VB Forum / General / February 2006

I need to dynamically create a form (no controls) in Sub Main. I do
not want to show the form but just load it after creating the form and
get its hWnd.
The following gives no error but also no hWnd.

Anyone know how to get the color panel (the color picker for controls in the
properties panel) to actually show colors when applying an XP manifest to the
VB6 IDE? The system colors show fine, but the RGB colors do not.
Thanks -

I'm trying to build a DLL of library functions in VB to call from other
programs.  How do i do this ?
Regards
Michael

Let's say I select several files from Windows Explorer.
Then I right click and get a context menu with my VB .EXE app showing up.
I select my app.
My app starts and in it Command$ returns only one of the items that I

When looking on sites like: http://www.konzeptra.at/ral_zu_rgb.htm,
(example ) I see RAL RAL 1000 Green beige, has RGB color   214, 199, 148.
In Visual Basic 6.0 i'm using a picture box for the RGB color:
Dim RGB As String

in vb, is there something like
me.properties(propertyname)=newpropertyvalue
or
for p in me.properties

I have some users of my app that do not have admin rights and I have
modified my app to look into the registry for some info on the OS.  Will my
users run into some problems?
Thanks

I have a project in which I use a call to MakeSureDirectoryPathExists
WinAPI function. This function resides in imagehlp.dll, but also in
dbghelp.dll. As I understand it, MS advises to use the one from
dbghelp.dll. However, imagehlp.dll is distributed with IE 4 and up,

I want to be able to FTP a file from one server to another via a VB6 exe
program run in a task scheduler. Can anyone point me to where I can find out
how to code this in VB6?  Thanks.
David

I wrote an ActiveX EXE but when I try to compile it, the only menu
option I see is:
  RUN / Start With Full Compile
I don't think this option produces an actual EXE file.  At least I

In a ListBox with check boxes, when I click on an item's description, it's
highlighted but the check box doesn't get checked (it isn't selected). Is
there a way to make it selected if I click on the line outside the check box?
Or is there a way to detect the difference between ...

In VB 2003, the code generated for data binding could be viewed under coding
panel. But for 2005, Is there any chance to view these code behind?
Cheers
Good

I have an app that a lot of people use.  It pulls down HTML from the
Internet using the following InternetOpenURL call in VB:
lngOpen = InternetOpen(scUserAgent, INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG,
vbNullString, vbNullString, 0)

A few years back I attempted to learn Visual Basic.  I didn’t follow through
with it and now I’m thinking of trying again.  I have Visual Studio 6.0.  But
I was looking at Microsofts web site, and saw a free download of Visual Basic
2005 Express.  Would this be a wise idea or ...

Is there a way in vb6 to retrieve an object reference based off a string
name?  Something like the following pseudo.
Thanks, Damon
Private obj as Object