VB Forum / General / August 2006

This is for a Keno Lotto that has a Total Pool of 80 Numbers ( Numbers
1 to 80 ) of which you can Choose Anything from a Minimum of 1 Number
to a Maximum of 20 Numbers from the 80 Numbers.
What I would like to do is to have 4 Input Boxes Appear that Ask for :-

Can anyone point me to finding a formula for calculating an annual rate of
return given a starting and ending amount and a variable number of  unequal
deposits and withdrawals and variable times.
I have found numerous examples dealing with fixed periodic fixed deposit

I have the following problem, maybe somebody can help me:
In a PictureBox control I load an EMF file, then in a MouseMove event,
I recognize the polygon in which the mouse cursor is moving, then I
color filling it.

I have a string that I need to parse based on the number of elements.
Using the string....
string="a,abc,car,bread,number,the,word,world,never,before"
I would want to parse the string into three items per parsed string,

Are there any native VB6 utilities that can expose the Computer Name and the
local user's MS domain controller Username?  The environment is XP PC's
authenticated via MS domain controllers.  If not native, are the Windows
resources relative easy to utilize from VB6?

I am using the VB application when I am running my application some
error messages were displayed in German.
1) Not all error messages were displayed in german.only few.
2) one error message is : "Multistep operation please check the status

What function do I use to determine the amount of days since the first of Jan
of the current year?? That is the user enters todays date how do i find out
how many days have elapsed so far this year??????

I have a VB6 app that runs fullscreen without any borders on the form,
sort of like an old dos game. I want to take a screenshot and save it
to a file, preferably as a jpg image, on the local filesystem. From my
readings it is probably best to avoid use of the clipboard. The current

I have traffic device Marksmann 400.
I connect traffic device to PC by com1 port (rs232)
I use MsComm in VB and send command to device: receive all files from
device. I need use standart Ymodem protocol to reveive files from device.

In vb6 I have a picture as the background on my form. I need to put a
handful of option buttons and checkboxes inside of a container, that I
will pragmatically be toggling the enabled state of throughout the life
of the program.

I am hoping someone may have some code to do this.  Can anyone supply
me with some VB code that will cycle through a directory of text files
and remove the first three lines of each file without whitespace being
left for the removed lines.

I need receive some files from some device by standart Ymodem protocol.
Which function or control I must use  in VB for this operation and where I
can read about programming Ymodem and Zmodem protocol.
Thanks.

To access a database I put data control on a form. Then in connect
property I select Access. Next in database name I select one access
file (*.mdb). But when I want to set the Recordsource property to a
particular table in that file I encountered the following error

I am new to creation of COM DLL.
I have created a COM DLL but i really confused about creating a function and
using it in a VB application.
Can someone please guide me and give an example code for a sample function.

I want to be able do something like this in VB6 :-
Type xx
   Name as string * 10
   Title as string * 30