VB Forum / General / September 2005

My aplication uses more than 15 items in a couple menus.
Where can i find free menus example for vb 6.0?
Thank you

I am writing a VB6 app and want to know if its possible to program a switch
so if I run the app "myapp.exe /switch".  Can this be done and if so can
someone point me to an example of how I would run certain code based on the
switch chosen.

I have created a calculator in VB6. The calculator also has a Inverse
button clicking which the inverse of the no. will be displayed. Now the
problem is suppose I want the inverse of 6. The calci correctly
computes the reciprocal of 6 i.e. 0.166666666666667 but when I again

I have a VB6 Calculator in which I have given users the option to input
values using their keyboard (apart from the buttons on the calculator).
I also want that when the user presses any number (or any of the
operators like '+', '-' etc.)  on the keyboard, that particular command

I am having problems using the shell command to write the output of a dos
command to a text file.
I would be really grateful if someone could tell me why this doesn't produce
the required Test.txt file?

When I packge a VB6 app using PDW, it says "the dependency file of
scrrun.dll is found, but out of date. To proceed ..."
How can I update this dependency file?
Thanks

I have 2/different MDB database but in both the database I have a column
called "company" and
now I want to loop true this 2/columne to see if there is missing any
company in the both tables, if' so the

I want to make a midi file play repeatedly, how do I achieve this in VB 6
using MMControl?

I have a loop thats supposed to check if a window is closed:
While laskutusohi = False
Wend
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A client app launches an ActiveX EXE that displays a form. But when the user
closes the form, the exe remains as a process in the task manager.
How can I terminate the exe once the users closes the form?
Thanks,

VB6 IDE crashes occasionally and always when I launch Windows Explorer.
This only happens in one project. I have other project that is very
similiar with crashing one but it works fine.
When I load the project and after that launch Explorer, everything works

I am using the shell command to print an excel spread sheet however I am
having a problem when the file name has a space in it.  Here is my code:
Shell Excel.exe /p C:\issue log.xls
The error I receive is C:\Issue.xls could not be found.  Is there a way to

I'm doing a check for an already opened instance of a VB6 application...  I
only want one instance running at a time.  My check works, but I would also
like to bring the currently running instance to the front of all the other
dialogs.

Anyone can help me on this? Because i'm using combo to list the data
example:
Project/ Decription
Test1 - Testing

I am on a ship in the oil business, and have internet access via satelite
link. I want to monitor the status of the link, and thought doing that by
using Ping in a VB application. I am using Visual .Net 2003.
I have found an example in MSDN involving ICMP, but it seems a bit "big ...