VB Forum / General / July 2006

This is what I'm trying to achieve:
1. Application starts through Sub Main. Calls a separate exe to check for
Updates.
2. Update checks for any new updates and if any found, displays a form and

I have a program which works fine in win98 . However under XP the routine
Set Keyboard state and get keyboard state dont appear ro work .
I have little test program which just turns the lights on and off. This does
not work.

Hope someone can help?
I am looking for a vbscript that will generate a folder structure. I
have a folder with 100's of folders in it. I am looking for a script
that will drill into each of these folders and then make some new

My program flashes when it is done, and I have MouseDown events for all the
controls so the user can stop the flashing by just clicking most anywhere on
the Form.
However, it seems that there is no MouseDown event for the drive list

Seveal months ago I downloaded from the MSNBC web page the MSN toolbar with
desk top search onto my Windows 2000 Professional system.  Since then Outlook
takes about a minute to come up and almost every time I open an email it
takes on average of up to 45 seconds to open.  It is ...

I have a large VB6 program that has loaded and worked fine up till today.  It loaded fine yesterday, by the way.
Now I get and error message when I try to access the form "Main".  The log file reports:
line 1580 Cannot load control frmToolBar; license not found
line 1599 Cannot load ...

How can I test to see if a DLL is registered or not?

I finally have success implementing my first DLL function, I have exported a
C++ function with a DLL using the "Declare" statement in Basic, but now I
have a doubt, how can I to pass an array in the DLL function parameters
list, I need to pass y return the same array, but changed, ...

When I get a message in my VB AIM client, it is in the form of HTML.
<tag><tag><tag>message.</tag></tag></tag>
Is there a function that will remove that html so users can see a clear
message, or, is there a way to process that HTML data, remove tags that don't

I have VB6 Learning Edition. I want to have some kind of Help & I don't want
to go thru the hassle of learning HTML Help or Windows Help. I can use an
external text file, but if the file is missing then VB will complain. I'd
like to experiment with the Resource Editor. What is ...

i have a VB6 application  which currently uses a com+ dll to access, update
and delete all data. Currently whenever i need to add a new reportt i need to
add a new procedure to the dll to pull back the required recordset. should i
connect directly to the SQL server for Crystal ...

Apologies if this is a basic question, but I've found several suggestions
through google of how to do this and none of them seem to be working
(note: this is in VB6, on a Windows 2000 PC)
I want to create an exe where, on the click of a button, a specific file on

I'd like to draw this kind of 3D charts :
http://perso.orange.fr/wininger.emeric/XL/xl_3d_graph.jpg (get from Excel)
with a MSChart control (in VB5).
Is it possible ? If yes, how ?

I have created a form that controls the copying of several files. After
each file is copied it is added to a listbox. By problem is that after a
while the form stops gettin updated. When I move the form I find an identical
form beneath it. This clone is getting the display ...

I am working on a project, as an intern, using Access 2003 with VBA
code referring to a previous project that is being overhauled.
I saw the statement "Option Compare Database" at the top of each
fform's Code view.  What is it?