VB Forum / General / March 2008

Any way to loop all comps on the form and clean it ?
If the comp is a TextBox, the property .text = ""
If is a Combo, ListIndex should be -1...
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Create a VB6 test app. Place a ComboBox (Combo1) on Form1, set its
Style to Dropdown List, then paste in the code below.
Click on the list and select Carrots. Now press down arrow.
When I press the down arrow on the combo, the text shown is not

I am using VB6.0 SP5 on XP-Pro SP2
Question
Is there anyway once a document is scanned into my programs folder, that it
can be call from my application.

My general question is; What is the maximum number of rows that can be
copied/pasted/exported to a new sheet when using a macro?
I have a report that has 23,567 rows of data and I would like to be able
to create a macro that will export 10,564 rows to a new sheet, but I get

(from VB6)
I want to get a handle to StdOut, but I don't want the handle of a new
created console,  but of the console process that started my app.
hStdIn = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE)

My current code paints a rectangular area at the top (under the menu and
tool strip) and bottom (top of the status strip) of the main form with a
linear gradient.  The problem is that when the form is resized or maximized
for that matter, the form still displays the last areas ...

I am trying to read the attributes of an office document in VB.
I see you can use the dsofile.dll to read them.  However it is not installed
on a machine, by default.
There must be a way windows does this by default.

I'm sick of users pushing print screen to send me an error report. Where my
error window comes up I would like to replace this with a bitmap saying,
"please don't send print-screens of the errors, please copy/paste the error
text into an email etc....". Is this possible? App is ...

I have written a chat client and server in VB6 using RC4 encryption and SQL
Server Express.
I thought everything was running fine until I ran a test incrementing a
number and sending it to server each time I press enter on the client.

with the philosophy of decoupling ui from business logic in mind,
What is the preferred way for the "remote" proc to communicate back to the
form?
Example

I have build a database in Excel using user forms and want mulptiple
users to be able to use the database at the same time.
What is the best approach for this?
Currently, we have to rota time for people to spend on the database

I am a relative novice to using VB so bare with me.
I have created a database using VB in Excel to enter call sampling and
work sampling stats by way of a userform. The user form is set to hide
everything in the background, but it also hides the task bar icon at

Sorry to start another thread, but the problem is really urgent.
None of the suggestions worked.
Despite of what I said, the undeclared variable do not even get
discovered if I compile the project.

how can I access RS232 from my VB6 application?
Christian

There are 2 kinds of registry strings:
regular REG_SZ and expandable REG_EXPAND_SZ
What is a difference?
Jack