VB Forum / General / August 2005

let's say i have a friend who has dialog box.
the ok button begins a process that loops through a table that has lots of
records and does some comparison stuff.
let's say this friend wants to click the cancel button to stop the process

I am having some difficulties using the Word Object to programmatically
change a Word document using VB6.  The following is my code in which I am
opening a standard Word document and trying to make it the active document:
(in the variable declaration main section [top of page] I ...

I just want to write a japanese or a chinese string (get from an excel
file) into a text file.
I get "????????".
I think that I should use strconv but it doesn't really help me.

Let's say my listbox1 contains 10 items and I would like to loop thru
listbox1 without having user selected on any item.  can I do that?  if so,
how can I do that because in my intermediate windows, I entered
listbox1.text, VB returns nothing.  thanks.

I have had a call from a head hunter that is looking for my experience in my
area BUT the client thinks they need at least three years of .net script.
Since I've been working in VB 3-6 how big of a difference will .net be? Am I
kidding myself that I should be able to just ...

I am looking to use VB to control my cameras - time delay photography, event
driven etc. - as well as developibng databases for myself and other
photographers to enable us to categorise, search and find images.
Q1 - I think VB plus Access is a good way to go?

Please tell me how we can obtain the real time data transfer rate for
displaying purpose during a vb6.0 downloader application is running.

I'm using the below code to open the common dialog and was wondering two
things
1) Is there a multi file common dialog that looks "nicer"? when I chose to
only open a single file the look and feel is very new but when I specify

A year or two ago I was looking at sending email from my VB6 app, and
someone told me they had a SendMail program which I could use freely.
However, I didn't have Winsock so this wouldn't work and I ended up
using BLAT which is brilliant for SMTP mail

hello, all,
i have a VB 6 app with a StatusBar control (MSCOMCTL.OCX SP4) on the
MainWindow form.
the control does not extend to the right edge of the window...during design

I intend to get a reporting tool for my vb6 and vb.net programs and i am
having some diffculty deciding which would be a good reporting tool as i do
not have any experience with reporting tool. HOpe you guys can provide me
with some suggestion. Many thanks!

In Excel VBA, how can I tell what folder the excel file is in?
Thanks
Diarmuid

I've tried sheduling a task in a vbscript and it always creates a task that
runs as the local system account. How do I script a scheduled task running as
a network/domain user?

Sometimes when i run the program but when i click my EXIT button in the VB
form, it seems some form still not unload and therefore the program did not
return to STOP state but still run even i quit the main form.
Anyone can advise the method to check if which form still not unload ...

I have a dll that runs fine from an exe created with VB.  But if I try and
run the VB project in the IDE, it crashes.  Stepping thru the dll code, the
crash happens when I exit the called (dll) function.   Here's how the dll
declares the function: