VB Forum / General / June 2006

In regular combo box, you can set the Style of the combo box to be "Dropdown
combo" so that you can type and autocomplete the text.
Can I do this in an ImageCombo box ?
Thank you.

Hi ! I often keep emule running for few days when I'm not at home.
ADSL connection always hangs (cause of bug in emule or whatever) and
the only way to reestablish connection is to restart computer. I'm
looking for program that automatically restarts computer If there's no

I have three recordsets which I would like to stick into one recordset which
would then run a datalist.  Any ideas on how I can do this?  I tried set
rst_single = rst1 + rst2 + rst 3 but it gave me an error.
Appreciate any help on this.

Is there a way in VB6 to read a property name and value from a text file and
convert it literally into the corresponding property?
Suppose I have in a text file:
Text1.Caption = "Tom"

Does anyone have a sense of how long vb6 will continue to be supported?  It's
my understanding that vb6 apps are still actively being developed and is
still considered when planing new applications..

have a string that is 100 characters long, I need to get the first 50,
How can I do that in VB?
I haven't coded in VB in years and I forget the syntax for it.
I tries this but it gives me a compile error:

sorry for the bat english!
i have the a problem with vb.net. I try to create a program that copy the
marked text from any program to an variable. the the tray program open an
other program that use the variable.

I have vb6 code to change local passwords for accounts on member servers {NT,
2k, & 2k3}. A friend had code to "check" domain passwords by using
ads_secure_authentication. Basically if the error number returned was
anything other than 0 the password was wrong. I was wanting to ...

I started a thread at
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?p=1158500#post1158500.
I believe the problem is with Ghost, but I want others to validate this
opinion before I consider

How to make an application to work as demo version, later by using some
registration code, it should be converted to full version. is it
possible to do with the help of VB6.? if yes then can you pleaseeeee
explain

Sorry for the subject of the previous post; I'm a dolt...  ActiveForm, not
ActiveWindow...  Original post follows:
Hi all!
Working on a bit of code that's confusing me:

Hola a ver si alguien me puede ayudar. Por que cuando arrastro un Frame
sobre otro este desaparece y no puedo colocarlo encima.
Gracias

How can i clear the debug window at runtime in ide ?
tia
pc

I am using VB6 and I am processing 1000's of images.  I need to be able to
get each images dimensions (height & width). Is there a VB function that
can do this?
Thanks

Strange. My original post seems to be got stuck in the filters. At least
it does not show up. Perhaps because there are some names in it naming a
product and a company MS could hickup on.
So reduced to the link: