VB Forum / General / April 2006

Internet Transfer Control (Inet) is not happy with 2 "@" signs in its
URL. Some ISP's these days provide FTP usernames of the type
<unique_username>@<domain>.<toplevel>. The problem with transfering
data through VB's Inet control is that it dislikes 2 "@" when sending

I have an OCX which has two CTL's in it. I'd like to create some code that
both of the CTL's can make use of. The shared code and the two CTL's all
need to share some global variables. The problem is, I'm having a bit of
trouble coming up with the appropriate syntax that permits ...

I am trying to validate a textbox in which the user enters the following -
"smtp.servername.com|net|org|etc... and I cannot. I have tried. The string is
in the form xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx. Does anyone have any idea how to validate this
string.

I'm really struggling with this one.  I have this working just fine in
2000 and XP using the SendARP API.  Unfortunately, however, this API
does not exist in 98.  I need some way to retrieve a MAC address of a
remote machine via the remote machine's IP address.  Basically, all I

I have the following code developed and it works fine. The number 125 in line
12 is the index number in the table.  I have a two column Access table with
the week number and a word associated with that number. There are 25 words
per week and I want to randomly generate 25 words ...

can anybody tell me how I can activate the screensaver from VB?
Thanks for your help
Ole

Can someone explain this new-to-visualbasic programmer why my statement
throws an exception?
I have defined a class:
Class myDataSet

I have the following:
Sub ResetToED2()
   Application.Replace Field:="Duration", Test:="contains",
Value:="1d?", Replacement:="1ed", ReplaceAll:=True, Next:=False,

I just started moving my VB6 and my developed apps over to another
machine.  For some reason, the mouse points and clicks fine... but the
scroll device doesn't work with VB6 development environment on this
machine!  It's a standard Microsoft Wheel mouse, and works fine in all

I need to execute a VB-script from my Vb6 application (ActiveX exe
application) and cannot figure out how to receive the output generated by the
script back to my application.
It's a regular VB.script (.vbs) and I have no problem executing it, the

is there any way to detect that the tab-key is pressed in a textbox

How do I get the mouse position i.e. the X & Y co-ordinates when the
mouse is moved over different menu items under a menu?
A sample code will be highly appreciated.........
Thanks,

I'm running VB6 Enterprise on Windows Me.  Something strange happened to my
system, where any program that uses ADODB blows up as soon as you try to
instantiate a recordset object.  All my projects in VB are affected and even
other programs on my computer also blow up with a Type ...

Using the following code, the Caption of a menu item gets displayed in
a Label when the mouse is moved over a menu item (for e.g. if the mouse
is over a menu item whose Caption is "New", then the Label will display
"New"):

I'm currently developing an application which will need to be creating
documents in Word format and subsequently be either printer, faxed, or
e-mailed.  The latter part I'm pretty sure I can handle, but this is my very
first venture into working with Word documents, and would ...