VB Forum / General / March 2006

I inheritied a VB6 application that uses an add-in called HiEdit Pro which
prints documents like it was created in Microsoft Word. The company who
created the HiEdit Pro was Heiler Software who were located in Germany.
Unfortunately Heiler Software has been out of business for ...

Does anyone know how to change the fore color to a VB button?  The
background color is easy, but fore color wasn't left as an option at design
time.
Thanks

How can I accomplish displaying a window (dialog) with a message, for the
user, whilst a query is executing in the background?
Thanks.

i'm quite new to vb.
What Im trying to achieve is to create a tiny application that would
convert some plain text documents with lots of tags to Ms word format.
Is this possible.

Hope you doing great.
I was trying to insert a text box variable item in the excel sheet.
This is very basic code. I will be checking the advanced code about the
same later. However this is one thing that I need most immediately.

Type VARSTRING
   dwTotalSize As Long
   dwNeededSize As Long
   dwUsedSize As Long

Can anyone give me a clue on how to make a VB.NET program to take a
file name that looks like this:
$_1234_99999999_7777777777_00000000_$_A.tif
And make it into a CSV file to look like this:

I've looked  through this group and the net,probably looking for the
wrong thing,but I haven't been able to find out how to code the
keyboard left/right arrow keys to move me through a DAO Data1
control.Any pointers much apprciated

I declare an array at the beginning at my function as:
Private Sub SplitOn_tr(rtbHTML.Text)
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
   Dim strTables() As String

I have a form that changes depending on the value (ListIndex) of a combo
box.
This means that I need an event any time then combo box changes. The Box has
Style #2, no text entry, fixed items only. Thus the change event is not

Hello, friends,
In VB6.0, I tested the following code to download binary image files:
   Dim objInet As New InetCtlsObjects.Inet
   Dim byteData() As Byte      ' Data variable

Working in VB6, I am dynamically adding intrinsic controls to a control based
on a UserControl.  I'd like to be able to provide references to those
intrinsic controls to a class, something like this:
Public Function AddTextBox(sTextBoxName as string) as VB.TextBox

I have a VB6 application which uses MS Access as its backend.
Im familiar with Access and therefore how to place the record
navigation buttons for:
First Record

I want to read/write a SQL Server database from a DOS based programming
language.  ODBC is not an option.  I'm considering having a VB program
running in the background with the SQL Server file open, and having the DOS
program send it IO requests.  Any suggestions on how to ...

I would really appreciate it if any of you would do me a favour and kindly
test the following printer code for me. It should enable you to print (using
the API instead of the VB printer object) to any printer you select, and it
should do so without messing up the default printer ...