VB Forum / General / December 2006

Is this the way it is supposed to work?
Been VB6ing for years.
Button in a Frame on A Form.
The Frame Mouse Move event code executes code calls only on LeftButton and

I've inherited a project that has a very complex main form.
Think on the order of a tabbed dialog/form and you have the idea but
in this case the management of the tabs is done under program control.
It is currently complex and difficult to drill down to various 'tabs',

Newbie vb6
If the Text1.text is empty, I want to give a warnning message to users if
the user click on CheckBox1. After the messgae box appears, I want to set the
value of the checkbox to 0. The code below is working but it gives me the

Hi, I am trying to produce a help file in windows help. I am using VB6
profesional.
I am not sure what the compiler is called or how to invoke it. I am also no
sure how to create the help.hlp  I am using windows xp home edition. if I

I am trying to make a small game in which the user can move a miniature
over a map with grids. I used an Image Control to load the map from a
bmp file. Then in order to divide the map into grids, I used Shape
Control. I made a reference rectangle  shape with Transparent BackStyle,

I have multiple tabs on my application. I am using the Tab Control. The
different tabs show up as Pages. When I click on the tab it does not
trigger the Page_click event. When I click on the page it will trigger
it. Can someone please let me know how to trigger the tab.

In VB6, I dropped a Webbrowser control onto a form, set the properties
for menubar, statusbar and addressbar  to true, but  I do not get  the
menubar, status bar or addressbar. Anyone know why?
I  can navigate to any web page, get access to the html document and

I am trying to create a small VB6 application to allow me to update
fields in my Access 2000 database. I did have some success using
datagrids and text fields, but I'm looking to make it even simpler. I
am using Data Environment.

I have a VB6 application that uses the WebBrowser control - Upon
clicking on the control at runtime I get a run-time error -1
(untrappable error) consistently. This appears to be related
specifically to IE7 and the VB IDE.

I'm trying to write a simple routine to compare the contents of 2 files. The
first thing I need to do is to determine how many times a code appears in
file1. I get the code from each line in file1. Then I need to see if the
same code corresponds the same amount of times in file2 ...

Beginner question here:
I'm trying to debug a program
trying to figure best way to  handle different kinds of errors
some just need to report they occurred then take some kind of restorative

    I'm doing programming in Windows Mail (OS:- Windows Vista). I'm
using MAPI control to send mail to Windows Mail's Outbox. But it gives
"Windows Mail Security warnings" e.g. Another program is trying to send
mail to outbox. Do you want ot continue?. So if i'm sending mail to 10

I have a form that has a grid and a datacontrol on the left hand side of the
screen.  I have the detail information on one of the grid rows on the right
hand side of the screen connected to another data control.  When the user
clicks on a row in the grid I would like the detail ...

Is it possible to change for example the default backcolor of VB6 textboxes
to "Yellow" (without having to do it manually for each form and each
project)?
Thank you

I'm currently replacing a application I wrote with perl/Tk with VB.net.
Since this is very new to me (I don't even see actual code of lots of
things, e.g. database connections), I don't know how far I can
accomplish the same. The application now is just a single .exe file