VB Forum / General / June 2006

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Bought the book Advanced Visual Basic 6 by Matthew Curland from Amazon.
Unfortunately, there is no CD with it. I got a refund, but it seems that
without the CD the book is not much use.
I think there might be a general problem to get hold of this CD.

I want to write a program to analyse some pictures. I need my program to be
able to distinguish the colors of the different points of the picture. For
example I give it the X and Y of that point, and it gives me its color.
How is it possible?

I know I've done this successfully in the past but it's presently got me
stumped.
Platform is Win98, VB6 sp6.
Referencing "Microsoft Excel 8.0 Object Library"

A few weeks Olaf Schmidt posted a VB6 routine to sort a 1-D array of strings
very fast indeed.
This was in the thread: fastest way to change case of string.
Now I wonder if I could use this code to sort a variant 2-D array where the

I was working fine in VS 2005 before I was moved to a new computer where VS
2005 was newly installed.   Before I moved Intellisense was working
beautifully in either the VB portion of an aspx page or the html page.  But
now it only seems to work for the HTML portion.  I've looked ...

I'm trying to make something happen when I double-click an item in a
listview control. There is no "dblclick" event for the control, but the
"MouseUp" event seems to always work.
So, I'm setting a flag and enabling a timer on the first MouseUp. The

I am filling a collection with data.
and i am trying to find the best was go get the collection.
i want to fill the collection at the begining of the application.
then I have a lot of classes i want to access the collection in.

On one machine that I work on the form widths are nysetiosly narrowed
by the IDE. Has anyone heard of this behavior?

can someone please help me. Is there anyway to work out given todays
date what the date was 2 weeks ago?
thanks shawrie

I am investigating as to how to transfer files between two computers that have IR (Infra
Red) ports. My Google experience yielded two methods:
1. Use winsock control with Protocol property set to 2
2. Use MSCOmm control in conjunction with a virtual seral port driver for Irda

I have an array with elements 0 - 5 called mstrDiag . I'm using the
following loop to add non-blank elements to an MS Access table using a
Data Environment.
Dim intIndex As Integer

I think this question may be simpler than it looks. To pursuade the
mci doofer to save, I have to convert the file path to the short
format - i.e. spaces removed and the addition of Wiggly Things. This
works fine in W98, but do later version of windows recognise this

on error goto 0
what exactly happens with this line in a code?