VB Forum / General / October 2006

I have several buttons in a window and every button should repeat an
action every 10 seconds when toggled. It is an ON/OFF button.
When I click Button1 ON then the button 1 should receive data from a
port every 10 seconds and keep doing that till i make that OFF state.

I'm trying to use an approach like this to list all of the computers in
the current OU in Server 2003.
Is there any way to read the OU dynamically from any machine instead of
having to hard-code it?

What I would like to do is, I have a server that I wanted to broadcast
information over the network, and have about 5 clients listening on a
specified port. They all receive the information and process it what ever why
I want it to.  I can do this on a single point to point ...

When I write
Length(some_string)
my VB6 changes it to
length(some_string)

I am having a problem in running a VB 6.0 program in debug mode on Windows XP
SP1/SP2 system.    
I get  ‘System Error &H80004005 Unspecified Error.’  
Again, this only happens if my project has a class file marked as

   i am getting kernel 32 error every time closing my vb exe filse,
Some time system hanging am working win98 and vb6 backend oracle 8i.....

how can i print to the default printer in vbscript
example (in vb):
For i = 0 To 1000 Step 100
   Printer.Line (i, 0)-(i, 1000)

When I write
Length(some_string)
my VB6 changes it to
length(some_string)

I have an app that presents a list of project items in rows in a grid,
with columns representing time periods that show when each item is
dealt with.
Much like MS Project, which is where I would like to export the data.

i remember when .net came out you could get the .net controls from component
one for free
the best thing was, it came with all the activex controls from component one
for free to

[I am C++ programmer, not too familiar with VB]
I am looking at the code snippet at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q170918/
It contains these lines:
     Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

I have an application which opens files.
In my MDI form I have a menu which shows the MRU files.
I want to build some code which clears this list.
I tried this code:

I am using the VBA that came with my Access 2000. When defining and
calling custom functions and subroutines, is there a way to pass
parameters by reference, so that the function/subroutine can change
them? I know I can get roughly the same effect by using public

I draw some pictures and like on a form.
The object should be in the middle of the form (Me.ScaleWidth \ 2,
Me.ScaleHeight \ 2).
Now I want to use the Me.Scale function to zoom in and out.

I have a rather complicated problem.
I have a form on which I draw some pictures:
[Class Box]:
Public stdPic As StdPicture, X As Long, Y As Long, Text As String,