VB Forum / General / July 2006

When I call the GetDiBits function with a correctly dimed array i still
get a out of range error which makes my program crash. Does anyone have
any suggestions for me.  I'm new to the coding world and don't know
much.

I am trying to record a .wav sound without MCI api or MMControl.
Please, any idea ou suggestion ?    
I'm using VB 6.0.    
Thanks.

We have had some requests to capture a signature with our asset management
application.  Anyone have any experience with hardware to do that?  And
routines with ADO and Access or Sql Server to do that?  After the capture
how about presentation in a report?

I am getting error "Multiple step OLE DB operation generatied errors. Check
each status value" while opening a recordset with records of nearly 4300000.
The records are unique in the table.
I am using the below coding to open the recordset.

If I allocate a byte array in VB6 and then get a pointer to that buffer, how
do I ensure that the pointer remains valid, basically that VB6 doesn't start
moving the memory block around? Here's an example to illustrate. The memory
allocates fine and the pointer is fine, but has a ...

Is there a Low-Values/High-Values equivalent data value in Visual Basic that
is used in COBOL?
Thanks!

I'm trying to modify the sample MSCOMM\VBTERM program to make a "smart"
terminal, sending and receiving binary data.  As a test, I'm sending a
few bytes from my application every time I hit a key.  MSComm1.Output
appears to be sending everything inside the "" as ASCII, even the ...

Can't start VB6: I get an error message "Unexpected error; quitting".
I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times over the past few days
trying to resolve this, with SP6.
The article 189472 suggests that MSO97RT.DLL and MRT7ENU.DLL must be in

After having performed many tests to find a way to send email by vb I've
choosen to use vbsendmail.dll since it is very easy to use.
I've succesfully implemented vbsendmail in my source. I've noted that
vbsendmail.dll writes the text in raw text format, hence no formatted text.

I need to send a chr(255) to a serial port, in VB.Net 2005 Express with
Framework 2.0
When I send it, the machine on the other side receives a chr(63) ... why
does this happen, and how can I make it send the actual chr(255) I need ?

For a long time I have been using the following code to control a
comboboxes drop don height
the problem is that itdoes not work of the combobox s in a frame How
come and is there a way arond it

Anybody has a good solution ? PDF ?
Thanks for any suggestion.

Hello, I'm trying to find a soloution onto how to detect specific keyboard
events with the focus on a different application.
Example, I can get the form to deal with KeyPresses fine as long as it is
focused:

I need to find the the position of the 6th instance of ":" in a string.
Should I use instr in a loop 6 times or is there an easier way?

I am having an issue when attempting to read the .Hour property of
win32_currenttime.
The following code produces the single right digit of .Hour property
only sometimes.  It doesn't make any sense...