VB Forum / General / January 2008

Hi all, I don't usually participate in long-winded back and forth threads
in the newsgroups, but I got involved in a thread in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general in which this certain poster,
AlexB, is convinced that he is a programming guru, and knows everything,

Is there any way to use MsgBox and keep the progam udating data?
When I use the MsgBox to prompt the user for action the data updating freezes.

Ok, say you downloaded a 'registry scanner and cleaner program'
Now, you install the program.
When the program starts up, it automatically scans the registry.
It does not change the registry in any way, but intends to give you a

I'm struggeling with the SendInput function. I have used ScanCodes all
the time, but there are situations in which I need to send VirtualKey
codes if the given key is available in the keyboard layout.
But I have not been able to determine if a key is available in the

I am currently working on a project using Visual Studio 2005 and I recently
upgraded my machine to Vista. One thing I am doing in this project is
building the dll to a common bin folder and then GACing the dll using the
gacutil command in the post build event. In Windows XP this ...

Hello, I am using Visual Basic 6 for some work. I have a VB code
calling some FORTRAN executable in DOS mode and what happens is that
the DOS box appears
I am already using code (see on of the microsoft KB articles) that it

Does anybody know which messages I have to subclass to prevent a window
from being minimized when you click on the "Show Desktop" icon in the
quicklaunchbar?
I eat the "WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING" message, but that didn't help.

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 an looking for guidelines for getting the most accurate result from
a double precision calculation. For example, I have seen 1# used for
1. I suspect that the order of operations is a factor.
Here is an example.

I haven't been a programmer for about 15 years (UNIX C).  I am a PM/
ScrumMaster now.  In my search for Scrum PM tools, I would like to
evaluate the Scrum Solution Starter COM add-in for Project 2003.
Problem is, it needs to be compiled with VB6.  It seems a bit

I'd like to know how I can make my application stay on top of all
other applications.
I want it to act like the program you start when you press
Ctrl + Alt + Del

How big are the command button borders in graphical style?
How to calculate or find them out?
Are they same for each side of the button?
I have noticed, that when rendering the graphics on button using the

I have an application in VB6-SP6 that uses an Access database for the
back-end. Initially, it was only going to be used my one person (me), so I
did not create the ability to have multiple users log into it. In order to
accomodate additional users using the application, I put the ...

Sorry, this turned in to a long winded question :-)
I don't so much need help with this, just experienced opinions as to will it
will be worth rewriting a whole lot of code, current situation is:
I have a large picturebox on a form that mimics a ListView, it has 8

A couple of years ago an aquaintance who'd gone to NET gave me his
copy of VB6.  I've use VB5 for years and continued using it until last
week when I finally installed his copy of VB6.  When I try to access
Help I get this message: