VB Forum / General / February 2006

Wanting to read *.CAB files, but I am using XP as OS and do not have MS-DOS
all set to NTFS is there another way to read these files other than with
Extract.exe Please.

I receive a File Already Open error in the line:
' Open fname For Output As #fno '  of the file Open & write, section 2
I'm Filling a form's text box with a value from a text.txt file
and works perfect using:

Say I have a user defined type:
Type blah
X as String
Y as String

       I did a project a while back.  Everything worked fine.  I
needed to make some change to it a couple days ago... After I was done
with the change and rebuilt the executible, I got an error, missing
reference.  The Crystal report export was missing.  I tried add it back

I've seen code snippets using this control using the properties
"WebBrowser1.Document.Links" which is perfect for the program I'm
trying to write, but I'm using Visual Basic 6 and it doesn't recognise
it?!

I have been using UniBasic (aka DataBasic/PickBasic) for years. If I
want to extract the first word from a sentence I would code :-
WORD=FIELD(SENTENCE,' ',1)
In the above example, SENTENCE is a string. WORD is also a string.

Can anyone help to write permutation function for following formula..
nPr = n!/(n-r)!
where n is length of given string and r is lengh of subset..
for example..if given string is "abcd" and r = 2 then out put shuld be

In the forecolor property of a form, for example, there are numbers
like: &H00FF1100&. What are these characters stands for? H means
hexadecimal but if the numbers refer to RGB system, then it must have 6
digits not 8. Also what is the meaning of & in the beginning and end of

I have the following problem:
-I start VB 6 (SP6 with Windows XP SP2);
-I choose to create a new "ActiveX DLL";
-I create a

I've added a RichTextBox control to my form (VB6 app) and set the following
properties...
BorderStyle = rtfNoBorder
Appearance = rtfFlat

Am using VB5 under XP pro. I notice that the forms border colors are
controled by the selected windows "color scheme". Is there any way to
change this programatically from inside VB to say black?
Thanks,

What books, articles, guides, etc. would you recommend on good GUI design
principles and practices?  Thanks.
Dave

I'm working on a scheduling application for a department at work and I
have a need to load each week and task into a FlexGrid in a manner
that's different than presented in the recordset. For example:
Data as represented in the recordset might be something like

I have an application that has been running out in the field for quite a
while.  It uses the Monthview control.  It is all of a sudden failing and
coming up with this error when the calendar should be displayed.  I used
Monthview so that I didn't need to distribute any active x ...

I found on planet-source  a code how to change wallpaper using ActiveDesktop
object. It uses reference to "active desktop vb compatible type library" and
works fine.
Now I want to add picture to ActiveDesktop witch I will change it daily.