VB Forum / General / December 2006

I have a file listbox that I would like to sort by date. Is this possible?
If it is not possible is there a free file listbox custom control that will
do this?
If no to both above, how could I simulate this with a standard lsitbox?

a) I have a VB form with a textbox.
b) Metrologic Scanner with USB interface, it is not RS-232 emulatation. It
is HID type of device.
My question is how can I tell if the scanner is putting data in the txtbox

I am hoping someone might be able to help me.
I am writing some PC based software in Visual Basic 6.0 for an embedded
system that has multiple ATMEL micro-controllers in it. (one master and
some slaves)  The Atmel micro's have a serial boot loader with in them

Hi the below code looks through a query and creates a point on a map
for each record.
However rather than just going through each record, I need to do a kind
of secondary sort on the query. For example...there may be 100 records

Anyone know why the below array doesnt work?
Dim locations() As MapPoint.Location
   Set locations(1) = objMap.FindResults("Los Angeles, California")(1)
   Set locations(2) = objMap.FindResults("Honolulu, Hawaii")(1)

Hi All,
Newbie vb6
I enter data on form1 and save it to a .mdb file. Form2 is a search engine
which retreives the data from the .mdb file. When I try to search the most

Does anyone know if there is a news group that handles the Microsoft
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition?
Many thanks
Vulcan Bomber (101 Squadron)

In a multi-select list box I want to be able to disable a button if nothing
is selected.
I know that I can use FileList.selected(index) to run through the list and
check it, but is there a way of referring to the entire list in one

Here's my problem...
I need to run records from an excel database through an online form,
then copy the results of the form back to excel somewhere.  The problem
is that I can't get VB to click the submit button.  I keep getting an

Does anyone know if there is a way to notify an application when a
third app has ended? In other words, I have two apps A and B, and I
want whenever app B terminates, force the termination of app A. A
possible solution could be the use of a timer at app A and a periodic

I'm considering creating a database where users select values for a
given VB object model definition.
e.g. if a user wants to specify a prompt for a msgbox. they would
select msgbox as the object type, then prompt as the property type then

When writing a COM Class in a dll in C++ - which will mostly be accessed
only from VB6 and VBA, what is the best type to use for passing Strings
from VB to the class.  And what about returning Strings back to VB -
both as "ByRef" arguments and as function return types?

How can I get the length of a string (in characters) ?
I tried using "Len" function, but in japanese text I get:
Len = (characters number)*2 + 1
Yoav.

I had this problem, I had developed and application that read and write
to database. I'm using Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library and
msdac 2.8. I have install my application using MS SQL Server 7
standard, MS SQL Server 2000 standard and MS SQL Server 2005 standard

I'm desperately trying to send escape codes to a Zebra LP2844.
I've been through the forums and found loads of info, but I can't get
the printer to output what is sent to it!
I've tried every example I can find using API calls to winspool.drv