VB Forum / General / March 2006

I am writing a DrumMachine Program and as you can figure out, the timer
needs to be EXTREMELY accurate... I am using the TimeSetEvent function
of Winmm.dll. This is my dilemma...
This is the decalaration...

For creating VB-6 setup, I am using third party tool.
In my VB-6 application i am using Crystal Report  XI.
Can any one help me, what are support files to be included in the setup file
to print Crystal Report  XI files.

I have an app where I want the user to be able to create an entry in a
textbox in a form that will call up a pop up form based on parameters
he creates. So in my app the user would for example in a text box type
following template entry and click "Ok":

I am working with VB-6 application.
When i was run the application one form automatically deleted from my
physical location.
Now the form is nowhere in my system.

I have a multiple selection ListBox
When the user select the items, I would like to display the selected
item in a textbox....is that possible?
For example, I heve 10 items in the listbox, if the user select 2 of the

I want to delvelop boot strap program.
How to develop boot strap program by using V.B.
Anil Kumar

I am working on a db and I have a form and on this form I have a button that
would perform a Run a SQL script in this SQL script i have a “where” clause
When I click on the button it takes me back to the code and the “where” is
highlighted and I am getting a compile error “Sub or ...

Please advice me as I'm new in VB.
I have an error access to a module if I'm logging in under Users level
account. However, I don't have any problem running the module under
Administrator level account.

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What is the "NNTP server" name.

We would like to let our users easily switch back and forth between using
their production and demo databases.  The easiest way to do this would be to
let the user elect to "switch" via the program menu, then have the main
program form reload.  Is there a simple way to do this ...

New : test yourself my new VB6 syntax analyzer.
Summary : quality and robustness of a software is strongly dependant of
the design of it's elementary algorithms.
We present in this document who to deal with good quality, as well as

I have another date problem trying to convert a string to a date.
The string i'm using is:
060301 (representing 2006, March, 01)
When I run the string in my code:

When you have an ordinary frame control with Appearance 3-D and BorderStyle
Fixed Single and no caption there
will be the frame backcolor above the upper lining of the frame.
What is the best way to avoid this?

Is there a funciton to get a file extension.  I tried using instr rev
looking for a period under file name but it was not reliable because
sometimes the extension is less then three characters long and
sometime a folder has periods in it

When I open a chm file from an MDI form using
the command like in sample-1 below,
the fle always appears on top of the form.
Is there any other way so that when I switch to