VB Forum / General / August 2005

1 - I have a project in VB 6 , on the Main Form I have Menu items, I have a
second From1 and it also has its own Menu items.
What I am trying to do, if the user minimize Form1, I need the Main Form
Menu items to Show, is this possible?

I feel pretty stupid about this but have not come across this problem until
now.
With VB6:
I need to copy the contents of a folder (including subfolders)  to another

How to I set my program up as a service?
I wrote a very simple program that simply rotates log files when they
get to a certain size and I'd like it to run as a service so I don't
have to log in to start it.

I want to write a utility function (such as to do statistical
calculations) that could be "called" by any program running on
Windows. The caller would pass the name of the file containing the
data and some parameters and my utility would do some calculations and

with a vb6 dll project open in an instance of vb6ide
I'm creating the functionality a bit at a time
I add some code then make the dll
then in a vba ide running in another app, i reference and use the dll to

Anyone know if it's possible to save the most commonly used controls to your
visual basic toolbox? I don't want to have to manually add them each time I
open the VB6 IDE.
Thanks

I need a trace tool to see what functions are being called from my program
to a dll, I know that FlexTrace does that but I don't want to write the
symbols trace file, and I don't have all the Dll functions.
There out there a tool that can hepl me to see what functions in a dll is

I want to create a listbox that shows icons.  "jpg or bmps etc"    which have
the icon and Name under it   example     and access icon  with ACCESS  under
it
i am looking for something like novells  nalmenu   i am trying to make a

In my word processor, I have a custom Print window to print the rich text
box's text. The code when the user clicks the Print button on my Print
window is this:
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Continuing with my datareport experience. I am now wondering if it is
possible to insert images
A bit more background first
I have an Access table containing quiz/test questions some of the questions

I am using VB 6.0 SP5.
Questions
1: How can I launch Word on a users computer.
I am using Office 2000, Client will be using Office 2003.

I have provieded Public Property Let and Puplic Property Get in my ActiveX
vb code
public property let mfilename(filename as string)
   myfilename = filename

I'm having problems traversing an Outlook.Items collection in VB6.  I'm
currently running in Windows XP Pro SP2 and MS Outlook 2003.  VB6 is patched
up to SP5.
Here's the problem:  I've got an application that goes through the inbox

with the built in Common Dialog - - let's say I have 5 or 6 levels of
filetypes an app can open
When the user changes the file type - how can I get the matching extension
to change in the filename textbox of the Common dialog?

I have a VB6 application that has problems occasionally not finding a mapped
drive, or after 'x' amount of time fails to see the mapped drive.  I think
this is a permission issue, but don't know for sure.  Anybody else seen
problems like this?  Any potential solutions?