VB Forum / General / January 2006

I'm trying to see if the programlanguage "XAL" can interact with DLL's
written in VB 6.0.
How do I do that, where can I find a simpe VB 6.0 DLL with a return value?
Best regards

in a Timer I have a whole chunk of code
(under an "If" statement) that seldom only
is processed (the "If" condition is satisfied),
so I thought to put what follows the If statement

A colleague and I are about to port an ASP web application to a
stand-alone, installable version with a subset of functionality from
the web version. To date we've enjoyed the ease in rendering complex,
dynamically (database) generated forms with HTML. We realize with VB,

For my client I have to build a onscreen keyboard just like the onscreen
keyboard of win2000/xp.
For this, I need implement the following features in a form/window-
*Form will not be activated by mouse click in the client area (Below the

I have an add-in for Word2003 that I didn't write and it was working fine
for several months. Day before yesterday, I clicked on the icon and it's
not working properly. I get the error: Requested member of the collection
does not exist.

I have found this on MSDN site:
osWrite.hEvent = CreateEvent(NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL);
How to use it in vbasic?

Many online articles about Visual Studio 2005 require the Northwind Sample
database.  
I download this file (Northwind/Pubs for SQL2000) but it will not install on
my PC.  Thermometer goes 90% across and stops.  Must use task manager to

I have a VB6 program which calls a useform in which the user enters a
filename.
I then call a subroutine which processes data in the file.
In the subroutine I have a progress bar which shows progress of the file

Hope you all are in for a new fantastic year of classic VB,  I am  :-)
Below is a function that reads a value from Registry, my problem is that I
now need to read a REG_DWORD type of value, I think this is the same as Hex
value.

 *** Using VB6 ***
I'm pretty new at this so please be patient. I'm using the GetOpenFileName API
to show the file dialog. I know I could use the CommonDialog control but this
way it's one less component I have to worry about installing/registering on a

When checking for the existence of an Object, is it fine to use...
If objWidget Is Nothing Then ObjectInit
Or should I be using the following...
If Not objWidget Is Nothing Then

To begin with, let me first WISH A HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ONE &
ALL!
Now coming back to the subject, a WebBrowser project has a ImageCombo
which makes the address bar. The reason why I am using a ImageCombo &

I'm writing a little proof-of-concept vb http webserver.  I use this
code to initialize and begin listening:
Private Sub cmdStart_Click()
   sPort = CDbl(txtPort.Text)

Hopefully I can describe this properly.  I have a text box with horizontal
scroll bar on my form and when I place text in the Text1.text property the
scroll bar adjusts as you would expect.  However if the enduser edits the
text box and say deletes most of the text leaving only a ...

Sometimes, I have to process the ACK byte, it only 1 byte.
If I try to receive data by:
Buffer = mscomm1.input
I will put ACK and DATA together.