VB Forum / General / June 2006

I'm using a textbox with a vertical scrollbar to display the communication
between my PC and a Printer.  Everytime I send or receive something to and
from the printer, I add a line in the textbox.Text with vbNewLine at the end.
My question is when I watch the data in the textbox ...

How?
Thank you

Is there a way to enumerate all time zones in the same way as display when
setting the system clock?
eg. (GMT +1:00) Amsterdam, Berlin... etc...
Thanks,

Like it sez: What API or VB call (that can be called from a MDI Child)
yields the usable inside dimensions of the MDI Parent?
I know SPI_GETWORKAREA gets me the display's available area. I need
something similar to retrieve the parent form's information so that I can

I have a VB application that displays text data, which is generated
from a callback function in a DLL. It works great until the form losses
focus, at which point the program crashes.
Has anybody seen anything like this?

Table Fields are tbldate,empname,timein,timeout ,time(Short Time Formats)
I inserted timein  and timeout Then I used
t1 = rs.Fields("timein")
t2 = rs.Fields("timeout")

I have a VB 6 function which creates an ActiveX object using CreateObject,
and occasionally I get an error that says "It is illegal to call out while
inside message filter".  I have found in MSDN docs where this can occur in a
WM_TIMER event if a pending WM_TIMER event is still ...

I'm using vbalgrid component from vbaccelerator! It seems pretty good
but now I'm stuck with something. I'd like to click with the right
button on a row and bring a popupmenu. The problem is that I dont know
how to do that. I can't find an event which tells me which mouse button

I have mapped some drives as network shares on my computer. I have several
shares from several servers.
Now I need a function to find out the IP-Adress from the server which hosts
the share.

I like to create a thumbnail from a given bitmap but also want to preserve
the aspect ratio of that picture.
The bitmap should be shrinked and centered inside the thumbnail
Example:

If you create an ActiveX EXE and set it to "standalone" startup so that you
can launch the program directly or launch it by referencing it in another
program, is there any way, from within the ActiveX EXE to determine how it
was launched?

Is there a way to change the Value of a Label.Text Property outside an
Application, such as the contents of a data.txt file or ini file or something
like that.
I would like to be able to change this property without going into VB

Hi there, First post in here so Hey!
Anyways, at work, we are using some code to do with Regular Expressions.
Now this code seems to be working fine on ComputerA, but on ComputerB it
doesnt work.

This also seems to have a simple solution but I haven't found it yet:
My program has a main form(form1) and if a user presses a button then I open
a second form(form2) using the statement
form2.show vbmodal

I've done a bit with Word and Excel macros for about 2 years, and I've
dabbled in VB6 only once or twice.  I have the Learning Edition (I
didn't take a class; I obtained this legally (AFAIK) from another
person).