VB Forum / General / June 2008

How can we detect the external ip number from provider using  vb6 ? The
pc that run the program can be as a stand alone pc with a dialup modem
or as a member of lan with a router ?
Thanks in advance

I quote from an applications documentation.
"The  source DLL can be written using any language which supports the
creation of standard Windows DLL files.
If you use Visual Basic, you must use a third-party tool to create the DLL

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from user's computer:
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I have a small problem with my visual basic program.
I have 2 textboxes (txtdata1 and txtdata2) and 2 buttons (cmdLoad and cmdSave)
on my form
I am having difficulty saving and loading the data in these two textboxes as

I have run across some VBPJ CDs.
1) what was the last one produced?
2) which ones should I keep?  i.e. I think they accumulated until some date
then they started dropping off older stuff.

Hi - I'm using VB2008 through Visual Studio 2008.
I have a large pipe delimited text file, with around 20 fields, and
approx 50-60,000 entries - which is dumpd each night from a 3rd party
system.

   I have sample vb6 exe(only one form with button) and vc6 dialog based
application. When I click on button in VB form, it launches VC Dialog based
exe.
Here my requirement is: When VB form minimizes VC dialog should minimize and

I want to change the Icon of my ActiveX Exe which has no visual interface
not even the form. How can i do it??
Please help me out in this
-Lou

I would like to display everything a font has to offer (including glyphs). I
am missing something as there seem to be more than 255 characters in a font.
Type ALT+0256 in word and a different character appears that is not in
0-255. Not in every typeface but most. I would like to ...

Hi All, My program uses the following code to save and load the data in 2
textboxes. Can someone please help me modify this so that multiple lines can
be loaded in each of the textboxes instead of one single line. Thanks and God
Bless

In Windows we can get an ip address of an internet server by pinging its
domain name.
For example : ping www.yahoo.com.
How can we do this in VB6 ?

I'm trying to calculate the elevation to an IMARSAT satellite in VB.
I learned that the formula to do this would be something like:
EL = ArcTan((Cos(F) - 0.1512) / Sin(F))
F = ArcCos(Cos(sat long) * cos (my lat))

Do all barcode scanners have the same
codes at the start and the end of the data
sent to the vb program ?. I mean :
- Does Form_KeyPress event below work

I have a routine that uses the wininet.dll APIs to manipulate an FTP server. These are
in production and work fine - until now :-S
Now I need to "put" a local file on an FTP server is is hosted in an AS400, but these
routines no longer work. I hacked a simple app that uses the Inet ...

I'm doing an app to treat txt files.
At the moment i have a problem, so i need some help...
My txt file have special caracters like 'á' or 'ã', but doing a debug (or
simply show a message box with the line) the ligne the VB transform the