VB Forum / General / January 2007

We have a comms program written in vb6 that uses writefile to send a string
to a comms port. When we run the program through vb6 development package the
application works fine. Communications to a device connected to say comm port
1 there program writes and reads date ok.

I have a problem. We do some functions in vba for a customer and now he
want to use them on his clipper application. We thougt put them in a VB
dll and import this dll on clipper. Anyone knows if it's possible to
use a vb dll on clipper and how ?

Here's an odd-ball question...
Is it possible to get two VB 5/6 programs to "talk" to one another given
that:
(a) each resides on a separate machine and that

My preferences dialog is looking old and has too many tabs.  I’m ready to re-write it with a
tree-view on the left like I see in so many other programs. Before I re-invent the wheel has anyone
posted an example to provide a starting place?
Also has anyone compiled a list of links ...

Creating install programs with file extension association
I have been deploying my VB application using the built in deployment
wizard.  It does not update the registry with the extension I use with
my application.  I'm looking for a good information source for install

I'd like to display the properties of a file. A dialog just like in
Windows Explorer would be ideal, I hate to write any more code than
necessary! <g>
Any suggestions?

Can someone tell me how to implement an OnComplete function for the
InternetExplorer object please? example code would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
Andrew.

In order to improve the quality of VB6 software, one has to measure the
complexity, testability with quick and reliable tools.
We propose her both tools and methods for this.
The final aim is to provide tools to detect potential errors causes,

I am confused about using GlobalUnlock() API.
Should I use it each time I call GlobalLock() or only at these instances
when memory object was allocated with the GMEM_MOVEABLE flag?
In my case I use:

In a VB6 application,  any file path with spaces that is passed from
WindowsXP file explorer will not open in the application.  I get a "File
does not exist".  Yet I can open that same file using a common dialog
box in the application.  I can also type the path as an argument ...

Man,
Am I asking a lot of questions! <g>
OK, I got the Explorer Properties dialog to display just like I
wanted. Works great, so thanks for that help.

Hello again,
I'm a little frustrated at this point.
(The background info is this.....several months ago, my PC suffered from a
major power supply event, which took out both of my (physical) HD's, and an

I have a problem to update records when I have opened multiple forms of
the same entity.
For example I can open my Biographies form twice with different
persons.

Hi all, I have a security problem with password-textboxes in VB6. When
you set PasswordChar property of a textbox to some character, its text
must not be seen, but it can be easily seen! Look:
In a form, insert a Timer (Name=Timer1) and a TextBox (Name=Text1;

How do I know which flag to use with GlobalAlloc() API?
There are 2 major choices:
GMEM_FIXED and GMEM_MOVEABLE
When dealing with the audio buffers and using for example: