VB Forum / General / October 2005

Today I writed some code for getting the name of an enumeration at
runtime.
I wrote a simple function, and a bigger class (faster and powerfull :-)
Example:

Gentlemen, I have an Excel chart inserted in a form.
How can I get it to read its data from the Form Labels(Label.Caption)?.
Thanks. Guillermo.

I tried Vb Installer its cool compared to PDW
i installed a database program is installed using vbinstaller setup.
its fine and working
every time i put the setup  cd

I'm trying out the wonderful ListView control by Steve at
vbaccelerator:
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/ListView/article.asp
The binary doesn't do Unicode. But the source code seems to have

A VB6 application has 2 Forms - frm1 & frm2. Assume that frm1 has a
sub-routine named Calculate() that gets invoked when the user clicks
any of the various CommandButtons that frm1 encapsulates. Now I want to
call this sub-routine from the second Form i.e. frm2. How do I do it?

how can i run a SWF file in visual basic 6.0... how can i controll it??? can
you give me an example of it...thanks...

Hi all, I need some help here.
I'm currently working on a large(ish) VB6 application - code
tidy-up/additions to an existing application. It will run from the IDE with a
full compile. However, this morning we (my colleagues and I), tried to make

Just a question on whether there is any issues with
XP SP2 or VB6.0 SP6 if I was to install either of
theses on my machine.
Thanks for any advice on this

How do I open a new window when a command button is clicked? Also I did
like to specify the size & the position of that new window.
Thanks,
Arpan

How do I populate a ListBox with the values of the CommandButtons
ensuring that the previous entries in the ListBox remain as it is?
For e.g. when a user clicks the 1st CommandButton, 'A' should be listed
as the 1st option in the ListBox. Next if the user clicks the 2nd

Can anyone point me to some information about how to create in VB6 a small
app that would monitor the system date and run a procedure at midnight at
the start of each month?
Specifically, my goal is to create a desktop photo calendar that would

Cleaning up an old app and I have noticed a 1 cent mistake in some sample
financial calculations. I've been using doubles up till now (even with the
apparent precision issue), but I'm wondering if currency would be better.
These values are being saved to SQL2000 as decimals. How ...

I have a MDI and in the load section I have the code
Private Sub MDIForm_Load()
   Dim newdoc As New frmMain
   newdoc.Show

I created my very first .exe file which reads table & server information from
our SQL server, then uses SQLDMO to script the structure of the table being
read to a .sql file for archiveing the structure.  
I would like to extend this functionality to accept opeing arguments, read