VB Forum / General / July 2008

I have installed MySQL Server 5.1 on my machine.
I need to write a VB App that will allow me to connect to a database
that is on my machine (localhost) "D:\MySQL Datafies\data\ibdata1"
I have been wrestling with various connect statements I found on

What is the meaning of that error?
Jack

When an item gets the focus in a ListView control, both the text and the
icon get selected. Is there any way I can have only the text shaded and not
the icon? Similar to what you see for the little icons under View->Project
Browser. Thanks!

With two networked machines directly in front of me I often find myself
wanting to copy/paste between them (with respective keyboard/mouse). Even
just to get text would be nice.
Is something like that doable with the help of a little VB6 utility. It'd be

I want to call the MouseDown event in a usercontrol when the DblClick
event occurs.
I don't want to use subclassing this time, I would need a quick solution.
However, I cannot call MouseDown directly, because I don't know the

VB6
On my dev PC I wrote and compiled an VB6 ActiveX .exe
My test VB6 app that uses it finds it in the References (Browser) and
connects.

Dear sir,
I want to save the what each attendee has written in chat window during the
meeting. LM does not allow to save this data. So, I need to access the chat
object and get the writings of each user. How can I write a windows

A current practice exercise I'm doing (in Summers, G Programming with
Visual Basic 2nd Edn) specifies controls entitled
"tabbed dialog" "MS FlexGrid" & "UpDown Control"
These don't appear on the default toolbox. Is there some other place

I use  InternetOpenUrl  to fetch the contents of a webpage.  It works
in XP but in Vista it returns a "not logged in" page from the target
website.  When you go to the page in Internet Explorer it displays
properly.  

I am trying to develop a simple thread server using
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/Vb/Code/Libraries/Threading/Multi-threading_us
ing_classes_in_ActiveX_EXEs/article.asp
(I've pasted the code at the bottom of this just-in-case)
I have a simple form with 3 buttons and 3 text boxes. ...

I my quest of trying to copy large files over slow networks, I thought I'd
try downloading just a small bit of the file, and extrapolate from that how
long it will take. My code is simply:
Function GetDownloadTime(ByVal percent As Double) As Double

I have just saved some photos on a disc and would like to open the file to
rename all the photos... I go to the photo...Click rename, type in name and
then  it asks me to confirm file rename ( Are you sure you want to rename the
read only file? ). I click YES and then it says ...

VB6
How do I get the mouse click x, y when a top menu or submenu is clicked?
There seems to only be a mouse_click event.

VB6
I have a picturebox  pic(0) on a form
I want to pass this control to a sub so that I can create an array of pic()
using Load.

I have a legacy app that was generated with the old vb6 data app wizard.
It uses an Access 97 db to display a master-detail view of two tables, and
allows editing of the detail record. using ado and data binding to
textboxes.  It was modified by someone, years ago, to do the ...