 sp5 msdn Oct 2001
If I put cursor on, say, Kill and hit F1 I get the help page. but the top
links just show placeholder boxes.

Say I wrote the following code:
dim ie as internetexplorer
set ie=new internetexplorer
I got an error saying that object doesn't support automation.

I have this form that when the user clicks the cmdSave button will export a
database to Excel.
I would like to know how to amke the cursor change into an hourglass when
they click this button and back again when the export is complete and the

Searching for the easiest way to read/update data to/from MS Access
database
I am writing a visual basic application that needs to read/update data
from an MS Access database.

I am using following string to effect a consultation:
sqlrel = "Select recpdv.rpdtcaixa, recpdv.rpvrsdoant, recpdv.rpvrdia,
recpdv.rpvrsaida, recpdv.rpsdoatual, cxempresas.empsigla, recpdv.rpvrsaidat,
recpdv.rpvrsaidacci," & _

I am trying to call a ATL COM in VB that takes unsigned int as a
parameter. But VB doesn't support this. Can anyone suggest how can we
do this??

I write an application which can let user define own date format to input,
How to convert the date string to date value with end-user defined date
format?
Example, User Defined Date Format as "dd/MM/yyyy"