VB Forum / General / December 2006

I have a VB6 program which calls up Acrobat Reader PDF files. Is there any
way to extend this by adding a search parameter in the VB6 program to make
Acrobat go to a particular page or subject?

If I have a .bas file with Sub Main and I declare a global object that is a
collection of Stores, how will that object get "destroyed".
Inside the .bas I globally declare Public gobjstores as CStores
Inside the sub main I have a line that instantiates the object Set

I want to take some input and output using parallel port, can any body
guide me in this regard. I am using win xp.

I am trying to figure out how to embed an image in a file that contains
other information, is there a way to do this?
Thanks
Dan

I've been using VB.NET for several years to program Internet Explorer,
to navigate through websites, fill out forms, save web pages, etc etc.
Now I have the need, though, to navigate to several hundred URLs for
PDF files and download these PDF files to my computer. If I use the

I have this code in c++ :
typedef struct{
   prWChar           DeviceInternalName[512];    /* Internal devicve name
(512 characters) */

I've had more than a fair crack of the whip here, and it seems I've created
several misunderstandings, and that any further attempts to show what the
problem is will only cause further grief. I appreciate those who've tried to
help. I'll not bother you any more. If anyone feels ...

Hi, I want to use vb to save a file which I have downloaded using a http
request, however it keeps confusing the characters chr(0) and chr(32) how do
i stop this or is there a better way to use the 'put' statement to avoid this?
This is the http request code:

Does anybody have a working example of sending an Identify (0xEC)
command to a hard disk in Win XP?
I have found information and examples on the web but they all appear to
be in VC or Delphi.

Hello all...
I recently obtained a copy of Visual Basic .NET 2002.    I have been doing
desktop and networking for 15 years, and I am completely burnt out on it.
I would like to move into programming, but haven't programmed anything since

In a VB6 program I move a picturebox to the current mouse position.
This action is triggered by a mousedown event on a usercontrol.
Continuing to move the mouse, I was expecting the mousevents to reach
the picturebox, but they continue to go to the usercontrol.

Scenario:-
1) Make your title bar bigger than the Windows default by going into Display
Properties in Windows XP.
2) Create a VB6 application with a MDI and MDI child form.

I've been trying to figure out if there’s a simpler way to check if a list
of variables have distinct values. This is what I have been using but it’s
too long.
Note : there are 4 variables : LnPos(0 to 3)

Hi group,
I have a VB6 program that uses a twain driver and scans documents into
a folder. Currently I save the scanned documents as a jpg file and then
view it using the Picture control or the Image control.

I know this has been a hot button issue for those of us in the US.
On Dec 12th, Microsoft released a patch to correct this for us. More info
can be found under KB928388 in the knowledge base. Windows Update should
auto-detect/install this patch for most.