VB Forum / General / August 2005

Hi Folks - some of you will know I have been learning VB6 on the fly for the
last two weeks (whilst supposedly on vacation <lol>) and managed to work
most of the bugs out of my test application. That was on a work PC overseas.
Before I came home I copied the vbp for the app to ...

Folks,
I've got a database with Zip codes.  This also includes the latitude and
longitude values stored as singles (lat 42.17444, long -70.88417).  I've
been given the task of when a user enters a zip value, it will also display

I'm using MDI forms.  I want to add a timer to the MDIForm1 that will
count minutes of inactivity and log a user off after five minutes or
so.  How can I detect user activity on a MDI Child form without adding
code to all the Child forms?

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I had been putting a shortcut in the user's (not the system)
startup to cause a utility to run at startup.  It was working fine.
I recently relocated the executable to a new location and replaced the
previous shortcut with a new one.  

Hello --
Can someone tell me where I can find code examples for hiding/graying
out and showing menus?
The menu was built with the Menu Editor.

VB6.  I have the task of reading in an XML document.  It has many
levels of indentation (for lack of a better term).  I'm planning on
reading this into a class that I'll create, then I can use that class
to access sub-elements and things.  It's not a huge amount of data, but

I am running a VB6 app on a Win98SE machine.  In the app I have a
MSFlexGrid control on the main form.  In the load event I put the form
in the top of the z order with a call like
SetWindowPos(Me.hWnd, HWND_TOP,...)

Ok. Is it possible to write a "wrapper" in VB6  to start and control several
applications?
I want to start an application (if not running) or to maximize the
application (if minimized), by pressing a single button (eg #1)

Is there a simple way to create clones (duplicates) of form and class
module instances in VB6? I could write a Clone() method for each
form/class that simply bulk copies all of its member data to a new
instance. However, I am hoping that there is a more elegant solution,

I have several variables that are read in from a file and I need to make
them publicly available to several class_modules. What is the best way to do
this? I tried to make a variable that was Global in my form code but it's
not readable in the class_module ideas?

Does anyone knows how i can retrive programmatically all the
properties that recieved from the query by
"select * ..."
for example i want to know all the properties that recieved by the query :

could someone please point me to a good resources with code samples on how to
use treeview activex control?  I couldn't seem to find a good resource
anywhere.  
Also, can I bind regular object with collection to a datagrid control?  I

I was wondering if there is any piece of code in the web that i could
steal some ideas to perform the following:
I want the user to open an ASCII file of the following format:
19990305 34.5546 29.34556 ...... etc

All,
Not sure where to post this so as you see I posted it in the generel
section...
We (me and some other developers) had a discussion on how to implement the