VB Forum / General / July 2008

VB6
I need to
  See if a .exe application is "registered" then
     Start it up with command prameters

To all,
I'm trying to figure out how to programatically move the mouse over the
taskbar. It seems that there are some applications that are leaving their
icons behind on the tray. As a result, there are multiple icons in the

I use a DataRepeater Control with a ocxto display records in a List.
For selecting records I added a unbound Checkbox. However, at runtime
I allways can select only one record of the records shown in the List.
If I click on another element of the List, the record selected before

Hi friends;
1- I have two tables. - StuffGroup & Stuff
2- StuffGroupID field at StuffGroup table  is Primary Key & at stuff table is Foreign key.
3- I use VB.Net 2008 & SQL Server Express .

I have a picturebox to which I am writing lines.  I have a vertical
scrollbar to scroll through the visible lines.  For example, I may have 30
lines and the picture box displays any consecutive 30.  The vertical scroll
bar defines which 30 to display.  (Similar to simple word ...

Is there a source to download additional class module templates for Visual
Basic 6.  So that they would appear in the Add class Module when creating a
new class.
In particular I saw on article on an xml wrapper class for VB but cant find

I have a little routine during closing one of my programs that is intended
to delete all temporary files copied to a particular directory during
operation, cleaning up after itself. It works fine, unless someone has one
of the files open, which creates an error. That's fine, and ...

Does anyone know if the debug window can be enlarged to hold
more text?

According to the ancient tomes of VB 6 help, once a form has been shown as
one type (modal or nonmodal) it's type cannot be changed.  I can certainly
understand why, but it would also certainly be nice if it could.
My situation is the ability to add table entries on-the-fly.  For ...

When the item is selected I need to enable both: cmdDelete btn and
mnuDelete (mouse right click pop-up menu)
and if there is not item selected both must be disabled.
The problem with the code I use (see below) is that when user change the

I need to read a word document to a binary file.
I want to search the word document very fast with a regular
expression.
To do so I thought of reading it into a binary file. Somewhere I read

(As one has maybe noticed by my last posts) I am drawing a lot of GDI+
objects, and they take an awful lot of time to render.
For example I need to render about 60 buttons, and it takes about 300 ms
which makes the app appear totally sluggish.

So i've had a Vb6 app that has worked great for the lasy 9 years or so. Up
until Excel 2003
I have had to make minimial changes for it to work properly. The app has an
embedded

To anyone that can help:
I would like to images into a right click menu I have for an Access
application. So far, I load the menu, and my thought is using the
image list control, I grab the picture handle, compress it and load

1. The purpose is to provide the user name and password to a logon form that is
detached from the app window.
2. Could some pls send an example prog. to start the app and fill in the data.
3. I have read thru quite a few examples in the discussion groups but I could