VB Forum / General / December 2006

any one know of good hardware groups for usb issues?
Since debugging some errant vb6 code <g> the usb ports on my machine have
not worked
(I think I had to shut down the machine once to get out of a hung

How can I define an "event" for all the textboxes in a project from
different forms?
For example, I want the "Click" event for all of my textboxes to be:
MsgBox "Textbox Clicked!"

Declare Function lineMonitorTones Lib "tapi32.dll" (ByVal hCall As Long,
ByRef lpToneList As LINEMONITORTONE, ByVal dwNumEntries As Long) As Long
Type LINEMONITORTONE
   dwAppSpecific As Long

I have a PictureBox in my VB6 program and I want to make its size just the
same as screen size (Scale it, and make it fullscreen), but as much as I
tried and as much as searched in MSDN libraries, I couldn't find out exactly
how to do this. Would somebody please write the code to ...

I have a program where I place images into some of the menu items. When the
form looses focus the images disappear, and when the form gains focus they
come back. I'm using standard VB6 form menus. Is there a way to prevent this
or an alternative? Thanks

I write a dll and create to stander DLL (not Activex DLL, ref by the
article "Creating a Windows DLL with Visual Basic"
[url]http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/04/26/create_dll.html[/url]'),
in the DLL also using a system DLL. When I call my user DLL function, I

With a VB 6 Combobox (type 2) I was hoping to set the selected item to the
3rd item from the top when the dropdown is clicked.  I read that the
TopIndex property doesn't work with a type 2.  My first question is, does a
SendMessage CB_TopIndex call work with such a combob?.  If ...

I need to insure a previous instance of my application (VB6) in not running from the same folder,
from a different folder is OK.
Keeping a file open and looking for a file in use seems like a possibility.
Is there a better way?

W2K Pro SP3
VB6 SP3
Greetings all,
I've built a function to snip the n leftmost elements out of an array

From MSSDN:
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The LINEMONITORTONE structure describes a tone to be monitored. This is used
as an entry in an array. The lineMonitorTones and TSPI_lineMonitorTones

I am using VB6, and when I go to:
Project> Add User Control
and then set the "BackStyle" property of the UserControl to "Transparent", I
expect it to have no special BackColor and always accept the BackColor of

How can I create a document in WordPad or Notepad using VB
I would like to Create the file, Add text and save the file all from within
VB
Regards

Now when my little app is working, I want to run it on the laptop.
Running the "Deployment Wizard" and making an installation packet.
Running the "Setup.exe" on the laptop, install works great.
When starting the newly installed app on the laptop I get "Run-time

Hi there guys
I'm currently developing a word processor, based around a rich text box
and a common dialog control, using visual basic 6, and have come across
a couple of problems, I would be very grateful if anyone could help

I need to know how to tell if a file path is there, if it is run some
code:
       statusfile = "R:\Shared\Exchange_Data\COBA\SOS_Data\test.txt"
       Open statusfile For Append As #1