VB Forum / General / February 2007

I have tried using both the Windows Media Player control as well as
the mciSendString method for playing an MP3 within my Visual Basic
2003 app. The problem is that when the MP3 is looping there is always
a small bit of silence between when the sound ends and begins again. I

    Registration of ocxs and dlls do not work in Vista. How does one do it?
Thanks.
Athena

Hi men, i'm searching for a way to convert a full screen game in
Windowed from my program, is there a way to di it?
thx all.

I need some help. I need a control to view folder lists like the common
dialog but I only need to select a folder not opening up a file.  
Where do I get this control from?  

I'm having trouble getting a conditional force (namely friction) using
VB6.  I have had no problem using constant or periodic forces.  The
trouble seems to be that when defining the later you can use...
Dim FrictionEffect As DIEFFECT

I working on a data processing app that uses XML files as source data.  I
parse the XML files into my app using the Microsoft XML DOM parser.
The customer for this tool has a requirement to be able to read the contents
of the XML in basic word processor or web page like format.  I ...

Dim MyValue As Double
MyValue = 5.01 - 5
the value MyValue should be "0.01" but what I'm getting "9.999999999E-03"
WHY!!!!?

I have a program that was made in vb6.
The program does not run on Vista, what can I do to run my program on
windows vista.
I would appreciate it if you could help me.

Just wondering how one could add a Windows shutdown script using VB6.
Is it as simple as putting the script, or a shortcut, at
C:\WINDOWS\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown ?

I've got a situation where a certain process works flawlessly in the IDE but
fails in the compiled EXE.
Using a third-party combobox (TDBCombo) using the GotFocus and Validate
events, I trap the original value of the combo upon GotFocus, then check the

I hope that someone here on this forum can recommend something, because I am
clueless at the moment and have been for a couple of weeks. I have a problem
that seemed to come up out of the blue. If I build the application and
create an EXE out of it and then run the application, ...

The following code does:
- checks if Excel app is opened, if not then starts Excel with the specified
sheet
- waits until Excel window appears

A VB6 form has a border and does not have any kind of menu bar or any
controls on it. How can I get this simple bit of code below to bring up the
MsgBox instead of the system menu?
Thanks

I'm trying to show report in visual basic 6 using data report
it gives me the error:
the width of the report is greater than the paper's width. That's
because the preinter's

i need to be able to set the spacing of lines in an rtf box, i have been able
to set all the other formatting features but this one is eluding me.
please if any one knows the answer will they let me know
with thanks