VB Forum / General / May 2006

I want to read the contents of a file using vb 6.0 . I need to access and
then display the information which is present in the 3rd record and in the
12th record... How do I do that? Below is my code:
Dim i As Integer

Limitation of Code lines in Class File (VB6)
Anybody know, if there is any limitation of no of lines of code in Class file?
I am facing some issues, my class file contains 52535 lines of code. When I
compile the code, VB6 compiler hangs. When I comment one of the

I have a textbox with  a lot of text.
Part of it I want to make bold. Is there a quick function to do this?
     txtDetails.Text = "Lastname " & itmX & vbCrLf & _
                       "Firstname " & itmX.SubItems(1) & vbCrLf & _

In VB6, under what circumstances would a 'maximized' non-modal Form
refuse to show up when I click a 'WindowList' menu item?
I'm having a few issues with this particular form, primarily the one
I've asked about above.  But something has clearly gone WRONG with

             I am using DateAdd to retrieve a date that is coming from a
Unix system and is the number of seconds past midnight 01/01/1970.
Unfortunately the VB DateAdd function is adding an hour to the time as it
was interpreted on the Unix system.  It appears as though DateAdd is ...

I am writing an activex control and I need to know what its parent
container is.
If I query for it, "Usercontrol.Parentcontrol.name", it returns the
name of the form not the frame that it resides in.

First I am not a VB programmer, I am a C++ programmer that has written
an OCX for VB programmers.  I need to develop a VB demo program for my
OCX that uses a progress or status dialog.  I searched but could not
find anything.   Does any one know of any sample code?

I have seen some good discussion in this group regarding the
outlook-style Panel control. I fully agree this type of pane on the
left-hand, like a side-bar, is genetically not a MDI. Instead, I feel
it is more like an explorer style, (a special type of SDI,)  only

I have a text file with name, address, phone and some of unuseful line
of text.
I would like to extract only name, address, and phone and put them into
3 column in excel.

I have to Import some date values from a CSV file in to ACCESS 2003 .
the Data in the CSV files as
5/11/2006,10:14:52,89127,0,Hu,VID,Success,1,64,56,K,250,*
5/10/2006,07:39:31,9,0,Nabeel,VID,Failure,0,17,64,K,250,*

Hey guys,
I have a simple tab seperated text file and i have to convert that into
excel and upload to a mysql database.
Is there a script to do that let me know plz. Appreciate ur help.

I have an App made using VB6. It is used to control an external device via a
serial COM Port.
Now, one of our customers wants to intall this app onto his server, and run
it from multiple workstations.

I need to do some date/time formatings but get different results depending
on the setting of short-date format in control panel.
What I want to do is:
I have:

Anybody know, if there is any limitation of no of lines of code in Class file?
I am facing some issues, my class file contains 52535 lines of code. When I
compile the code, VB6 compiler hangs. When I comment one of the
procedure/function (almost 100 lines of code) anywhere in file ...

When using VB6, a TextBox Text is saved to a file on my hard disk drive.  I
then clear the TextBox.  Problem:  If I open the OPEN dialog window but click
on the CANCEL button, the previous saved file is reloaded into my TextBox.  
How can I prevent this from happening?