VB Forum / General / January 2008

  I have an old medical information management app. Now I want to integrate
tablet function into it so that the doctor does not need to type. any
suggestions?
thanks

I have an old app that generated a text report/file.
I was writing out lines with PRINT statements
This report started out back in the old BASIC with linenumbers and moved to
QuickBasic then VisualBasic.  I never got around to figuring out how to use

I am trying to create a new type of variable to handle dates coming from
different systems, and therefore not being in a 'standard' format.
So far, I have created a simple structure (cut-down example)
Structure MyDate

Is it possible to do something like this in VB6:
Private Sub Form_Load()
 For i=1 to 100
     if i=50 then RaiseEvent("DisplayMessage")

I want to use win 32 functions in VB6. However, these are not the 'basic' Win 32 functions such as those in User32 and Kernel32. These are those defined in avicap32 and other dll libraries. I know the name of the functions, from the SDK; however, I don't know in which DLL file ...

Gang,
I am using Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition.  I need to get specifics of a  
file such as name without the extension or just the extension itself.  
I found Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension Method (.Net framework) in help,

I got error 'Variable required - can't assign to this expression'
while passing custom type variable to procedure. But why?
Private Type backupFile
   Name As String

I have a very large Access application that I have considered moving the VB 6
for some time now. The application desperately needs a real table view and
multiple windows, and extra performance and compiled application size would
definitely be a bonus as well.

We have been using EXCEL8.OLB and then EXCEL9.OLB for a long time in
conjunction with Office 2007 and Office 2000 for having VB 6.0 programs
create Excel worksheets on the fly and populate them with data dragged out
of Microsoft SQL. This all works very well is is quite fast.

Hi, how can I convert some number, example: 1 to fill a varchar(10) field on
table?
should be 0000000001
20 = 0000000020

i have been changing (Hopefully Improving)  several OCX's that I have
developed in the past few days.
I usually deregister the OCX before recompiling it, to avoid getting
multiple occurences of the same OCX showing in the "Component List". I

If I should submit seperate questions, just let me know.
1.  When using Nero to burn CD & DVD's  there is an option to raise or lower
the program's priority.  How is this done in Windows 2K and XP?  Will Vista
be the same?

How to change a , (comma - decimal separator) coming from a float column on
a recordset to . (dot) on VB 6?
iniConexao.MyTable2!PRECUNITLIQ
PRECUNITLIQ is a column coming from Sql Server!

I have submitted an application to a client. It ran without a hitch on my
system, but alternately makes Excel and the VBE crash on the user's system.
The problem is associated with the Web Browser control, which I am using. I
created a crippled version of the app where the Web ...

Has anyone written a program to parse .vbp files, gather names of
.bas, .frm and .cls files, open them and list the names of their procs
and functions, then display all the data alongside file create and
last access dates?