VB Forum / General / October 2005

I am new in crystal report (using vb.net). Currenlty, my report format
looks like below:
School : ABC
Class : A1

I have a some listviews in my app and just recently added the ability for
the user to change the font size.  There are 11 columns in the listview and
some of them are narrow.  If a user selects a larger font size, the column
headers cut off on the narrower ones.  Is there a way I ...

how can add a intellisense feature in a say textbox, i.e., to say that
when i start typing in the textbox as soon as i hit 1 or 2 alphabets it
should give me an option of a complete word as it happens in microsoft
word.

I'm opening a file with shellexecute call in its default program, like
opening pdf file with acrobat reader, but after he exits the program
that I called, if my program is still working, I want to get
notification therefore I can delete the file that I opened, which is in

I am a developer for 6 years now and sometimes users of my software get
strange issues. One of my programms is called SmartMedium FINANCE and it
uses some common dependencies such as comctl.ocx and comdlg.ocx (see list
below).

does anyone know of an activeX control to display a binary tree?  like a
Treeview control, but where each node can have just a left and right child
nodes.
Or, alternatively, some code to do it?  Each node just has a # in it, from 0

My VB6 program is having a hard time writing to Word 10.
I've got a reference to MSWORD.OLB in my project. It works great in the VB
IDE on my development machine. But when I run it on the client PC, it
crashes. Here's my code:

I am using VB6 and Oracle ODBC driver.
I want to clear out the existing connections "immediately" without rebooting
the machine and without waiting for the CPTimeout to expire. (N.B. setting
the CPTimeout to zero in the registry does not take effect right away

I'm trying to write a macro that will run upon exiting a dropdown box in
a protected word form.  What I'd like to do is, when a user chooses an
option in the dropdown box other than the fist choice, the text in the
box is changed to bold.  So far I have this code:

I am adding text into a textbox using the following formula:-
NewTXT is the new text added each time.
txtOutputs.Text = txtOutputs.Text & NewTXT
The problem is that carriage returns are displayed as a symbol (CHAR(182))

Hi to ALL
I've had this problem with running my completed App on different OS's. The
app runs fine until I hit any data connection. I've read the help from a
previous discussion(I think on the 9th), went through the whole uninstall of

I am a VB program and I am trying to use the following file:
(on the client pc we have Windoxs XP professional).
Library CDO
   C:\WINDOWS\System32\cdosys.dll

Can someone give me advice on how to extract the data from MSFlexgrid and
diaply them in textboxes in a customized form?
Actually, it will be easy to do so if there is one reocrd in the MSFlexGrid.
However, if I perform a query and get over hundred rows of results, how can

I'm new to VB.Net 2003 - (2 weeks in) so this MAY be straightforward...
(Things changed since Octal Assembler I see !!!)
I'll try to lay this out in a way that makes sense
I created a MdiParent form

I have a piece of code that always creates a new instance of the Excel
object.  I use this object in my VB6 code for generating radial plots.  The
issue I'm having is when my app window is open and I open an excel file
(that already exists, not new)...  the resulting workbook uses ...