VB Forum / General / September 2005

How do I access command line arguments from a standard module?

Another beginner question I'm afraid.
I've created an exe that is called from within another app (acad) via a lisp
command (startapp "my.exe")
This shows a form which then interacts with the acad app.

Seldom, I think why the file can be broke when power is off. Can You explain
me about it?

Is there such thing as a mouseover in VB?
My app uses images for buttons rather than the standard grey ones and I'd
like to be able to change the image to a semi-highlighted one if they move
their mouse pointer over it.

Silly question I think, but I'm using the NTService control to make a
VB program into a Win2K service, and it all works perfectly well for
now, but when I see the list of services, my service has no
description.  Does anybody know how to set the description of the

Do I create something in VB that allows my VB app's data files, ini files,
etc to have my kind of icon rather than a standard windows icon (if my
extension is .duf or something like that) or is this done in my installer?
I use InnoSetup.

I am having all kinds of trouble with referencing EXCEL from VB 6.  I had a
version of the program that worked fine. Along the way, I changed something
as a experiment and now I cannot get it back.
The EXCEL reference that seemed to work referenced like this:

 I need to have a CR/LF character at the end of my writeline VB6). Do I
somehow put the octal code for CR/LF at the end of the format of the
mdlInit.OutputINT string? a VbCRLF is NOT what I want. If you look at the
file in e.g. Notepad you would see the single character 'square ...

   my question is if there it is possible to catch all exceptions in one
place in VB6, as it's possible in vc++, c# etc... or only in the body of a
procedure or function.
thank you for yours answers.

Is it possible to have the contents of Windowlist (the list of the open
files in the menu) in an array.
Or a String.
Thanks

I have many vb6 apps that crunch data, parse large text files mostely.
Everything works fine, but when I crunch large files, the cpu stays at 100%
and the application form cannot be moved.
I see other applications that take a lot of resources, but the form can be

I'm a newbie in VB.Net programming and i'm trying to download files from
http using some BITS code that i'm trying out.  the code looks as follows:
Dim myBits As New Manager
       Dim currentJob As Job

Hi, i am using VB6 and trying to connect to a ACCESS database using the data
object. when i set the relevant properties (database name etc), i run into
problems when setting the record source property. I get a error along the
following lines:

I am using an sqldatareader and trying to add items from a sql select
statement to a listview control. All columns from sql select statement are
added into listview except one column that is a sql datetime data type. I get
a narrowing conversion error when I attempt to add this ...

I have created menus at design time using menu editor.
(File Ctrl+I) ,
(Open  Ctrl+O) etc ...
Now I want to change whatever Short cuts i have provided.