VB Forum / General / April 2006

    I developed an application using VB 6.0 and the display is
completely unusable when I change the DPI setting to 120 DPI. It throws
away all alignment and even the buttons are not visible in some of the
windows.  If the DPI is 96, everything is working fine. Could anybody

  I have a problem for the software package we developed in Padmam
technologies at Cochin. We developed the application in VB and is using
an mdb file to store some data. There are a problems we see in the
installed image.

Hi, i have created a vb6 application. 2 questions:
1) why is that when i run it off the cd on someone else's computer, no
colours on the application appear. ie just gray.
2) how do i change the path name to connect to the database. at this moment,

I'd like to use the CCRP Up/Down control in my app.
However the up/down arrows seem to be the opposite of what I expect.
The up arrow decreases the value and vice versa. I could solve this by
not buddying the control but then I'd lose the great mousewheel

Anyone know what the visual basic 6.0 equivalent of the 2005 line:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Text1.Text)
is? The line is supposed to open the value Text1.Text in what the default
application for Text1.Text is.

When I import from from a VBA application that I want to convert to VB the
forms get imported to a 'Designers' folder in VBE rather than the 'Forms'
folder.
Can anyone help ?

            I am very close to the limit of 256 controls placed on the
single form.
How can I check, how many controls I have already placed or how many can I
add to the form?

I have 3 arrays, each with different data and dimensions called
strArray1, strArray2, strArray3.
I have a public function in which I would like to step through one of
these arrays.

Hi, i have managed to distribute an application created using the package and
deployment wizard. Everything is ok except the background colour.
why is it that when the application is intsalled on another machine, the
background becomes the default gray? is it something to do with ...

I'm writing a program which simulates Data Handling experiments for Maths
students in secondary school.  A number of coins are spun and their outcomes
are recorded.  The frequencies are displayed on the screen.
If the experiment is repeated 100 times, VB very quickly calculates ...

Can anyone recommend a book on  VB 2005 or VB.NET 2003
for an intermediate C/C++ programmer?
Thanks a lot,
James

I began programming in Visual Basic 6.0 when I was in high school.  I
tried Visual Basic .NET 2003, but couldn't figure much out.  I tried
the beta 1 of Visual Basic 2005, not much luck with that.  However, I
was astonished to find out how easy Visual Basic 2005 was once I used

What is the general format for opening a file in visual basic 6.0 FileOpen
doesn't seem to work. Do I need to use an API or something?
Thanks
John S

I have an existing OCX whose execution I'd like to trace through using VB6.
I can't quite figure out how to do this would greatly appreciate it if
someone would explain to a C++ programmer how this might be accomplished.
Here's what I've tried so far -

I'm wanting to use visual studio 2005 (VB) to start and track progress of
the powerpoint viewer 2003.
The aim is to start  the pptviewer from a VS application and when it
completes my VS application will be able to start another, thus I need to be