VB Forum / General / May 2006

I'm trying to make a part number app for a friend using Access DB and
VB6.It's a fairly simple app with a single table, 6 field DB.Form has a
FlexGrid,three comboboxes and a Picturebox and a command button for
searchs.Two combos have Dates from 1950 to present year, combo1(0) is

What is an efficient way to print a displayed form containing a grid of
textboxes using the Print Dialog feature of VB6?

I am a VB6 beginner. Is there an easy way for me to write a video cutting
program or it needs advanced programming skills?
I want my program to cut and split some parts of my video and audio files.
Thank you

Hi ,
  I created a program in VB6 and call the DTS to run. But when I deployment
on user's PC, the program failed to run. I try to register the DTSPkg.dll and
DTSPump.dll manually on user's PC but I failed to do that.

I am developing a VB6 app that opens a Word document to
recursively find a word delimited with | (eg |name|) and replace
it with a string which I prompt the user for.  I have tried some
variations of selection.find but can't work it out correctly.

i was just browsing at the app methods which i failed to notice from a
pretty long time .
I have just came across to some of the methods like
App.OleRequestPendingMsgText

Need help, anyone?
I have a new form with only one small TextBox in it.  When I attempt to
place a Label box in it, the name of the Label disappears;i.e., the Label
goes behind the TextBox.  I've been unsuccessful with using the properties of

I would like to write a program to rename all of my pictures from my digital
camera, placing the date/time that I took the picture in the name of the
file.  However, when I sat down to do that, I realized that the
FileSystemObjects do not provide access to the advanced file ...

Newlog = Format(Hex(CNumber), "0000000#")
using above code I would expect to have Newlog always containing 8 digits
but that is not true.
For example:

I want to add the name of a combobox on fly, like this:
strSQL = "SELECT DISTINCTROW nationalities.nationality FROM
Nationalities " & _
           "ORDER BY nationalities.nationality"

I develop a small application in visual basic.
In fact, my application send a file between 2 PC, I use the socket.
but I have a problem :
When I choose a file in my hard disc, I can read small part, put this

Some help please.
I have written my reports using the VB6 version of the DataReport without
problems.
When I show them they display at 100%,  which is a little large as the user

I've got an app which is basically one main form and many usercontrols used
for data entry, lists, etc.
I often get the above error. Can anyone explain why it occurrs and how to
avoid it?

I bet a million people have directed me to VB help, and I'd love to
look there, but I have a very basic problem.
When I open VB help(V 6.3), I get the standard Contents, Answer Wizard
and Index tabs, but when I try to enter text in any of the entry boxes,

Is it *still* a bad thing to use CreateThread in a VB6 application?  I
know it causes some issues during debugging; in terms of moving in and
out of the VB IDE... but are there issues beyond this?
I found some messages from a few years ago that basically seemed to