VB Forum / General / August 2005

The change event for a standard combo box in vb6, seems only to fire if the
text box is changed and not when a selection is made from the dropdown using
the mouse.
How can I detect and act on an item selected from the dropdown?

I'm trying to activate a (normally running) program that may not have focus,
and send keystrokes to it.   Unfortunately I consistently get undesirable
behaviour with the code below -
if I use "AppActivate lnRet" the desired window is activated but there is a

I compiled a VB project and made a setup with my setup tool, but the
program doesn't run right under Windows 98.  I get the following
error:
"The MSVCRT.dll file linked to missing export NTDLL.dll-

I am trying to open .txt file on a webserver with the following code:
Shell "Notepad.exe /o " & "http://cweb1/Docs/Test.txt"
And I get the following error: "The filename, directory name, or volume
label synatx is incorrect.

A program written in VB6 recently crashed, and I was given a
"minidump" file.
How do I examine it? Its extension (.dmp) is associated, on my
computer, with Visual Studio .NET, but opening it with that just shows

my problem is wen i give the command print for which i have written the
code datareport1.print report, it prints the whole data report. it
prints each and everything dat is saved, whereas i want to print a
specific set of info for a particular client. For ex.

"Sure. I bought her CD. For the picture on the inside, mostly."
"Back home, we get into their brains," Joshua said. "We extend a very thin t
endril into their skulls, connect into their nervous system, and use them fo
r what we need."

I use Adobe OCX (ACROPDF.DLL) on one of my forms in my project to display a
pdf file.
Everytime I compile my project, I get the error, "unable to load file
frmDrawings.frm" wich is the name of the form containing the OCX, and when

I have an app written in VB on XP (SP2).  When installing on a certain
customer machine with XP SP2...they get a runtime error 360.
Any idea what might be causing this?

Dear vb expert, i got a code for convert number to number but it not good as
i want. For example:
1) "One hundred nineteen ringgit and ninety eight cents" change to "Ringgit
one hundred nineteen and ninety eight cents only"

I have Office 2003 on my computer.
I used to have Office 1997.
I have a program that I wrote using VB6.
It opens an Excel spreadsheet and puts some text data on it.

I have a VB6 Form where I want that when the user presses the 'Esc' key
on the keyboard, the textbox in the Form should become blank but the
Menu Editor doesn't list 'Esc' in the Shortcut drop-down list. Isn't
there any way by which the 'Esc' key can be made a shortcut key?

I want to build an application that will compare the contents of two folders
and identify any differences between the two (I.e. file changed, deleted,
added)
I have searched the web for some source code to build on as it would save a

A VB6 Form has, say, 4 buttons with the captions 1, 2, 3 & 4. When the
user clicks button 1, a label displays 1. When the user clicks button
2, the label displays 2, so on & so forth. Now I want to give my users
the option to use the keyboard as well to enter values in the label.

I need to use the mic to capture audio, replay it, or save it in a file.  
Also, being able to edit  it would be good.  Thanks.