VB Forum / General / October 2005

I am new to creating DLL's. I'm trying to create a very simple DLL in VB6
using a class module in an ActiveX DLL project:
Public Enum logAccessType
   LogRead = 1

VB6 has in-built functions to convert numbers from decimal number
system to hexadecimal & octal number system (Hex & Oct respectively)
but how do we go the other way round i.e. how to convert numbers from
hexadecimal & octal number system to decimal number system?

Does anyone know how to intercept the min/max button press and prevent it
from doing the resize and than perform your own custom maximize ?
Dave

A VB6 Form has 4 OptionButtons named opHex, opDec, opOct & opBin. As is
evident from the names, the OptionButtons convert numbers from one
number system to another.
This Form also has a menu with the same 4 items as the OptionButtons

I am using the shell command to run the old DOS “net use” function to map a
drive to a network share. (If I could find a VB6/API way to do it I would but
I can’t so I am using the DOS net use option. Any alternative option to the
net use would be greatly appreciated.)

Is there a way to utilize a webcam from within a VB6.0 program to view
and/or take a snapshot.

Gentlemen, a simple question.
My MDI Child Forms are being printed close to the top edge of the paper.
How do I order the printer to write a couple of blank lines for a Top margin?.
Top, Scale Properties don't seem to work. Thanks. Guillermo.

I'm trying to pick tables out of a group of text files.  I wrote code that
would load the text file into a string, use InStr to find the location of
each <TABLE and </TABLE>, then use Mid to pick the data out.  It works great
... except with larger files (>3MB) I get an out of ...

Dear,
I have registered the prnadm.dll file and used the objects to create a
printer TCP/IP port and printer on a windows 2003 server.
Problem is that the user doesn't have sufficient privileges to execute

An off-topic question...
The "_files" are folders created by web browsers when saving web
documents. If the main file (.htm or etc) is deleted, these folders are
also deleted, right?

Do you know where I can find a database containing pre-entered data for
software product barcodes (including the Brand, Product name, Version &
Edition?
This needs to be compatible with Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (SP 5 & SP 6), as

If I have 4 values 1, 2, 3,  and 4 that I want to insert into TableA with
FieldA how can this be done with the basic INSERT INTO syntax?
INSERT INTO target [(field1[, field2[, ...]])]
VALUES (value1[, value2[, ...])

I have to get some buffers via com port, and then to separate numbers from
letters in that "string" (variant). What is the most "elegant" way to do it?
There should be (maybe) an array of strings and second array of numbers or
something like that, just to have control over numbers ...

hello mr and mrs or miss
I'm now learning vb programming and I have problem read BLOB from databse
can you tell me how can I read
thank

could anyone give me an algorithm that for every different string generates
a unique number
but the same number for the same string