VB Forum / General / September 2005

I'm creating a presentation program to be distributed on CD.  Works well,
but now client wants option to allow viewer to mute the audio on their
system if desired.
I'd like to get the current volume level, save it, set the level to zero,

I have an app that displays a splash screen then the main app.
I have noticed lately that when it starts an hourglass appears then
disappears then my app seem to
go on it's way of splash timing out then main app apears

Does anyone know how to respond to the horizontal scroll messages sent by
Microsoft mice (the ones which allow you to move the wheel to the left and
right)?
Regards,

Last week I decided I needed a home inventory program. I first scanned
through my set of magazine cover-mounted CDs and DVDs - often a source
of some freeware, or full versions that the manufacturers want to use
as a hook to persuade tryer-outers to upgrade.

I am trying to run a setup.exe which was created in VB 6 on a machine running
Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server Service Pack 1.  I get the
error that the operating system is not the correct version for the setup.exe.
What am I doing wrong?

Ok, I've searched and searched and searched and can only find one
answer to this but I can't use that soluction.
I know the Tab key can only be intercepted in the KeyPress event and
not the KeyUp or KeyDown events. I know that all the controls on the

Is it possible to detect if a given drive letter is a DVD drive?
The api's that I am finding are only returning type 'CDROM' for both DVD and
CDROM drives.  I need to differentiate between the two.
Any solutions/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm having a hard time with a project and will explain what I did
first, which had led to the error:
First I've created a connection to the NWind.mdb Access file with the
DataEnvironment1 from Visual Basic 6 in the "DataProject -

I need to create a winsock enabled component, but without a GUI.  I
therefore cannot use VB's included Winsock control.  If my understanding
is correct, the only way to achieve my goal is my using the winsock API
directly.

I'm a drag and drop beginner, I am wondering if this is possible. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA,
Mike

Is hotmail down because i cannot get my email?
Thanks

Could someone help me with regards to a Print Screen button?
Ideally, I'd like the Users to be able to click a button and then a
screen print, print to their default printer.
If possible, only a screen print of the current form?

Is there anyway to decompile a exe?
We deployed a new exe in production and one of the guys who did the work
left the company  and he left the code(project) checked out from sourcesafe
and the destop team wipe the drive. I have the latest exe but the code is

I get a small question. How can I comment a block of codes without do it
line by line in VB?
Thanks in advance to anyone can help me

I have developed a Visual Basic program that uses the Snapshot Viewer Control
(SNAPVIEW.OCX).  The data was exported from an Access report into a .snp
file.  I have two questions:
1)  I am using the PrintSnapshot method to print the reports.  Is the some