VB Forum / General / January 2006

thanks in advance!!

I am a newbie and a serious VB learner of VB6.0.
From my first lesson(Calculation program), I have created small
program(calculation program). I made 3 text box(data1, data2, Ans) and 5
command button(add, div, mult, sub, exit). Everything is working fine(all the

In VB6 EXE, when i am try to load the form i am getting the following error.
 Method: Form_Load
 Number: 360 = &H168 = vbObjectError + 2147221864 = ERRMAP_APP_FIRST +
2147216666

I have a exe project that shows a form on startup. Let's call it form A
Now, I want to make an addition to the project. I want to have a second
form, let's call it FormB.
When user clicks a button on FormA, I want FormA to become hidden (not a

Sorry to those that posted replys to this message before, it appears I did
not explain my problem clearly.
Within XP Home or Professional each user has a log in name, where is this
information stored within XP, and can I extract this information and place it

I have problems when I close my VB application. I get an error message.
When I resize my form to vbMinimize I create an icon in the system
tray:
If Me.WindowState = 1 Then ' 0 = Normal, 1 = Minimised and 2 =

I have a Symbol Barcode scanner that I use with the serial port.  I wrote
some simple VB code using MSCOMM to read the input from the scanner.  Works
fine but now I need to do the same thing using a USB port.  My ASSumption is
that I will need to work with the USB drivers but ...

Hi I have a MSFlexgrid and I want to hold down the left mouse button the
mouse over an area of the grid and change the back color of that area
(similar to a spreadsheet). Can anyone offer any input on this?
Thanks.

i have a project in VB. i want to use its interface in IDL. how can i
do this? otherwise i will have to make it all over again.
plz help
thanks in advance.

Can anyone help me how to change the column width of MSFlexGrid ?
I looked through in the project properties list but couldn't find
anything.
I used a label longer than the column width.  And it is truncated.

Greets,
Background:
A replacement for the 'Run' dialog on the start menu.
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Sorry to bug you guys again, but has anyone ever run across this problem ?
I've got a common controls 5 listview (details view/1 column), that
supports drag-n-drop within my application.
It seems as though there may be some issue with the events generated.

I'm running a DOS executable from a VB Shell function.
vCnvrtWFMResponse = Shell("cnvrtwfm -l " & InputPathFile,
vbNormalFocus)  'Call the app
The DOS executable converts a file from one format to another.

We're using the Webbrowser control to display html help documents (stored
locally) to our users.  We need to be able to access the body text of the
html document both for purposes of editing the text and searching the text.
I started palying with the Webbrowser.Document property, ...

I've found an example at:
http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=27489&lngWId=10
It seems a little too robust for just a simple task.
Any ideas on how to go about doing this?