VB Forum / General / October 2005

Hello...
I'm new to both this group and VB6, so if this seems like a really
stupid question, then it probobly is, and I claim immunity from
ridicule by virtue of ignorance - so, sorry in advance!

Well, folks.  I've made the plunge and have officially discontinued any
further development using VB6.  I really hate to do this, but there appears
to be numerous advantages of using VB.NET 2005 over classic VB.   Not to
mention, there is no point in beating a dead horse any more ...

I've searched and read all the comments on this subject.  I've been at this
for a VERY long time.  My code used to work with Excel 2000; when we upgraded
to Office 2003, the multiple instances problem cropped up.  BTW, I am running
on Windows 2000.  I've tried all the different ...

I am trying to create a DLL file for a bunch of utility functions I
have written.
I created a new ActiveX DLL project.
I created a Class module in that project.

I am sure I have seen a tooltip bubble from a tray icon actually
contain a clickable link (like a blue underlined URL). Does anyone
know how this done? I would like to give a user several action choices
from the bubble.

A VB6 application has 2 Forms. The 1st Form includes a Public
sub-routine for the Click event of a CommandButton. The 2nd Form also
accesses this sub-routine (which is why it is Public & not Private)
through a BAS Module. Other than performing the same actions for both

I'm building  a vb6 application with ado 2.81 and access 2003 as a backend.
The app parse recipe files and import ingredients into a table.
Now, let's take as an example 8 different recipes that have the same
ingredient (eg. cilantro). When I parse these 8 recipes I will check if ...

this is very weird!!
Neither Year(myDate) nor myDate.Year work!!
I have VB 6 with all latest updates as far as I know.
I Used this, taken straight from MSDN:

Sometimes I find that though I have specified the height & width of a
Form (in the Properties Window), after running it, the value/s changes
on its own. For e.g. I set the height of a Form to 4135 but after
running it once, I find VB changing it to 4140! Though a difference of

Hi, good evening,
I would like to reverse the order of an array.
Dim Array1(20)
Dim Array2(20)

I have a VB6 application that makes use of 3 Forms & a module. While
working with it, there was an electricity failure suddenly &
unexpectedly. When electricity was restored & I started working with
that application, to my horror, I find VB telling me that one of the 3

I understand that i cant use modal forms when I use MDI.  However I did read
somewhere there is a way of doing it by setting the MDI child to false and
using vbmodal.  Cany anyone enlighten me how to do this?
Thanks

Why doesn't the Menu Editor in VB6 give the option to assign F10 as a
shortcut key? How do I assign F10 as the shortcut key for one of the
menu items?
Thanks,

Is it possible to set a child node as root level node? For example...
TreeView1.Nodes.Add , , "ROOT", "Root Node"
TreeView1.Nodes.Add , , "Child1", "Child1"
TreeView1.Nodes.Add "Child1", tvwChild, , "Sub 1"

I would like to write a custom Max function to return the largest of
several values.
The syntax would be something like:
 result = MyMax(p1,p2,p3)