VB Forum / General / August 2005

in my program i resize a flexGrid object, it runs well if i run it in debug
mode (using PLAY on vb project) but it doesnt resize the object if i run the
.exe. Can you help me??
this is the code i use to resize

Has any body checked out a good 64 bit programming language ?
There is C++ 2005 ??? Have to start from scratch on C++ though.
It doesn't seem that MS is going to have a VB com in 64 bit.
I hate .net, it is too slow, sluggish, VB com is good enough for me.

the data type of the field is general text.
You know the first one that automaticaly
displays the access.

I made a APP using VB6, and package it in a Windows-98 PC. A customer
installed this APP in his naked PC (with only Windows XP Operation System, no
other software installed). When he runs the APP, he got an error message
"Initialization Error -- DLL not registered.", then the ...

Is it possible to set an environment variable using VB such that once the VB
code has finished running the variable could be seen from the command prompt
when you type "SET"?
Ta

I need to programmetically register some Dlls and Ocx files using
Regsvr32.exe. I am using Install Shield 7.0 for writing this program.
I need to hide the message that usually comes but I also need to trap
the return value to varify whether the registration actually was

I would like to create a short cut event and bind it to my MDI form.  
however, I don't want to use the menu editor because this feature has to be
hidden from user.  Let's say, each time user clicked on "ctrl" + "l", it's
going to unload whatever is in existent and load form xyz ...

I have a question. I have to make a CRC16 checksum for a string. Does
anybody have some working code for that or can somebody tell me what it is
and how I can make it.
Thanks for your help so far.

I am converting my MS Access Report to VB6 thru Data Report. I use the
Detail_Print Event on Access for me to draw a vertical line like this:
Private Sub Detail_Print(Cancel As Integer, PrintCount As Integer)
Dim LngMaxHeight As Long

For Question on following article
SAMPLE: RESFILE.EXE Stores Any File Type in a Resource File
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I'm not certain that this the correct newsgroup for this
question,although it is for a VB6 programme I'm trying to  make, a
small app to calculate the new X/Y
coordinates of a point after rotating it . Input would be X centre , Y

I just wonder if anyone use datareport can tell me the usage of Keep
Together in
datareport.
I want to keep from Group Header, Details to Group Footer together.

Hi There,
I've got a rather large VB6 program that has about 10 ActiveX controls
and other special DLL's.  One of the DLL's holds customized reports and
is updated often.  I wrote an updating program which checks for new

for several years i used the following code without any trouble. But it
seems that under VB.NET and with Excel 11 COM, it has some issues.
here is the code :
  Public xlApp As Excel.Application

Looking for a clue here - this is completely bizarre!
I have a program (VB6, of course) that has an MSFlexGrid on one of the
screens. Before adding any data, I set the .Redraw property to False.
Data is then added to the grid with the .AddItem method. After the