VB Forum / General / November 2005

This must be simple but I cant figure it out.  On any of my text box fields,
I get the windows clipboard drop down menu if I right click.  How can I keep
this from happening?
Thanks,

In VB6, what is the major difference between Null and Nothing?  Also,
why is an object that is nothing not null?  For example in this code
bNothing will be True, but bNull will be false even though otest has
not been set to anything.  Shouldn't it be both Null and Nothing?

Years ago (199x)   I remember a friend demonstrated how you can
retrieve the VB source code from a VB executable.   Do such tool still
exists?  How effective are such tool in allowing you to at least know
how the original prog works?

I have a Listview control in report mode, with multi selection enabled.
When the user clicks or shift/control-clicks on items, I react on the
selection changes made. So far, so good.
When the user left-clicks to the right of the rightmost column, then moves

How can I get  CellLeft, CellTop of a specific cell without visiting the
cell.
for ex:
   x=CellTop(5,6) 'gets the top of the cell in row 5 col 6

Can one of you VB6 experts help me out?
I have the following situation:
My application is running in the background and you are working on something
else ie a word doc, how can I kill my application by pressing a function key

I have a VB application that has 2 cached connection objects to 2 separate
databases. There are ocassions where there is an understandable lag between
adding the data in one connection and that being analysable in the other
connection.

Good Morning All.
I am using VB6.0 SP5
Question.
How can I change the Font on all labels, textboxes etc. when

I was about to make a new package and, in doing so, I received an error that
there was a missing file that was needed:
kernel.dll
I searched my HD and it's not there - -

can someone help me ammend this code so that if cancel is selected the
program returns to the program without bombing out?
Option Explicit
Private Const BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS = 1

I am tyring to see if outlook is running...I have found this code but
the error " User defined type not defined" keep popping up....I have
jsut inserted the new code at the beginning of my procedure.
Dim oApp As Outlook.Application

I search a way or a shareware or a program that can combine two RTF file for
making a RTF file.  My template file (RTF) have a header and a footer, I
want to insert in them in the core of the template an another RTF File. This
file that was inserting have no header and footer. I ...

I have created a fuction that executes a SQL statement which works fine but
I am confused why the line:
If Not oRecordset.EOF Then ExecBackupQuery = oRecordset.RecordCount
fails. The Recordset.Open statement seems to close the recordset and this

Hello, I want to monitor an other application's windows message, also I want
to know the value of the windows message parameter. Is there any tool out
there to do that?
Spy++ seem ok to get all messages, but it does not give me the value of

I'm not sure if this is the 'right' place to post -- I'm just getting used
to the VB newsgroups, but I need assistance and am hoping I can either get
the assistance or some help in pointing me the right direction.
In any case, I have a basic question regarding the actual ...