VB Forum / General / November 2005

I need help to figure out if a Mapped drive is available. or accessible
My program is in VB 6.
The reason is my program is creating a PDF document when the user print out
a document. The PDF is stored on a Mapped Drive "T:" most of the time the

I was just wondering, how many (if any) users here moved to VB from Delphi.
I am a Delphi user (hobbiest only, not a professional) and love it.
However I would like to see how the other half live so to speak :-)
I have spoken to people about moving to Delphi from VB, but thats only ...

I was wondering if there's a free or low cost add-in for VB6, such that I
would analyze spit out a call stack for all of my procedure calls.  When I
write I frequently break code into a list of sub routines and sometime I lost
track of the call sequence.  I would like to know if ...

I have found some code in the groups that will check our network to see
which users are online.
The only problem with the code is that it returns the name of the
machine instead of the name of the person who is logged on.

I'm not sure if this is an issue with Visual Basic, Windows, or my
hardware.  I have a very simple but very processor-intensive data
mining application that I wrote in Visual Basic on a Windows 2000
machine.  When I run it on the Windows 2000 machine (or another Windows

how do i make  a object to move in  a curve or a circle..........so far
my object can move up down , left right etc diagonal but not in a
circle or a curve how do i make it do a circle? thanks

Me.Width = CLng(lname) or Me.Width = CInt(lname)
causes Mismatch error!!!
Me  is the current form
lname is declared as a string and contains saved Me.Width value.

How can I perform bit operations in VB6? In VC++ I could move bits to
right or left from an integer value using "<<" and ">>" operators. Is
it possible to do it in VB6?
Thansk in advance,

I want to know if exists a way to send a mail withouth using the Mapi
controls or
Outlook reference, I want to do the same action when user right click a file
"SendTo mail" in the desktop.

I have recently reinstalled VB6 on my home computer after not having used it
for a while and whenever I add a component reference to the toolbox, the
VB6.exe IDE GPFs instantly. This happens with any component reference via
'add component'.

Can someone me how to add an icon to a dll. Thak is to say, when I build a
dll, how do I get it to use a different icon in the build options?
Can't seem to find any info on the web
Thanks

I am new to this group and VB6 as well.  I have a small doubt in the
coding part.  I am using VB6 with mysql 3.23.54 database.  I need to
pass a string value (eg. c:\pictures\logo.gif) to the corresponding
database field called imagepath (mentioned below in the sql statement).

  can anyone plz tell me abt any function available in VB 6.0 which is
equivalent to __min(int a, int b) function in VC ..... __min fuctions
returns the minimum of 2 parameters.
thnx

Does anyone know of a simple way to get the path without the filename from
the return of a common dialog control. In my app, I want the user to select
the path where data is stored. I can easily use the common dialog to allow
the user to "open" a data file in the directory they ...

I've a byte array dim'ed 0 to 33 and it's populated with stuff up to element
31. I want to copy elements 0-31 into a string variable.
What's the copy memory call to do this?
Thanks