VB Forum / General / August 2005

I'm looking for a way (addin?) to convert a picture to a thumbnail,
basically like Frontpage can do.

I need to display so many records from database to listview. (maybe > 10000
records). Thus, I want to control no. of record retrieved from database and
display in listview. e.g. display 20 records in listview and provide a combo
box which show page No. e.g. page 1 to page 100. ...

How can I determine how much memory my VB6 application occupies?
I'm looking for some VB-code (using API-functions I guess) to integrate
in my appplication because for some reason a certain form uses extremely
much memory according to the task manager.

trying to change permissions via shell(cacls) but encountered an annoying
problem:
Call Shell("cacls " & polku & " /e /r " & """GEO\Domain Users""", 0)
   MsgBox "ok"

I have a tiny problem:
I wanted disable my MDIForm to avoid UserIneraction while loading
(ok, maybe not best practice).
Is there a way to activate (make it mdiform.activeform) a child-form

Folks:
I am a windows Network Administrator.  Scripting (with VB6) is a technique
that I have recently discovered to enhance my network admin. tasks.
I am interested in using VBA (along with other applications like: Visio,

I've been installing Oleaut32.dll as a part of setup for years without issue.
Now that my development machine has been updated to SP2 (win xp) with all
the latest windows updates, I'm getting an error saying that Oleaut32.1
failed to self register (the installer is InstallShield ...

I need to detect whether PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer is installed on a
system and then offer a link to install it if necessary.
How do I detect if it's available?
Am I in the right group for this discussion?

How do I close an outside app if I have the hwnd?
Thanks

     Is there anyone know how to insert a multiple line of string into
stringwriter.write where it will show like this
     name : test
               test1

I have the need to isolate the decimal portion of a number and evaluate it.
if the entry is 3.7, is there a way to evaluate only the .7?
wb

i'm trying to add some web-style interfaces to my application.
originally, i started by loading HTML pages into the webbrowser class, using
JavaScript to make changes to the DOM.  The UI code was taking a long time
to write, so i decided to change tacts.

I have pulled together a VB.net project that hooks the keyboard (Ref. Paul
Kimmel's hooking program) and allow the user to send "mouse right clicks" via
the SendInpuut function (mouse emulation works fine).  I am also trying to
make this project capable of "Rearrange the ...

using the following code to get the value of a combobox on FORM1 into a
datareport.  ComboBox has a list of years....2005....to...2050.
using the following....the datareport label only displays the first value
even though another year is selected...

I am writing a Visual FoxPro application and am automating a
third-party application that offers a COM interface.  Unfortunately,
the company that wrote this third-party application does not
have a list of the enumerations used in their system.  As a