VB Forum / General / February 2006

Pls. forgive me if this is the wrong group for this post. I have been looking
through several and have not found an answer. If I am using a multimedia
timer with a small interval (1 ms) and windows interrupts the code during the
callback - such that the next interrupt is not ...

Presently I open the application with the following code:
Private Sub Command2_Click()
MyAppID = Shell("C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe", 1)
AppActivate MyAppID

I want windows to run a vbscript everytime I insert a cd or remove a cd.
How would I do this?
Thanx!
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I have just received a new computer running XP PRO SP2 and installed VB 6.0
on it.  The first couple of times I opened my VB programming environment it
worked fine.  Now every time I either open an existing progect or try to
start a new one I get an information dialogue box with ...

I have an application that's been in production for about 8-9 years.
It uses an Access database (I used the DAO 3.5 object library). At the
time, I provided a little utility that the end-user could run that did
a DBEngine.RepairDatabase and DBEngine.CompactDatabase on the app's

I want to write a piece of code using VB to change UNIX account password
remotely.
How can this be achieved?
Please advise.

Is there  a way to get the windows handle of every control of every
window open for every program running?

I would like to add more than one varialble into a watch expression
ie I would like the code to break when
Emp_no = 326
StrDivision = "ECT Region"

I want to have user input startdate & no. of workdays, then calculte the
enddate with consideration to the weekend days. I don't have to take
consideration of the public holidays.
Thanks for any help!

The code looks like this: form:
====================
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function SHBrowseForFolder Lib "shell32.dll" Alias

I have a question about how to start, stop and pass parameters to another
application. The other application is not an Office appliaction, but a VB
program. About passing parameters I know how to do that by using the
Command() option, but what if the program is allready running? ...

I have forgotten how I can see not documentary properties in object broweser
in VB.
Thanks.
Stas.

I just installed Crystal Reports 8.5 to check out printing for the first
time.  I was able to design a report.  I was able to pass a recordset to the
report.  Life is good so far.
Here is the code I used to for that purpose.

Working on a custom MsgBox with a label and up to 4 buttons.
The form and the label (and maybe the buttons) will need re-sizing according
to the prompt text and the number of buttons.
The buttons will need their positions altered according to the number of

I've had a couple of reports that when the user is using Windows XP, the
application disappears when it is minimized. It's still running in the
background, can't be restored and can only be stopped with the Task Manager.
It only seems to happen with Win XP no other OS