VB Forum / General / February 2008

How do you make (e.g.) a non-modal floating toolbox stay on top of the (VB6)
main form, but go underneath other windows applications that get the focus,
and go under modal forms from the VB app (like msgboxes etc)?
SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE Or ...

I have a VB6 MDI form whose child forms are larger so it creates a vertical
scrollbar.  It appears that if I try to position a component at .top = 0
when the form is scrolled down from the top, it places the component at the
top of the visible part of the window and not the ...

If Not IsNull(rs!SomeFieldValue) and Trim$(rs!SomeFieldValue) <> '' ... ...
then
 do something
End If

I would like to store a value, Ohm's Law in MySQL database and then to be
retrieved using VB. The SQL syntax I used to store the value is as below:-
update stxt set SearchTxt = 'Ohm's Law' where id = '1361';
But some how, there was an error pop-up stated that the SQL could only

programing Excel-sheets, my VB 6.5 editor suddenly begins to behave
strangely, i.e. when I change the spelling of a variable after DIM the same
variables within the sub-routine won't change accordingly as they used to do.
For example:

I installed VB6-SP6 in a new machine and then installed another
software package. Whenever I open any of my VB projects, it attempts
to install som missing components from the other applications, as it f
they weren't finished during its install. I wonder if there's a

Is there an easy way for a vbscript to determine if a machines is a
workstation (Windows XP, Windows 2000 Pro, etc...) or a Server
(Windows 2000, 2003, etc..).  I know I can use
objOperatingSystem.Caption to find out exactly what the OS is.  But is

I have an array of times (00:00:10, 00:00:12, 00:00:19, 00:00:30, 00:00:40,
00:00:55, 00:01:00, etc) I need to compare time and tell if time(2)-time(1)>
six seconds, so in the above example, time(3), time(4), time(5) and time(6)
would be flagged. The problem that I am having ...

Anyone know which versions of Windows have VB6 run time support, and
which do not... (like Vista does not, but which other versions do not
as well?)
Also IIRC, the run time installer says it want's to reboot (doesn't

I have a huge VB6 app that I've been working on since 2 years.
Now and then I have a "out of virtual memory" message from Windows
popping up.
I am wondering what I could have done to cause this. Is there any chance

I am experiencing problems with registering the Microsoft Comm Control
on Vista.
And I have not been able to find a good wrapper class.
Can anybody help me? I would highly appreciate it.

I want to create "n" number of forms and process their Form_MouseUp events
but the MouseUp event doesn't fire.  I've created the forms like this:
myFormTmp is just a regular VB 6.0 form with the event:
private sub Form_MouseUp(Button as integer, Shift as Integer, X as single, Y

I developed a windows application suit that includes different
applications and these applications are updated time to time. Another
module of that application checks for the updates of these
applications and offers the user to download upgrades from the Network

Could you please tell me what you like best?
I have an application that is somewhat like Excel. The difference is
that users mainly navigate through the sheets instead of editing them
(which is also possible). It's for people who cannot speak.

I have an app I developed using VBA under Excel (cos that and APL are the
only two languages I have available on my machine currently) and want to
migrate it to a stand-alone app (.exe file).
I have no idea how to go about this!