VB Forum / General / May 2008

Does anyone know where the default icon is stored within a compiled VB6
application ?
I gave up on the Project Group issue I posted about last week and just went
with 'power' hex editting of the distributable exe file.

I have a document where in there are many hyperlinks pointing to files
located in a paticular directory. My concern is, if these files are
moved from this directory to some other directory on the same system,
then how do I replace the path mentioned in hyperlink with the new

I'm trying to insert a record into an access database using VB6.  Here is the
statement:
Insert Into Users (UserID, Login, UserName, Password) Values
(1,'Admin','Administrator','Admin')

(tongue-in-cheek)
Let's have this ng changed to
microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion.McCarthy-Williams
and the rest of us go somewhere else

My VB6 app needs to pause iTunes.
What's the easiest way to do this?
Do I have to get a list of tasks somehow, identify iTunes, and then use
sendkeys (space bar)?

How can i run perl (commands) programs from VB??
thanks in advance..

I have an app (VB6 of course) that's been running "in production" for
some time now. It's a custom-written app that runs on only one
computer. Over the past week, the end user has reported that the app
has crashed with an "Error 462 - Server not found" error. He says all

It's a long shot but I guess no harm asking...
We have a VB6 app that does a series of things, at some point it
updates a file generated by an external source. We would like to
change it so that it doesn't touch that file (a separate app will

I have a box called rtfBoxPlane - after a sequence of processes, this
box becomes filled with some text.  I then have a save button which I
want to use to save the contents of the RTF Text box into a text
file.  I am using the common dialog feature of VB6 to open text files

I have an interesting problem. I am trying to write code in VBA (Word
2K) wherein I have to convert a string-representation of really large
numbers (upto 18 digits max) into its equivalent Hex String
representation

Is it possible with VB6 Enterprise to make a Windows API TypeLib by ticking
in
Project Properties, Component the Remote Server Files checkbox?
It is simple with this to make a TypeLib for Enums, but not sure it can work

VB6SP6
Form with 200+ controls.
Went to add an icon to imlIcons ImageList control and was scolded that it
was bound.

I have written a VB6 app as a service.  With the help of NTSVC.ocx, I
am able to install and run my service without any problems.  I wrote a
systray app to communicate with it when I login.  Using the
SendMessage api, this appears to be working also, to a point.

Visual Basic 6.3/Excel 2003/XP
(Function Question 1)
Column A- has many different ticket numbers sometimes duplicated.  Can I
create code to have all duplicated ticket numbers highlighted a random color?

VB6SP6
I need some direction on how to make an image translucent then place it on
to another (destination) image.  The translucent image would be positioned
and sized to fit within the bounds of the destination image.  Lets say I