VB Forum / General / October 2005

I have a number of constants such as (abbreviated list):
   Public Const SCALE_0132PLANS = "Plan 1/32""=1'-0"""
   Public Const SCALE_0116PLANS = "Plan 1/16""=1'-0"""
   Public Const SCALE_0332PLANS = "Plan 3/32""=1'-0"""

Surprisingly, i cant seem to find a simple and descent ADO-Access example.
There are tons of stuff on the web but, especially the connection strings,
are a bit different from each other.
Are there any good links / suggestions regarding connection strings (should

I'm working with VB6 SP6.
I need to change rights on a directory.
When VB runs the GetFileSecurity function, It returns 0 and I get the
"Unable to Get the File Security Descriptor" message box.

I am using an ODBC Access database along with Visual Basic.  I have created a
Header/Detail screen....   My question is: After creating the Header Record,
I need to retrieve the Record ID (rec_id is auto-number) from this Header.  
With SQL I just use IDENT_CURRENT.  Is there an ...

I start the class tomorrow and was wondering if VB6 is similiar to Infopath
in Office 2003? Any information about how I should approach this class will
be very deeply appreciated. Thank you!!!

How do I make a form underlying another form have focus without sending the
uppermost form to the back? When the uppermost form is loaded I want the
underlying form to get the focus with the second form still on top.
FM

Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial
products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all
every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to software
piracy, and faulty protection programs.  Shareware developers look for

I have a query that will show results from three tables:
select num_abs, num_ref, registro,
paciente.nome as pac_nome, nasc, paciente.data, data_lancado,
unidade.nome as unid_nome, mne, cor_padrao,

What is the best way to take to string dates and times...
ie.,  10-Oct-2005 10:30:16 AM and 11-Oct-2005 2:17:54 PM
and then determine the number of seconds between these two dates?
I must be missing a simple function to do the conversion...  but I sure

I have a simple task to print a String as a hexadecimal representation, but
I cannot find any reference in VB 6.0 help. I have a source string "ABC" and
I would like to get a result string "414243" (what actualy means sequence of
single characters "&H41", "&H42" and "&H43"). Is ...

Hell group
Can someone tell me if LookUpTables for Trigonometry value (sine, cosine)
are still useful today with CPU working in Gigahertz, when speed is of prime
concern.

I am doing a project in visual basic 6.0 .
Is there any option/method to protect a file from deleting.
Please help me.

the solutions on the net are not very satisfactory after my search. Maybe i
missed something.
Is there a surefire way to determine wether a file exists or not ?
Any links would be appreciated!

is there anyway to embed a word document in a VB application? or to set the
encoding of a richtext object to accept Western European (dos) encoded text?
Situation is -
We have an old database that outputs raw text in this format,  if i open

I am relatively new to VB and VBA. I am learning on doing little projects. I
would like to capture user keyboard entries to allow entering diacritic
characters or special symbols to an Office application. E.g. typing \m would
result in sending a Greek micron letter or  \int would ...