VB Forum / General / March 2008

Hi group. I am using Visual Basic 6 and complied an exe program. I am
using INNO which is a free installer program. After the program
installs, it works fine. The problem is the user can go to windows
explorer and find my program and open up the folder and see all the

Hi grp,
Is it safe to assume the default for the following is always False?
Function IsShoe(nr As Integer) As Boolean
/Henning

I would like to carry out the ff operations (programatically), for a
textbox:
Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo and Redo
Additionally, it would be useful if I could somehow check if the

Many years ago I was shown how to create a VB Prog with multiple tabs, i.e.
single front end with the tabs all arranged.
It's so many years ago I have forgotten how to activate and apply this
set-up. I wish to create a prog with multiple tabs to access different data

Is it possible to resume execution after an error occured - after the
error was checked first, to make sure it was not critical?
For example something like this:
Sub DoSomething()

I have written the ff function, but get a type mismatch error when
running (I was under the impression that VB automagically did type
conversions (casts) behind the scenes - so I am not sure what is causing
the error - any ideas what is wrong with the code below?

Just (still) kinda interested, that's all. Classic VB still seems to
be in use, though not as widespread. Maybe folks are turning to Java!
MM

I have a program that is comprised of four "components" (2 DLLs and
EXE's). Occasionally, changes are made that break the compatibility
between the components. At that point, it seems to take an act of god,
and the efforts of one part-time guy to square things away. The

Someone has written or knows a "click once" for vb6's applications.
I had used Installer for years... Today looks obsolete...
Regards,
<Harvey Triana /> ... http://vexpert.mvps.org

How can I determine the cursor location within text in a cell?
For example, if I have a cell containing abcde and the cursor is between the
b and c, how can I programmatically determine that the cursor is between
character two and three?

I'm trying to print labels and need to use the courier font(not
'courier new') so my horizontal and vertical spacing matches up with
the labels.  When you 'hover' over the printFont variable, it shows
'Microsoft Sans Serif" as the FontFamily even though I've set to

Use this code posted by Olaf Schmidt to sort a 1-D 0-based string array and
it is very fast.
I was trying to adapt this to sort 1-D 1-based string arrays, but sofar no
success yet.

Apart from adding a .Current key (pointing to a .wav) to
HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\<Your App Name> how could I change the
MsgBox sound that is automatically associated with, say, Question? (I
don't want to change it for the whole system in Control Panel.)

Hi. How do I covert a hex value/command (0x41 for example) from VB6 MSComm1
and then show it in the text box by dec format?
Thank you.

If I want to turn off the scrollbars that are built into the control and use
my own scrollbars (located on a toolbar),
How can I scroll through the grid when it is longer/wider then the frame on
the screen?