VB Forum / General / June 2006

How do I access the project/properties/make/command line arguments string
with code in a compiled vb6 app.  I want to click-start my app and have it use
the string I created and use in dev mode.  I know how to use the Command()
function to get the string in dev mode or within a ...

Have you ever heard of this error?
Method 'Cols' of object 'IMSHFlexGrid' failed
When trying to load data into a Hierargical Flex grid "manually" for a text
file, using .addItem method.

At my company we have a need for a web browser that is locked down. We
were unable to block the View->Explorer Bar menu (wich let them browse
the c drive) so we decided to try and make a web browser in VB6 using
the ie control for the web browser.  The problem is a page we use uses

I have a problem with the OpenFile dialog that I use in my program.
I created a Browse button to allow for the selection of a text file that is
processed by my program. The Browse button works perfectly when the .EXE is
on my station. If I copy the .EXE to a network drive, the ...

Im doing a OCX with VB6, while i testing it i start it and it work fine
when vb opens the browser and includes the ocx, and locally i have a
test file where i've put the object tag and it work when the project is
running in vb, but once it's close there nothing to do?

I have tried the CurDir function, but sometimes it returns a directory of
another drive - e.g. if I'm running my application in C:\myapp and I have
another drive P, then the current directory for the P drive is sometimes
returned from CurDir. How can I get the current directory ...

I've got a class with an array of a user-defined type contained strings,
integers, booleans and RECT structures. The class exposes a property in the
form:
Friend Property Get MyType(ByVal iPos As Integer) As typMyType

Another strange problem:
I have a checkbox control onto my form and in Form_Load() I specify
check1.Enabled=False.
However, after the form has loaded the checkbox control is still enabled.

I'm stumped over something that should be very simple. I'm trying to
find the total number of bytes in the files on a CD/DVD/floppy.
I use a recursive function to load an array with the paths to each file
on the selected volume, then I use this code:

I'm currently working on a Point of Sales application all is basically
done but now I'm trying to the Barcode Scanner to work with it and I
can't get the focus issue resolved. How can I restrict the focus for
the scanner to a particular field?

Hi,
I am creating a windows application in which, based on some logic, I need to
upload all the contents (images) of each folder ( from client's machine) to
the server.

How do  i pass a cstring to a borland c++ dll?
This does not work.
Declare Function myC.dll Lib "mydll.dll" (ByVal Value As string)  As Long
TIA

hopefully this isn't too ot since it involves a vba routine(i think the
question is general to vb though)
working on a simple in house tool to run in autocad vba.
on a simple form is an ocx stored(on my machine) at

Hello, I have two questions:
1) I need to make a diamond shape on a form. To do this, I created a
square and was trying to rotate it 45 degrees. Is this possible? If
not, is there an easy way to make a diamond shape?

How do programmatically select a row in a listview to duplicate the
way it would look if I single clicked the row The  Follwoing code
select the row but does not make it look the same as if I clicked it
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