VB Forum / General / September 2006

Our VB6 application opens documents using shellexecute and the
following code:
lRet = ShellExecute(GetDesktopWindow(), sOperation, sFile, sArgs,
sDirectory, sShowCMD)

I'm trying to read specific information from a text file.  I need to
get stuff like invoice date, invoice number and account number
(9/18/06, 586007, 1543 respectively)  i was able to use a stream reader
to display the text in a textbox for viewing, but i want to pick these

   I am making a tool in VB 6.0 to convert Server Side Java script to
JSP. Hence there is a need where i need to write to a file at a
specific position or line, after i have read the whole file once. I
have tried FileSystemObject, TextStream. They seem to give Bad File

I am struggling to understand how the Send Input Function is used to send
mouse clicks to Forms in another running application.  Within VB6, I can
identify the other Application's Form handle and the required Text Box handle
I want to check but don't understand the construct of ...

I use standard MS Word (97) launch:
dim mobjword as Word.Application
.
.

Just a quick question.....
When a program has multiple forms and associated code for each form, what
determines which form and code is executed first?
Thanks

I posted this last week and I guess it must have been lost in the
shuffle.... if anyone has advice it is greatly appreciated. ...
I wrote a script in ASP to parse XML data retrieved from a remote
website.  Everything worked fine.  Now I need to port it over to VB6

I'm sorry if this one has been asked and answered a million times:
Is it possible to have a VB6 app alter the name of an *existing* field
in Access 2002 database?  To be clear, I'm not talking about adding a
new field to the Access database.  I want to change the name of an

Is there some kind of formula for mapping specific
bitmap pixels to a DIB? This would be 24-bit.
  What I'm thinking of is to do something like put,
say, a blue border on the outside 10 pixels, all

I am having difficulty solving a textfile import issue.  The portion of the
textfile below needs to be imported by a propritary software's import
feature.  I have no control over the import requirements. What I need is to
code a loop in VB6 that will go through the textfile, pick ...

I set a reference to MSXML3.dll
<code>
dim objHttp as new XMLHTTP30
objHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", _

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if there's such a
things as a free VB5 or VB6 compiler?  I like using the VB5CCE as a way
to prototype VBScript/ASP code, and over time some of those prototypes
have turned into somethings that could be nice, little desktop ...

Was wondering if anyone has for sale or download the October 2001 MSDN Disk.
Thank You.

Technologies involved:-
    1. Visual Basic 6.0 with SP6
    2. Windows XP Professional with SP2
    3. Oracle 9i

Hello All:
I am using an Access database and want to create code to mimic the actions
of the data control. I created a form to link to 1 table using the data
control and now would like to be able to do that through code. I confirmed