VB Forum / General / March 2008

please direct me to the correct news group if this is not the proper place
to ask.
I have the systray icon working.  what i can't get to work is so that when
i click the minimize icon the windows form, to get the icon to go away at

I always hesitate when there is a choice...
Chr(oXLScript + 64)
or
UCase(oXLScript)

What would be the simplest way to interrupt a running procedure in a VB6
ActiveX dll?
I call this dll from Excel and I would like to interrupt the procedure if
the spacebar is hit.

Okay...I can seem to find anything on Google about this.
Been writing a VB add-in...no big deal.
However, it seems that to run the actual add-in, one needs to have all the
dependencies used in creating the add-in...also nothing new or abnormal.

I remember there was a time when Mike (MM) was considered a troll here
because he didn't like the new version of VB.net that was coming out.
Everyone here was arguing like crazy with him. Now it seams everyone here
has turned into MM.

I recently upgraded to vista ultimate.  A program that I wrote under XP
which performs copy and renaming functions on files in a folder worked fine
under XP.  It also has a timer which triggers these functions at specified
intervals.  It does not do any image manipulation.  I did ...

I suppose technicallt this should go in the other thread discussion the
ramifications of Vista SP1 and it not playing nicely with existing
apps...but I can't find it.  Must'a fell off my newsreader.
Anyway, I have noticed something.  At first I thought it was an anomoly, but

I don't want anything fancy, just a minimalist approach for painting a
bitmap over the grey background when a menu is opened (dropped down).
I can use .PaintPicture for a form or a picture box. For a menu surely
all I need is the hdc for the menu area, then BitBlt to it?

kindly find the error in the following code
---------
Private Sub Form_Load()
Height = Screen.Height * 0.9

VB6SP6
I need to be able to extract text from a .CHM file
Is there any how tos out there for a VB6 method?
The ultimate goal is to have a one button .chm extractor that will convert

I run XP and have recently had to reload Money 2005 and tried to restore my
back up file. The back up file was created with the updated 2005 programme
hence the original Money 2005 programme will not restore the back up file and
the usual error messages appear.  I am unable to ...

What do YOU do when your classic VB project is nearing completion? Do
you spend a few days "tidying up"? Removing those redundant comments
that could be confusing rather than helpful if left in? What is your
development style? To address the details first and build your product

I am seeing two really weird things with VB6. All the following
pertains to Design Mode, by the way.
The first involves a PictureBox that is being used as flood fill to
indicate percentage. The .DrawMode property *has* to be 10 (i.e. Not

I am in the process of creating a demo. As part of this demo, I have to
prove a rebuild of the all binaries of my product and show that other than
file versioning, there are no differences.
I have 2 vb projects that change every time they build. Sometimes the

This is one of those things that should be simple...
I have a MDI form that I've added a picture to, small picture and it
displays in the upper left corner of the MDIform.  I'd like it to display in
the "lower" left of the form.  How is that done?