VB Forum / General / October 2007

VB6
Can someone give me a formula for scrolling a  variable number of images up,
down, left or right.
The images are 32x32.

I have a database maintained in Visual Fox Pro but I would like to import
those dbf table to database such as sql or msde. How can I do that
Regards
Samir Shah

I'm trying to create a dashboard like form in VB6 ... there are lots of
helper dashboard controls for .NET but not much for VB6.  Anyway, does
anybody know of a needle gauge control (looks like a speedometer) that
looks pretty nice and will resize if the user resizes the form (drags ...

Afer many years for using a 2.6g Celeron processor, I have upgraded to
Windows XP pro SP2 on an Intel Core2 Quad box. My programme, VB6 Sp5,  has
worked without error using ODBC to connect to my various databases for
years. Now, I have a problem.

Just found out that when you have a comma separated text file (strFile) and
do:
 Dim hFile As Long
 Dim v

Can I display two colors of text in the same text box in VB 5?
I can only find a color atribute for the whole text box.

We are using Microsoft Active Accessibility 2.0 to inspect our GUI's that are
developed with VisualBasic 6.0.
The radiobutton, checkboxes, pushbuttons and menu-items on the screen are
recognized by the inspect32 tool. It shows the correct "name" and "value" of

I am trying to use the callbyname function but am not sure if what I want to
do is possible.
I want to create the object name from info in text boxes and then use this
string in the callbyname function in place of the object name.  If I can get

I haven't made any changes to the VB6 setup but today I can not start the
API-Viewer Add-In anymore.
If I want to load it via the Add-In Manager(its listed there) I get the
error message:"VB6 API Viewer could not be loaded."

I am experimenting with an aplication written in VB6 having one simple form.
There can be several instances of the .exe (and thus the form) running
at the same time.
The programs will be communicating via postmessage/sendmessage.

I have started to develop apps with access. but I would really like to get
some more knowledge how to develop .exe. stand alone app's I tried vb.net but
I found it really different to jump between one and other. as I see in VB
forums it looks like VB 6.0 was more easy to start with ...

I have a vb6 application that periodically disappears without a Dr. Watson or
crash notification. I have it installed on multiple PCs and I get the same
behavior.

          I have received request to connect my app to SQL server
(broadband connection) to retrieve some data, edit it and send it back.
I need some basic info, links to some documentation and basic steps how to
achieve that.

does anybody how you can read out the favorits of the IE and Firefox with
VB6?
Or rather were the data is stored and how it can be accessed.
Thanks in advance!