VB Forum / General / December 2005

Hi Guys,
can ne1 tell me the difference between
-add in
-reference

I am using a TreeView control in a VB6 project. The TreeView has one
parent node which has 4 child nodes. I did like to get rid of the
vertical & horizontal lines along with "+" & "-" signs in the TreeView
control. Also the parent node shouldn't be expandable/collapsible. How

I have a proprietary scripting language.  The script parser is written
in C++.  I would like to extend my scripting language such that any
command I don't recognize I pass to the VB interpreter to handle.
First, is this possible?  If so - how?  Or what do I search for because

I am using the WebBrowser control in a VB6 project. I want that when a
user clicks a CommandButton, a new browser window (not IE but mine)
should open & the user should be taken to a particular URL (which will
be hard-coded). How do I implement this?

We are thinking of developing a product that needs to be able to parse
data printed via some printer driver. The data will then be used to
fill a PDF form. We believe the printer solution will be best as there
are multiple applications that we need to retrieve data from.

I had a Project (R) in a solution.
Then I had a separate solution that needed the dll for project R.
I copied the dll from the bin directory in project R and put it in the
new project (E) bin folder.

I have a type like this
type aaa
   sss as string * 100
end type

the format function basically does what i want it to do, but:
if i say: print format(123,"0.####")
it prints '123,' (withhout the quotes but with the decimal separator) (this
is a system where the decimal separator is a comma (,))

hI, I have downloaded a few sample programs from the Internet. whenver i try
and run them, i get the following error:
Must have startup form or sub main ().
then the project properties dialog box opens up.

Okay, this may not be VB related, but I'm not sure.  I created an
animation by using the AVI Creation tool from VBAccelerator.  The avi I
created is playable in Windows Media player.
However, I can't get the Intrinsic VB Animation control to play it.  I

I have a problem I hope someone has ideas on.  I have a VB6 app that
processes data, and then creates an Excel file with the results.  Everything
works fine, except when I try to create a textbox on one of my worksheets.  I
created some code and tested it in an Excel macro, but ...

I am using Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 with Windows XP SP2.
I have two MDI child forms; call them frmA and frmB. FrmA calls frmB. On
frmA is an an MSHflexgrid which has information needed on frmB.  Of
course, referencing information on frmA from frmB immediately creates a

for last few months i am seaching some VB6 sample to make my own VU
meter to indicate the sound level for
my video playback application.
nearly i got 2 dozens of code, where i got only Couldn't get waveout

I have a closed shape, containing three lines and two parts of a circle (arc)
How can i fill this shape with a RGB colour ?
Can someone give an example for VB6 ?
Tia,  Gerard

When I do a debug.print("blabla") in VB (VS2005) it doesn't show up in the
output window, what gives?