VB Forum / General / August 2005

I know very little about Delphi, barely coding in it once.  A friend of mine
just said that he was having trouble passing strings between Delphi and VB,
and so I thought I'd research the matter.  I've found very, very little on
the subject and so I thought I'd ask if anyone out ...

I have a main form and an option form. Now I try to show option form
after click a button in the main form, for example, click a show
options button, moreover, I wanna set the focus on a text box in the
"option form". But every time I tried ****.setfocus , the focus still

Can someone give me some examples on how should I do to "access" a
report built in Crystal report using VB6?
I already have the report, all I want is using VB to preview and print
it out.

When I use $command in my program I can get inline file to be read in a
shortcut by my program by using the desktop shortcut properties as follows:
"C:\Program Files\MyProgram" "MyDataFile.rhf"
However, if I file associate the extention RHF to MyProgram and then double

Running VB6 and want a text entry field that has a transparent bg.  Noticed
that this isn't a problem for a label, but text boxes seem to have to have a
matt bg.
All I want is a flashing text cursor, no bg, so that the user knows that

My application writes a text data file to a folder on another computer. The
other computer is mapped by drive letter to the root (C) shared folder, eg as
G:. The network is simple peer2peer, shared root folders etc.
Immediately after restarting the application computer, and when ...

Is there a command to measure Hard Drive Temperature?

I'm using early binding to an ActiveX Server delacred
withevents to do an ansyc callback.  (per my previous
post)
What I would really, really like is a way to do it

I've got a huge .BAS library that I'd like to convert to a plain API-style
DLL. Building an ActiveX DLL isn't appealing since I'd have to change all
the calls in all my apps to object.function() style (which isn't a pleasant
prospect).

I'm looking for a component that will perform logging for VB applications.
Does anyone here use a commercial/free component which he can recommend?
Thanks
Moshe Eshel

Hi. I have to use Visual Basic 6 to export data to Adobe PDF file format. I
retrieved the data from MS SQL Server to DataGrid successful already, but I
cannot export the data to Adobe PDF file format. Here is my sample code
(Visual Basic 6). I really appreciate for your help.

Shell ("c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Seagate
Crystal Reports.lnk")
I used the above code to try and open Crystal reports but I'm getting an
error message which is as follows.

  I have create a VB6 program for our customer.
  However our customer have some data in the Thai language .
  My program did not display the data in the Thai language on the label
when i have executed it . How to make the VB 6 program multi-language ?

I'm new to using classes within VB.  I was trying to avoid using global
variables.  I created this class below.  The AddItem and count seem to work
fine, but I can't seem to figure out how to set it up so that I can return an
element from my HoldTypeList().

Im using VSI to make an installer for my project, but when it creates
the shortcut to the exe in the start menu the icon is wrong.  Im using
the same icon as the desktop shortcut which shows up fine, but instead
of the custom icon it shows the icon of a white paper with small grey