VB Forum / General / February 2008

I want to display a very long list (maybe 200+ items) in a listbox, and
allow a user to select an item and drag and drop it onto a form. I need
to use a listbox because I need to display an icon with the text.
I need to limit the number of items on display at any time, because 200 ...

I'm trying to build a custom Save Dialog, using VB.Net 2005. The reason I
cannot use the regular save dialog, is the "path" that it needs to save to
isn't actually in the file system, but rather is a system accessible by calls
to an already-existing assembly and web server.

I am having a problem when I try to set the Application name for a DSN I am
trying to register.
Here is the attribs section of my code:
attribs = "Description=Server connection for applications" & Chr$(13)

I've been curious about this for some time now. So I thought I'd ask you
folks here because of a reply I got back from a programmer I just hired.
My request was to have a control (OCX) created to take an array and a long
value, churn the info, and spit out 3 arrays of data. I ...

I was wondering what is the easiest and quickest way of retrieveing
the IP address of the machine the VB6 application is running on?
Would appreciate any help on this.
Thanks.

I want buttons on an app to only respond to mouse clicks.   We have
users screwing up when they try to use the keyboard for something
else.
What's the best way to disable return and space from "clicking" the

i neet to setTimer calling back a sub in a modulo with arguments
passed.
I mean:
setTimer(x,x,1000,addressOf nameFunction(par1))

My VB6 application uses the ALLUSERSPROFILE environment variable to
find the location to store common user data. Fine on about 99% of the
computers, but I've been finding that some users don't seem to have
this environment variable on their machine!

VB6SP6
Two screen system.
When VB App is moved to right screen (secondary), the tooltips for lables
appear on the right side of the main (left) screen.

I once saw a better method than the "TypeName" property which I use this
way right now:
    Dim p As control
    For Each p In Me.controls

Hi all, i have a question for a my program of process information,
probably is a bit complex, hope someone know it and can help me, Some
program often uses various modules or dll to do some function, i need
a method to retrieve the module name used by a program writing the

I am reading conficting reports about these two - overall, the safer bet
 (in terms of distributing OCX's etc) seems to lie with the Tabstrip -
anyone care to provide more input/comments ?

I'm a bit rusty on my VB6/VBA skills and terminology but I need to modify a
display box that contains on the left a number of Excel workbook volumes, and
on the right side the list of worksheet contents with checkboxes to select
the desired ones. I am trying to simplify the ...

I've got a FlexGrid where I want to put dates across the top row.
I'm only interested in part of the date, however.
For example, I may only want to put the month and day and leave off the
year.

Greetings all,
I have a form with a text box and listbox
I want to enter a value in textbox
when enter key is hit, validate entry and put in listbox(if valid)