VB Forum / General / December 2006

I have a file associated with my application.  I would like to be able
to double click on the file and launch the application with some custom
settings as defined in the contents of the text file. I use the
Command() argument to capture the text file's (custom extension)

Is there a method through which I could find the CPU utilization of a
PC?
A function similar to GlobalMemoryStatus, which gives you the memory
load of a computer (among other info), will be useful.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas.
Using vb5 I am trying to loop through a folder and select files within a
certain date range and copy to another location. Someone here gave me the
syntax (or maybe I got it via Google) and I now can't find it. Can someone

Pls help..This is the scenario
I have Name: TextBox
Address: TextBox
Add Button

Hi there ( Christmas Greetings)
I am constructing some forms on which data will be entered. I need to
save this data to either a database (access or oracle) or spreadsheet
(excel)

I want to give in where I can find the stamp in my books).and in each
book I can put 50 stamps (with documentations about the composer and
his works, where he was born, died, ....). So I have created two fields
who can count in the tabel stamps  wehere I made a field composers that

I created an EXE (in VB6) for a set of 18 modules and seven forms originally
written and executed using VB3.  The first thing i noticed is that the
vb6.exe is 720KB and the vb3.exe 473KB.
Is that a normal size change for an exe when converting from vb3 to vb6?

Option Explicit
Private Type aLong
   L As Long
End Type

I've been working on an application that uses the following from Randy Birches'
site, to grab the URL from the last opened IE window:
Link to Randy's page: http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/internet/browserurl.htm
 Private Sub Form_Load()

I have 20 player images and 20 monster images and I need to handle them for a
game by refering to all of them in all combinations therefore I need to be
able to refer to a control in a better way.... Here is what I have:
monster1pic.visible = true

I have a lengthy code in vb and i am using visual studio 6.0.
What is the shortcut key to move to an endif statement of a particular
if statement...and end of curly braces if i select the start of that
brace!. i have used shorctut keys with matlab..can someone help?

I have VB6 EE on WinXP SP2.
I am trying to create a bilingual software with some text controls which
should accept only Arabic based languages' input. Is there any way to switch
system's language from English to Arabic or Urdu in Visual Basic 6?

I am searching an example how to make http post in visual basic (I need to
post zipped file, not xml file), but google returns mostly (only?) pages with
examples in dot.net.
Can someone, please, give me some pointers how to do this in visual basic?

Hi i am using vb6, so any body inform me the following statment.
If (x >= Shape1.Left And _
          x <= Shape1.Left + Shape1.Width And _
          Between(y, Shape1.Top - 50, Shape1.Top + 50)) Or _

hi to all,
can anybody plz help me out to find .tiff files dpi.
can i read the file header and get the dpi. using XResolution or
YResolution.