VB Forum / General / August 2005

I have wrote a command prompt program
and it would be run on every 3mins
so i am using following api
Private Declare Function SetTimer Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal

I have a file utilities program that uses the FileListBox to display
the files a user is working on.  I've set up the app so that if the
form containing the FileListBox loses focus, the FileListBox refreshes
itself just in case the user deleted or added any files in some other

Folks,
I'm using the Shell, passing it the path and exe of an application.  When it
tries to run it gives an runtime error 13, type mismatch.  Any ideas?
Dim strCmd As String

could someone please tell me what is the method to copy existing file from
one location to another?  and how about deleting files?

I've some customers of mine who have problems with an ActiveX that
seems not to be registered (error 429). How can I determine if an
ActiveX is registered on a system?
Thanks.

is there a universal way to disable all msg and popup all together, even if
there were message box supposed to pop up?

I've some customers of mine who have problems with an ActiveX that
seems not to be registered (error 429). How can I determine if an
ActiveX is registered on a system?
Thanks.

I've got the following;  why does it have a problem at the Put?
  Dim FNum         As Long
  Dim Rpt8         As String
  Dim RptDesc      As String

I would like to search a string using regular expressions.  I know there
is such a function for WSH, but I cannot find the equivalent for VB6.  I
want to avoid having to load the string into a database just to use LIKE
in a SQL statement, since there are a LOT of strings, and some ...

Vb Veresion 5.0 [win 2k professional]
? How can I access the add-in Class Builder ?
Tried Add-inns > Add-ins manager > ticked the check box on the list
response 'no can do' do you want to remove it from the list

I have a small VB code which retrives the table names from the access DSN.
my code is something like this
Set objRs = objConn.OpenSchema(adSchemaTables)
If objRs("TABLE_TYPE") = "TABLE" or objRs("TABLE_TYPE") = "TABLE" Then

How to format a -ve number to ()?
for example -1200 to (1,200)?
Thanks.

I need to combine 2 (or more) MS Word documents into 1 single document by
VB6 code.
How do I do that?
Thank you

Hey folks,
I've got an existing VB 6 application that we're trying to setup on a new
development machine.
When we put the VB project on the new machine and try to compile it we get

How can I detect if a file has Arabic or Chinese characters, so
I can skip it while copying ?
if I do this
Text1.Text = Dir("f:\test1\*.url")