VB Forum / General / September 2005

Is it possible in VB6 to pass an address of a function to another  
function(like C)?
Example:
Y=F1(x)

Ken,
When I add an OCX (Microsoft designed OCX) to my project VB won't allow it.
VB says that the "Component is not correctly registered". When I look at the
dll throught Dependency Walker I see the error message in red:

I would like to make a visual basic frame have a translucent effect. I know
that it is
possible to make forms translucent but I have not seen any code to make
another

I am getting some what frustrated trying to follow along with a book
called Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in
24 Hours, and there is a section of it
having to do with the DataList control pg. 103 that reads:

I have a small VB6 application which shells to a program that will
decrypt an encrypted file and then open the decrypted file in Word 2003.
The program was working without a problem until a few days ago when it
started giving runtime error 5121 when it tried to open the file. The ...

I have started using long (descriptive) variable names in my VB.Net (2003)
projects. I would like to know how to turn on typing assistance in the IDE.
I have seen somewhere that as you start to type, the predictive text (be it
variable name or a function name) starts to show up. ...

I have a  test program that permits display of the form (preview) at full size using a PictureBox on
the screen.  So far so good - it works.
What must I do to permit the user to enlarge the display if something is too small to be read and
they want enlarge it?

building dll in VB6
i want to run a sub automatically after a certain time that i specify, like
every 30 minutes.  The sub is in a class modole, not on a form. Sub is called
Public Sub PrfReset().  Is this possilble without a timer?  how can i get

I cannot find a way to print white text on a black background using the
Printer object (monochrome printer).
Basically I can't see how you set the text background colour.   I have tried
various combinations including, for example:

I recently replaced my computer and I an currently reinstalling my software.  
The installation wizard for Visual Studio 6.0 is asking for the product ID (3
+ 7 characters) but I cannot locate the product ID.  I have the software
licence and the 20 character PID Key but that ...

Guys,
I am new to API programming.  I am trying to write the information of a
property page of a file to another file.
For instance, the property page of a file has the information already

I was searching for something in this newsgroup and stumbled on an old thread
of the end statement usage. The thread banned the use of End, but didnt
explain throughly why. I learned VB6 only from reading code from a previous
programmer, so I inherited the use of end, which now I ...

I'd like to print my reports to PDF.
Now i'am using the 'Adobe PDF printer' driver (Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Pro) using
the VB printer object. (With special thanks to Mike Williams)
Everthing works fine, but this printer driver everytime displays a dialogbox

i understand that the randomize statement initializes the rnd() function
by experimenting i found that for each different argument i give the
randomize statement, a different sequence is generated by the rnd()
function, but for the same argument always the same sequence

I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this question but i'm hoping
someone may have experience with this matter.
I have developed a few software applications for a client in Visual
Basic 6/.Net. The client paid me an hourly rate to develop the