VB Forum / General / October 2005

We have a Citrix server on which both Visual Basic 6 and Visual SourceSafe 6
are installed.  When I log in and use VB, I have the full set of Visual
SourceSafe integration commands (check in, check out, get latest, etc.).  
However, when a coworker logs in, he does not have any of ...

Good day can I select only one row of a listbox with the syle checkbox?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I have a picturebox that I have placed tiles on them in an isometric view
(2:1).  I would like to draw a grid on the picture box to highlight the tile
borders.
Everything that I have tried results in pretty (wierd) wireframes.

Hi:  I'm writing VB6 code and I need to be able to be given a relative
file path (e.g. "N:\UserDir\somefile.txt" and turn it into an absolute
path (e.g. "\\DumServer\folder1\somefile.txt").
Easy way to do that?

I have a BUNCH of  buttons that all do pretty much the
same thing, similar to:
'--------------------------------------------------------
Private Sub btn_Scale_0132_Click()

I am trying to write a program that will play two flash movies over and over
while the application is running.  So, after the first movie is over it
starts the second one and so on.  Any ideas how to do this?
Thanks

I'm trying to build a simple program that can get and parse an
email.  I was told that the function MapiReadMail() could do this, but
I can't figure out how to use it.
Can someone please post a simple example of how to grab a message from

I am using Visual Basic 6 and I would like to know if there is a way to get
the value of a variable from the variable name as a string.
For example:
Dim i as integer

I had posted this in comp.lang.visual.basic and haven't recieved a reply
   (to be fair it's only been one day), but then came across this group and
there is much more activity here..
My apologies for cross posting(?) .

I realize how terribly behind I am however, I am in need of Visual Basic 3.
I already have VB3 and have recently had a need to reinstall the program,
for which one of my installation diskettes appears to become unusable.  I
know this is a .NET world these days, but I am still stuck ...

i need to write double number to a fixed lengh, es.:
3    ->  3.00
3.3 -> 3.30
i use format

Running vb6 (sp 6 )  
I want to run a vb procedure that will open an internet window as a stay on
top window  and allow a user to browse web pages, etc, but when that internet
window is closed then carry on with the vb procedure and report that the

Would it somehow be possible to trigger an event on right-clicking a
commandbar button?
These buttons are created like this:
Public cb2 As CommandBar

new to vb, using 'classic' as it is now called I guess...vers 6...
I have one project as activeX dll... it is a work in progress so it needs
re-compile a few times a day...
I have another project (also activeX dll) that has a ref to the first, as it

I've made a custom ocx, which amazingly enough seems to work.

I place an instance of it on a form in a std exe project.
I have registered the ocx via regsvr32.