VB Forum / General / January 2007

Is there any way to play a movie in the background as desktop
wallpaper? I know gifs can animate, just curious if I could play
movies. Where to start looking? Thought I'd post here, I program in
vb6 and assuming I have to write something to do it. AVI, MOV,

I have a VB 6 app. that fires up Excel though OLE.  I have a test
system with Windows 2000 and Excel 97 and this works OK.  I have a
user with Windows XP and Excel 97 and it fails to start. I do not see
an obvious reason for this.

Cannot get the MSChart to use data from ADOrs source.  I have verified that
there are fields and values present in the RS.  Here is a sample of how the
data might look:
RowText      AnC       CxC       MaT     CqP

I have some code which loads the treeview information when the form
starts(load event). But the nodes don't get checked (any ideas/experiences)?
Thank you,
Rick.

How do I clean up the VB reference list?  I am talking about the
dialog that is displayed when you click the Project>References...menu
in the VB IDE.  I have several entries for components I evidently
compiled to several different locations (some of which no longer

i am in fresh in VB programming hence please help me to make link
between access table and visual basic form to save vb form entered
data in access table step by step.
for example:-

Heres the problem:
I have a VB6 program that I'm creating an installer for using Visual
Studio Installer.
The user that will be using the software has no local admin rights.

Can you centralise the text in a Form's Caption with code?

My VB6 project contains a reference to another VB6 .EXE, added through
Project-References.
The referenced EXE works fine, and so does my project. When I close my
main project down and re-open, the referenced EXE is listed as

Hi all. I need to create my own Setup program for my VB6 application. I was
trying to modify the standard Setup1.vbp, but it is very confusing. I don't
need all those screens/pages, and complexity. Does anyone have a minimum,
stripped down version of this Setup1.vbp that includes ...

The .Initdir setting is not always working for me in the code below.  It
works on my development machine and on some user's machines. On some, the
commondialog brings up the last directory used to retrieve a file (the
Windows current directory?) I'm pretty confident that the ...

Forgive the newbie question, but I have a small program (in VB6) which
writes data to a file, which by default is in the folder in which the
program resides.  I know that this is not appropriate as the permissions for
anyone who is not an administrator will not allow this.  What ...

Bought a new laptop - WinXP Tablet - for VB6 development.
It does not seem to understand Windows Scipting.
Tried MS website, but no luck.
Is WScript a download?  Installable? or built into XP (but maybe not Tablet

Ok here is my problem.  I am writting an app which will act as a
"bootstrap" app to the real application.  The purpose of this
bootstrap app is to check a network share to see if the components or
main exe files located localy are of the latest version.  If the local

Whenever I try to run the program from within the IDE I get a compile error.
The compiler fails in the Mid function
So I tried to add a reference to Visual Basic for Applications and I got a
message that there is an existing reference