VB Forum / General / September 2005

I've just set a label to use my TrueType font in my VB6 app and it looks
horrible.  If I use this same font in say Adobe Photoshop it looks great.
It appears that VB6 does give a nice aliased look to the font that is why it
looks poor.

My VB6 executable file has significantly increased in size and I'm having a
difficult time figuring out where the increase is coming from.  Are there
any tools out there that would help in analyzing what controls, etc. make up
the size of an executable file?

Hi group,
I want to display long integers with nice formatting e.g.
instead of 10000
I would like 10,000

i just created a DLL with the following;
Inside a Class Module;
Option Explicit
Function GetDefaultPrinter() As String

I have a textbox array that gives 20 textboxes on a form.
I add data to the textboxes by entering say A tab, h tab, V tab etc.
I have data validation on so that I check the data as it is entered to
ensure it a letter.

Does VB support any kind of conditional compilation, like the C language
preprocessor #ifdef ? I need to make different versions of a project.
Thanks

I have a VB6 application that works fine when I'm logged onto the PC
(and our network) as a power user, but won't run when the normal user
logs on. I've traced the problem to this line in the form load
procedure:

I have been trying to work out how to get my Http code to go to a webcontrol
and automatically bring up a paypal checkout page.
I can acheive this by putting in the below code on http, but doing it from
VB im a bit stumped!

I generally write programs in FPD 2.6 , now i have to write a small program
that would check the availabe disk drive on the system and if its low it
should notify me with an alert . As couple of times we have run short of the
disk space & did'nt know till the things started ...

How can I open a drive letter for raw reading?
hDiskFile = CreateFile(
       "\\.\I:",
       GENERIC_READ,

I have been asked to look at a db project, I'm a rusty programmer from
early VB6 days. Plus the mind is getting weaker by the day....
The project consists of multiple ACCESS databases being controlled by a
number of VB code programs.

Hello, I have a TabStrip control on my form. Within that TabStrip I have a
Frame control and within that Frame I have another Frame control. My problem
is that the caption for the second Frame is in a very large font and it's not
displaying the full caption. I haven't found  any ...

I have a control (text box) on a form listed 25 times as a control array.  
Each input box only requires inserting one letter.  I use the sendkeys
"(Tab)" to move to the next box.  However...if the user hits the Shift
key...the tab goes backwards (up) instead of moving down to the ...

JJust wanted to thank all the people here who have helped me with fixing
errors I hd with my project well because of that help the database
application I've made runs great.
Thanks I couldn't have done it with out the people on these boards helping

I would like to enhance error handling in my application by adding the
name of the procedure where an error occurred. Searching the 'net has
not produced a whole lot, just Err.Source. But even that will not
return the name of the procedure, just the project. I can set