VB Forum / General / March 2006

I'm using a list with numbers for the user to select then it changes a
variable to be use in a formula but I can't get it to change the
variable without clicking the number in the list box, I want it to
change as soon as I click the little arrows...should I be using a

'morning i've selled a suite composed by a fortran and a VB6 program. Now an
buyer has got a linux platform. For fortran may i have to rebuilt and
re-compile  with linux compiler .... maybe .... but with VB ??????? how can i
do  ?

My application frequently writes to disk, I currently write to the
application path and delete the files when done.  The majority of my clients
are in the medical industry and they lock down the PCs and don't like or
forget to give the windows account the permission to write to ...

Quick question - is anyone using VB2005 and if so is it an augmented
procedural like VB6 or object based like VB.Net?
Cheers
Mick

My friend has developed an application in VB6,Access2000 and Crystal
Report. Now when he tried to create a package it was giving  following
error :
Unexpected Error Number 80010108 has occured:Automation Error The

I have a list of last names that can be in different languages:
chinese, english, russian, german, etc.  Different format need to be
applied only for last names in chinese.  For this purpose, I need to
check if last name contains chinese characters.  Any ideas how to do it

I am using the Open method for logging in my VB6 app. This works fine,
however the Print results are not written to the text file until the Close
method is used. For example:
Open {file} for Append As #1

I created a picturebox.
I want to show different images in it.
Problem is that they all have differentt sizes.
(Most of them are .jpg)

Some time ago a messge was posted showing some simple code that one can use
to
convert text to speech using VB6.  There was no question posted with the
code so

I have the code as below:
( this is vb version )
Public Declare Function Retrivexxxx Lib "A.dll" (ByRef str As Byte) As
Integer

I read that you can save text files, and open them without using FSO. Can
someone point me to the MSDN area that talks about that? Or a spot on the
web. I've hunted around, but can't find a good detailed guide on it.

Hi, I just want to know how to send keys into hiden window - here is the code:
Private Sub command1_click()
   Dim PauseTime, Start, Finish, TotalTime
   Dim p As Variant

I am hoping someone can let me know the easiest way to take text from
the mainframe using either excel or access vba...all I need to know is
how to get it to copy off the screen and then paste it probably in a
spreadsheet....

I have a text string from which I want to retrieve a date.
My string looks like:
"01 MAR 06 THIS IS MY FILE.doc"
Now I want to search with something like: 99 AAA 99 (for 13 MAR 06)

I have a database on a network drive.
I open the connection with a query:
sql1 = "select * from Categories where Categories.Category = something"
cn.Open Me.GetConnectionPath