VB Forum / General / April 2006

I have an VB6 program in which I FTP files from a specific folder on the
local drive out to a specific folder on the hosting server.
Files are added to the folder on the local drive daily.
Nightly the content in the folder is FTP'd to the hosting server.  Problem

This may be an easy one... but I just can not do it.  I need to send a
command to a printer, which means I need it to get the raw data, skipping the
Printer Driver.  But I need to do it using the Printer Driver, not a Generic
/ Text only.  How can I do that?

Which registry key is equal to local system account ?
Jack

Hello, friends,
For a given color value, we need to know its Read, Green, Blue values (0-255
respectively).  How can I extract such info from a given RGB value?
Thanks a lot.

I wonder: is there a way to get the compile date/time automatically
included in my .exe so that it can be displayed in an about box etc?
Now, I have an assign statement that I have to alter every time I
compile, and I sometimes forget to do it correctly.

I am trying to modify a program I downloaded from google.
On the vb form there is a frame and two buttons. I want to
delete the frame, but leave the buttons, but whenever I
try to delete the frame, the buttons are deleted as well?

I accidentally posted this Friday (31-March) in the BUGS ng. I'm reposting here
where I originally intended this to be read.
Group,
I have a file I am reading into one long string using Get.

I need to plot a graph from a set of points. I looked in google
and found that I can use or Line or mschart control. Since it
looks easier to use Line I tried the following:
Private Sub Form_Load()

I've written an application in C# that needs to be converted to VB6.
It's all pretty straight-forward, except I have a method in a base
class that is inherited into all derived classes that first checks to
see if a method exists in the instantiated object, and if so, calls it.

How to make GUI application to run as a process (to be seen by TaskManager
as a process under Processes tab but not being listed under Applications
tab)?
Of course in that case GUI will not be visible.

What happened to Zane Thomas & Abderaware?
Apologies for the off-topic post.
ChrisG

I am writing a process monitor.
Currently it can show the
 Name of the Process
 ID

Anybody know how to set up multiple secondary buffers in DirectSound,
whereby I have 24 small wav files, and I want to marry each of them to
their own buffer so that I do not need to first load each file before I
play it?

Hi, Everyone!
Suppose I am running several sound playing applications in Windows and
I also have several sound playback devices (e.g. speakers, headphones,
etc.). I know that each application may playback its sound on a

Is there a way to compile vb6 projects through the command line using a
batch file?
What I require is that the projects are compiled using the default settings
of the vbp and that I can change one or more conditional compilation