VB Forum / General / August 2005

Need to develop an application using VB 6 that has Windows 2000 look
and feel - independent of the user's OS (XP).
Any suggestions?

Sorry in advance for posting the same problem twice.  I was unclear in my
description of the problem.
I installed .net yesterday.  Now when I go into VB6, my fonts appear in
itallics in the editor window.  I can change the font, but I can't figure out

I am using Microsoft VB Regular Expressions 5.5 as a Reference in one of my
applications. It uses the vbscript.dll file. On some PCs where my application
is installed, a version 5.1 of the VB Script DLL is installed. During install
of my application, I want to detect the version ...

OK, can anyone explain this little lot (from VB's Immediate window with my
comments starting ')    ?
printer.Font.Name = "Symbol"
?printer.Font.Name

I need to add an index of controls to a form so i can use it as
myctrl(x).count ... or other properties or method
Any Ideas?
Thanks

I installed .net today on my computer.  After the installation, the fonts in
my editor window shows up in itallics and I can't figure out how to get it
set back.  I can change the actual font but I'm not sure how to change the
style.  Any suggestions?

I've an ocx project. I've made no changes. I've a copy of the ocx in a
separate folder and I'm re-building the ocx against this. However, I'm
forced to do a project compatibility build.
The folder structure is as follows

I'm trying to read in a text file, one line at a time,add a space in
front several different characters and save the change,line is of
indeterminate length,character locations are unknown. With Replace I
can to one character at a time with out too much trouble,but thats only

Pls. help me solving this problem
When I'm trying to get the column width in MSHFlexGrid,
(MSHFlexGrid.ColWidth(i))  it returns -1, How could I get the real column
width?

First off i apologise as i am new to VB, so this might be very simple.
I've made a script to map a set of network drives and then rename them to
mask their actual locations. The script works fine on Windows XP (SP2) but
fails on Windows 2000 (SP4) both OS's are running Windows ...

I doing a small application in VB and I have to print out some reports
simulating as invoice. My db is in Ms-Access and I want to design the
reports in crystal report, but my question is if later I install the
application on a pc without VB and crystal report installed, does it

hi.i am trying to add an item from one listview to another(i need to
add an image too).when i select an item from the listview and click on
a button that item shud be added to another listview and should be
deleted in the first listview.if i select all than all the items shud

I have a form, which has a certain background color (Color A). On to that
form, I added a frame (but could be a picture box too). Onto that frame, I
added a checkbox. The frame has a background color of (Color B). I'd like a
programatical way to set the backround color of the ...

in myu application i have to show a file copy progress dialog and i
have to show file copy animation in it, i used a control which was used
to run an avi, but its giving OCX error on other PCs which hav'nt
installed VB, and due to some restrictions i cant distribute that OCX,

 I have a backup routine that moves the 'Source' dir/files to another
drive.  What I am looking to do is:
Count the subdirectories in a specific directory and if it exceeds a certain
# then delete the oldest...