VB Forum / General / March 2006

Visual Basic changes the display according to the fonts in system control
("small fonts/large fonts"). The best to deal with this problem I have found
until now is go through all controls on the gui and change their positions
if large fonts are used. Does anybody know of a better ...

If I have 2 vb executables ExeA and ExeB. ExeA opens ExeB using the the
shell command.
How can I ensure that ExeB is opened modally to exeA so the user cannot
select ExeA?

I have a datagrid with a DateTime Picker control and a combo control on it.
The problem I am having is moving around the grid after pressing Return or
Tab.
Controls: DbGrid1, DTPicker1, Combo1

i am doing a project in VS.Studio.2005, but it is not database system. It
is a Data Acquistion System. In one UI, there are many components on that, I
would like to find a way to collect the value of setting up for each
components. I am not sure, what can I do? thank you very ...

Hi, i posted a question a few weeks ago, regarding a report i wanted to
create that should show the products sold within the current month only. i am
using data reports within VB6, and using the recordset object to create the
report.

I implemented the Tracer utiltity from vbaccelerator into my client/server
app.
My app is based on:
a) client (standard.exe)

I have a web service implemented in ASP.NET that I wish to consume using
vb6, and I'm just tring to figure out the best way to do this.
I have downloaded the SOAP toolkit version 3. As I understand it, puts some
COM wrappers around generic SOAP functionality. However, I was rather ...

Before I use a activeX object for pinging an ipaddress is there a easy way
to ping within VB w/o having to shell out?
I am looking for some builtin object that would return some value of the
state meaning did the address return a reply.

im thinking to learn predictive dialer, quite interesting.
got other ways to start? and how to start? got any simple sample code
to learn? or tutorial?
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i would like to change the color of a form in VB 6.0. Is there any WIN
API function which gets the form handle and changes the color of the
form. I do not want to change the system color. I just want the give
user a option to choose the color of the application.

How many ActiveX processes can I have tied in to a single "master"
process?
I have several installations running where the application consists of
a "master" process and a single ActiveX process. The reason I do it

Is it possible to set page margins before using the form.printform option
I would like to print information on pre-printed tictkets. I was trying to
position the data on the form and then print.. but it leaves margins when
printing and spoils it

In VB6 I want one app (App 'A') to start up ('shell') another app (App
'B').
The tricky part is I want App A to be notified when App B is finished
doing what it was 'opened' to do.

Hi
I want to search a string for the first showing of a minus sign eg asc(45)
place all the text to the left of the sign in a textbox1 and all the rest in
textbox2.

Sorry to raise the following but I have been fidling with the File System
object for some time, varying the approach to the file and I still can not
get to delete a file. I would be really grateful if someone would point out
the error in the following code. The system says the ...