VB Forum / General / October 2005

I am making a calculator in VB6. When the calculator loads for the 1st
time, it is in the "Standard" mode. Users can change it to the
"Scientific" mode by going to the "View" menu & selecting the menu item
"Scientific" (like the usual Windows calculator).

Hi...
I created a small little vb6 app... I just finished making a little icon for
it.
How do I assign the icon to my .exe??  I just want THIS exe to associate to

When I click  "Add Data Environment" on project menu I get a "class not
registered" message and no help is available.
There is no problem when loading the Designer from components.  Thanks

Is there a way to have VB6 create a Word document, and then save it in Word
Perfect format? I need to create a WP document for a client (nothing fancy,
just text) but I don't have WP. I know Word can save as a WP doc, but is it
possible to automate this process from VB6?

Due to some unfortunate events, I no longer have the Kodak imaging controls
that used to be available from Microsofts site that I need to rebuild a
commercial application. If anyone could help me out and send me the Kodak
imaging distributable package it would be greatly ...

Well, I fell dumb having to ask this. but...
How do you set the system time from VB6?
An API call I assume...
TIA

I need to format a number to this format ###-## using a TextBox  including
leading zeros.
I can't use the MaskEdit box, because my TextBox is part of a control array.
Already tried some formating, but it doesn't work. (e.g. ###-##000-00,

I'm trying to make a small programm in which users can transpose one
column to multiple columns.
from this format
field1

Additionally,  I've only been able to find solution in C language.  One of
them uses bitfields (and bitwise operations) to generate array ( as
represented in previous thread).  Can one create something similar to the
following C pseudo code in VBA ?

The VB6 Help files says that the pattern property for FileListBoxes can be
either a single parameter "*.doc" or multiple entries separated by semi
colons, "*.doc; *.txt"
However whenever I try this, as soon as I introduce the semi colon  in a

We have an issue with Micorsoft Windows (XP, Win2K) with respect to using an
API within a VisualBASIC 6.0 application. The API we are using is requires
access to several 3rd party installed programs.   The problem we are having
is that that the person signed on to the PC must ...

I was asked to find a tutorial on Visual SourceSafe.  Any suggestions?