VB Forum / General / December 2005

I have developed an activeX control in ATL and VC++.  I am trying to
test this control in VB.net and refine it.  In other words, if a method
I have doesn't work well with VB I will change the method in ATL and
build a new control.  So I am in the debug, test, and refine stage of

Trying to read from a .txt into a text box using the step command. Have
been trying
Open "*****" for input as #1
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Hello, friends,
In our VB6 app, we loaded .jpg files into memory. After certain processing,
we save all data into a .jpg file and use an Image control to view the
processed pictures.

I need to take a mostly fixed width text file and either separate it out
immediately or bring it into an access database for later use.  I am working
with a trace log from a 3rd part Group Policy tool.  I want to separate out
some General Information, Variable Information and ...

I'm trying to create a drag and drop from another control to a Treeview - -
However, when the cursor gets over the Treeview - there's no way to tell
what Node is actually going to be selected - the Drag & Drop pointer does
not point to the correct node - only the little curved ...

Am accessing a .txt file and want to use step to access say every third
line.
Am using a For..Next Step as the loop but the step is ignored.
Have tried to read in all file first and process from there but no joy.

I would like to determine if an ocx exsits on a system when my program
starts.  It should be in the windows\system32 folder.  is there a way
to test if this was an old windows install (i.e \winnt\system32)?

How to code for sending mails to severel persons. The following do NOT
function:
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

Hello,
 I'm trying to save/retrieve a version for .mde files. I've noticed that,
unlike .exe files, they don't have a version number associated with them. I
was hoping to use another file attribute to track the version, such as the

As I work to convert a working VB 2003 app that has no error messages to VB
2005, I have been presented with more than 100 instances of the following
warning message:
"Access of shared member, constant member, enum member or nested type

Can any one help me with this? It keeps saying Incorrect Syntax near
'@dbname'
   using ADO in vb6 and conn is the connection command.
       str = " @dbname = N'dbdata', "

I'm putting together a specialized web browser app, but can't get the right
code to populate the pertinent textbox with the web address of the currently
displayed page.  For example, if I click on www.yahoo.com/r/mp, the browser
goes to the proper page but I also want to display ...

How can we embed a <CR> <LF> inside of a string?  We are able to do this in a
SQL query and get the desired results (an address that appears on 3 lines).  
We are not able to get the same results inside a VB 6.0 program. We get a
strange looking character for each CR/LF pair but ...

A waiting room can hold from one to 40 patients. As each patient signs into
the waiting room a 20 minute timer starts for that patient. At the end of
that 20 minutes, a message screen should pop on one of the nursing screens
stating that Patient Barbara Smith is waiting to be ...

In my app. The splash screen comes up fine the tips form comes up fine.
In the App where I catch keystrokes and print them on the form . The
printing does not take place even though the keystrokes are being trapped .
It is possible to check that out.