VB Forum / General / June 2006

I've been having a real (albeit stupid) problem getting Auto_Activate to work
with
sheets in my Workbook. I can work around it for my current app, but
anticipate a

I'm trying to read in small chunks from a large file. I use the
following code snippet:
   iFile = FreeFile
   Open sFile For Binary Access Read As #iFile

I have a feeling that the answer maight be very simple but I have no idea at
the moment:
Is there a way to detect that the user has moved my form with the mouse?
I thought that there is a event similar to "resize" but it does not exist?

How can I display the current record info(Record X of XXX) in a ADODC
control? Is it possible?
Greatly appreciate your suggestions and feed back.
Struggling to teach myself.

I am facing a strange issue with my new VB.Net app that I am making on
Windows XP.
All my buttons, and controls have the WinXP look in design time, but as soon
as I run them, the controls automatically change to Win98 style.

I use a label on a form which will be filled with text during runtime.
As the length of the text varies the control should display the text with a
fixed hor. length but the control should expand its size vertically and wrap
the text in new lines.

I have an app that builds, tests and runs fine on my system. But when I give
the file to anyone else to play with they get a 'Runtime Error 13: Type
mismatch'
I tried installing it on a different computer (my wife's) and got the same

If I have an enum:
Enum
   a=100
   b=109

What's the trick to getting the development environment to display labels
under the buttons in the Toolbox? With all these UserControl's having the
same icons it is getting pretty time consuming hovering the mouse over each
one and waiting for the balloon help to tell me which is ...

Maybe OT
Our concept VB6 app reads and writes to a MS Access database. We need to
somehow put a firewall/shield around the database so that only our app can
access it. Can someowe point me in the the right direction for doing this.

say i have an array with the following numbers
10,7,7,9,8,8,8,5,5,6,2
now i want the array to become
10,7,0,9,8,0,0,5,0,6,2

Hi. Suppose I have a backcolor on a picture box. The color is in decimal,
long type, format.
How can I add degradation to it?
For example, if the color were green, how can I make it light green o dark

I have been away from here for some time, so have missed a lot of postings,
so the following may have been answered.
I have a program used worldwide which includes the Webbrowser control to
link to my homepage for updates/FAQ etc and to PayPal for donations.

I probably already know this isn't going to happen using MSFlexGrid (and I'm
probably in the same boat with MSHFlexGrid) but I'll venture forth anyway.
I'm using a 2-column grid in a dialog box for user selection. It's all
populated and I've even allowed the user to sort on either ...

I've been trying this for hours - - I have this code (and have changed it a
lot - but this is what's now)
For intPos = 0 To cbcontent.ListCount - 1
' Here I need to get the text of each item