VB Forum / General / June 2008

I know how to prevent the same executable from being started twice on
the same machine.
But, is there an easy way to prevent another VB executable from
running.  I have two versions of the same program and they lock up if

I need my own popup menu to appear on a combobox.
There are no mouseup etc there so how do I do that?
Vb6SP6

VB6SP6
Ran into a barrier and big trouble.
Adding menu items and was scolded that I had too many.
So I deleted and deleted and still got the error mssage.

Sub Darn()
   For qi = 0 To 70 Step 1
       If "a" = "a" Then
           k = MsgBox("qi = " & qi, vbOKCancel, "M")

up to know this is how I determined the Windows serial number of a computer:
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & _
"{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Good afternoon newsgroup! I want to create an API-like function with a
result that will be either FALSE or TRUE depending on whether the
function failed or not, and the real result of the function shall be
returned ByRef. My problem however is my byreffed variable never gets

Several years ago when I was still using Win98 I developed an
application that used Wang/Kodak Imaging for Windows that came as part
of Win98.  Now somebody wants me to change a couple of hard coded
features and when I try to load it into VB6 it wants the Wang/Kodak

I was just asked to find a script, which I searched for and was unable
to find.
My boss wants a script that will disable the pop up from Windows
Security Center, if the computer doesn't have a firewall, antivirus,

I'd like to say errors can be used to our advantage in VB (Sometimes). If it
is any thing like Java's use of the exception, I'd say sure let's see. But I
decided to make a functiion that returns a Recordset which could be used
elsewhere. Yes there are no Objects other than a generic ...

Using VB6 Enterprise.
In the project explorer I used to have the option on right-clicking a module
to remove that module.
For some reason that option has gone and not sure how to get it back.

Dear Group Members,
I have a problem that is really beginning to annoy me. I am getting bogged
down in the maths of radius, chord etc. of an arc.
Ideally I would want an object to move from the start point (X,Y) to an end

I have seen this topic thousand's of times and I still have no
clue how to do this very simple thing.
1) I have a pdf files with form fields on it.
2) From vb6 I want to put data in thoses fields.

Recently purchased a Brother HL-2170-W printer.
Works fine, if I print a single component, but if I tell VB to print the
entire
project, the 1st page of the 2nd component gets all screwed up.

I have been trying to get the ShellAndWait routine written by Larry Rebich
located here
http://www.buygold.net/tips.html
to open a jpg file within a program, but I have not been able to get it to

I have a macro, made with a macro recorder. (.mcr file)
I can double click from Windows Explorer and it runs fine.
I would like to exe from VB6. The shell command returns "Invalid
procedure call or argument".