VB Forum / General / February 2008

I am looking for a simple example that shows how I can drag 1 item from
a listview control, onto a form, and have the form respons to that
event, (e.g. display a message box that shows the text that was
"dropped" onto the form).

Back in the old days of DOS, we had a function called INKEY$, which allowed
the following:
10 i$=INKEY$ 'Detects any key pressed
20 IF i$<>"" THEN GOTO 50

I have an application developed in VB6, ADO, MS Jet, etc.., maybe 200 active
installations running for several years on whatever Win Ver they might have.
I am experiencing a few problems with Vista. The following code works on all
versions of Win except Vista:

I understand that there are Mousemove and Mousedown events that I can set
up, for example, to use mouse with pressed right or left buttons while
dragging it over an image control.
I need to triger 4 different events based on the direction that the mouse

I am having troubles with the mscomm control. How do I know that the input is
complete?
SK

I need to access the frame pages in a web page. I know that I can do this
using the document .all property but I don't know how to get the frame page
contents. Can anyone help?

I assume this has some kind of credibility to it?
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2008/02/06/vb6-support-till-2018.aspx
- Kev

Just started with vb2005.
In the old vb6, you could click on a button, and it would bring you right to
the code for that button.
In this new one, it takes you to some code, but doesn't seem to give you a

All i want to do is save a very basic webpage to a text file.
i dont need to see the actual page download etc, but just need to click a
button and it will know what do do.
i have looked at the inet control but cannot see a save as?

I am working with VBA right now and have an interesting question. Can I have
a general function that will accept the name of a form as an argument and
then show it? Here is my code:
Public Function LoadForm(FormName As String)

I have a vb script that changes the local admin password of a
machine.  My company has offices in U.S. and Canada so we have two
different usernames for the local admin account, one in English one in
French depending on where you are located.  My script tries to change

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Development in Microsoft Dot Net with information about creating web
applications with ADO.Net and Asp.Net.....
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After struggling with this for a few days, I am getting quite frustrated
now. All I want to do is this:
1). Display a form with a ListView containing a list of items (I can do
this)

I have an application that uses a touchscreen on the front end. The
catch is that the monitor is about 150 feet away. I am using a USB
Extender to extend the USB portion of the touchscreen (essentially the
mouse) which seems to work ok. The only problem is that every once in

I have a process that opens a file using,
Open myLockFile For Binary Access Write Lock Write As #1
I have another process that attempts to open the same file for read
using,