VB Forum / General / May 2006

I've got a COM add in for Word and I'd like to use VBA macros to process
information gathered by a form in the addin.  The form collects information,
creates a couple of arrays and some additional variables that are used to
fill in information in a document template. I can of ...

is it possible to give a simple label a transparent background?
Thank you
Ole

Form1.Show
mssql = "SELECT  [PO Number], Qty, Cartons, OutTrailer, ShipDate From jcrew
WHERE     (SentEDI IS NULL) AND (ShipDate IS NOT NULL)"
Adodc1.RecordSource = mySQL

I'm having a problem with measuring/calculating a string width.
I'm familiar with string width calculation using a printer object and I have
been thinking of using that for this problem too even though a printer is
never part of the application.

I am modifying an existing app in VB 6.0. The program is trying to remove
some files from disc, which obviously fails if the file is opened in Word,
Excel or another editor. Is there a way to check for it beforehand (for any
editor)?

I would like to add a combo box to a form so a user can begin typing
characters and the list of matches will appear. How do I get that
functionality?

I have a database with different tables. Each table has a different
amount of fields.
I want to create Sets in which I save data from different tables.
So instead of saving a Query which saves the SQL I want to save the

Is it possible to define attachments using mailto ?
TIA
Guy

I have an old VB6 project that I am going to attempt to convert over to
VB.NET/Windows Forms. The problem is that the code is old and a lot of the
third party controls that were included in the project are now ancient
history and not installed on my machine. I know this is ...

Does any one know of any good free/fee tool for authoring VB project help
file. The file would be incorporated into a VB project, and as well, could
be printed out as hard copy manual for the app user.
Right now I am using MS word and the thing is such a big pain. Every little

Has anyone experience using mpeg2lib.dll with VB6?
I like to create an app that extracs a Picture from a mpeg2 clip.
Regards
Peter

I have a listview showing records.
The columns can be reshuffled.
Now I want to detect the lastname and the firstname columns when I
select the row.

I'm currently creating a monthly backup of Medical Teleconferences that
we do for our school.  The problem that I am afraid that I am going to
run into is this:
if I use system.diagnostics.process.start("FileName")  how do I specify

hi all is it possible to render command button saperately...

Using vb6 sp5.
I have a small program that runs fine in the IDE with Ctrl-F5
After compiling and running the exe the program crashes.
The error is in kernel32.dll