VB Forum / General / January 2008

Sorry to bother you with a new problem:
I have made a kind of  "Thumbnail picture browser" in VB6 that shows
shrinked pictures(thumbnails, like icons) of picture files.
Using a vertical scrollbar the user can scroll forwards and backwards.

I am trying to use Steve McMahon Simple CD Burn in a program and when I run
the pr5ogram from within VB it fails, but will run OK from the *.exe file.
Can someone please explain what may be wrong?
The code that fails is:-

I have face one problem in a monthly report. My report shows values
for all days. My development is based on MS VB 6.0. I want to show the
figures for Sundays on red. This is happening correctly in indian
clients. But in Ireland it is not happening. It shows wrongly Mondays

my company want that view of data report also send to the customer in
pdf format as attached the e-mail.
i have no idea to dothe same.
any one help me.

I'm trying to solve a problem in the most efficient way. I can solve this
problem, but my solution is turtle slow.
Say you have a file with 10 years of numerical values. One value per
calendar date, excluding weekends and holidays.

I have noticed that Microsoft brought an update to MSCOMCTL and COMCTL32.
On their website downloaders are directed to language specific downloads.
I would like to know if the "language specific" applies to the installer
only or if there are really language specific versions of the ...

Is there a way(event) that can fire in case a user has moved my form with
the mouse on a new location?
I made some tests and could see that the Resize Event does not fire if the
form is moved.

Dear Friends
I am creating a drawing application in vb6. Drawing circles, squares,
polygons, straight lines are easy. Even drawing irregular shapes (free
hand drawing) works fine. Where I am stuck is, how to apply

I am trying to create a vertical and horizontal rule (for labeling the
cells around my grid - kinda like Excel - i.e. I want to be able to
scroll up/down, with the rulers indicating my row and column numbers
respectively.

Does someone has done upload with WinHttpRequest?
I try this...
Private Function UploadFileFromHTTP( _
   TarUrl As String,  _

I have a lot of problems with connection to database under excell.
I put both dhSQLite.dll and sqlite.dll lib and nothing works.
Could you give some Excel file with samles or tell me where I can find
it?

I think this is a very easy question but I couldn't find a solution yet:
In my existing VB6 app there is a button on the main form that opens another
form(newForm) modeless with the method
newForm.Show vbModeless

Does anyone know how I can change the border color of a picturebox?. I
am creating a grid out of individual picture boxes, and I want to be
able to change the border color - is this possible?

Hi, I need to display Chinese characters in a VB6 app. Is this possible
using VB6? If so, would somebody point me in the right direction please?
The machine I am developing on has Chinese characters installed and I
have an Access DB with data containing Chinese characters to ...

I put a Listview control with checkbox enabled under my form. It looks
fine when i deployed my application and ran it under my PC. But
anyway, when i ran it under one of my users' PC, the checkboxes in the
listview become extremely small which i can't even see if it's being