VB Forum / General / June 2008

I have been trying to build a resource dll containing word and excel
documents and have been able to build one using vbadvanced. My problem has
been in trying to extract the document for use in a program.
The example shows using LoadLibrary and LoadString and I am able to get an

I have an VB6 application I would like to update the look of. Maybe new
buttons, icons, rounded corners, gradient shading etc, etc. App needs to
run on all MS windows platforms.
In the past I have looked at a few of the skinning apps & most feel short

I'm using the following code to download a jpg from the internet.  Is
there a size limitation for the array?
    Dim myByteArray() As Byte
    Inet.protocol = icHTTP             ' set protocol to HTTP

What is the "proper" way to shutdown an ActiveX EXE process?
I have a program in which I'm using an activex exe process as a second
thread.
In one of the form's Declarations is this:

I currently have an Image Control inside a Picture Box on a form. Under the
Double-Click event of the image control, I enabled the user to either add a
picture or if one already exists to remove the current picture. I would like
to add right-click functionality to allow the user ...

Why won't this work?
rs.Open "Select * From Accused Where aLast Like " & sLast & ";", cn
I'm using VB6, Access 2000, ADO 2.1
The single char underscore works in this code as do names passed without

VB6SP6
In one project I have a .mdl and a .cls
in the .mdl is
Public Type tParamsType

I need to create a timer manually.
Here is pseudo code :
==============
Public Sub TimerProcMain(hwnd As Long, _

I have a form, with a timer checking for an update every 20 secs. If I were
to run the application as a service, would I need to hide the form? Or it
would be hidden automatically as a service.
How do I hide the form if I need to?

Is it possible to set in code where a MsgBox will appear
on a Form?
My preference would be for it always to appear at the bottom
right of the Form

I am using part of a Karl Peterson's program, see code below.
What I would like to do is have the MsgBox move to the corner of the active
child form
I have tried many alterations to Karl's code without success can anyone help

VB6SP6
What is the recommended source code taht I can add to my project to provide
file compression and uncompression.
Something that is fast and does a relatively good job compressing.

I am attempting to write a VB6 program, part of which includes a simple
calculation in respect of the answers the user selects to various questions
in a form I am showing him and then analysing that value in various
different ways against a predefined set of data that I already ...

Anyone know where I can find the WinSubHook3.tlb for use with cSubclass.tlb
by paul Caton?
Thanks
zipDC

Ok - I have a situation that I could really use some brainstorming on.
I have two applications. In order to make this Vista-Compatible, one
applicationruns as a service under the administrator account, while
the other is run on the account of the logged in user.