VB Forum / General / January 2006

           Some of my variables are declared as Byte.
I need to store them in registry.
When I use:
Dim  As oShowOptions as Byte

I have written a program that prints several reports
on an Epson dot matrix printer. I use PRINT # command
so that the output is in basic printer text mode
and the printer works fast.

i have a usercontrol that i gave with the usercontrol wizard the following
events
mousedown,mouseup,mousemove
if i place that usercontrol on a form, i can see the event procedures at

I have a bunch of servers, actually there are about 340.
I have the names of the servers but what I'd like to do is loop through
the servers and return all the databases on those servers.
I'd also like to find out how busy the servers are.

MS trying hard to promote .net
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The Help file for l my app is causing an error when I call it from the
menu but not from the F1 key.The help file is context sensitive and
when a form is active and I press F1 the help file is opened with the
correct topic displayed,however when I try to open the help using the

Hi Every One. I want to use BackSpace Keyboard Event. Actually i want
when ever backspace is pressed my text field shud have focus and the
first character from the right (Text Box is right justify) shud be
deleted. I have used some other events like KeyPress() with other

I am continually having problems in the development envoronment of
strange things happening.  It occurs after I'ved been using it for
awhile.  After exiting and comming back in the problems go away.
How can I find out if I'm running up against any memory constraints or

I'm sure there's an easy way to do this already but am not seeing it.
Does anyone know of a function that exists in VB6 already that allows
you to pad 0's (or any character) to the left of a string?

My company has a Financial system which was written quite a number of
years ago and has grown to be a very large product.
The system uses VB6 and SQL Server 2000.
We connect to SQL using VBSQL.OCX, thus using all of its funtions

I have problem writing to Windows registry numeric value:
Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32" Alias "RegSetValueExA" (ByVal
hKey As Long, ByVal lpszValueName As String, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal
fdwType As Long, lpbData As Any, ByVal cbData As Long) As Long

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Dear All,
I am trying to send an email through Outlook NOT through the default Mailbox
but through another mailbox that I have total rights to. We are using Outlook

I'm brand new to coding in visual basic 6.  I have a need to put code
into by VB app so that is will give control (or switch focus) to
another .exe that is executing.  Can someone tell me the command to do
this in my VB app?  Thanks a bunch for any help.

Sounds spoony but I've just used my USB cable to light up an LED, and I
was wondering can I use VB to make it flash or just turn it off an on.
Any ideas???
Cheers

Hi all, I've written a function to return true or false if the value I
supply to it is close to a predefined column:
   Private Function IsOnColumn(ByVal Position As Integer) As Boolean
       Const COLUMN_WIDTH As Integer = 100