VB Forum / General / July 2008

Hi all! This is very bizzard and hopefully somebody can tell me what's going
on. I have a ListView control in a form which I'm sending window messages
to. Everything works perfectly if I set the project's component to:
Microsoft Windows Common Controls 5.0 (SP2) - comctl32.ocx

i am using VB6 with Access 2003 using DAO object Library.does anybody know
how to add field to recordset(Not Table) at runtime?I know there is somethin
like..myRecordset.Fields.Append.Objectname.....I tried creating field object
and assigned to this method and it says "Runtime ...

VB6
I want to peek at COMM port traffic.
How do i do that without disrupting current traffic?

When I have a picturebox with really complex GDI+ graphics drawn on it,
and I need to highlight one of them on mouse over, I ran into serious
problems. My graphic objects are not grouped in rows or columns, so I
can't use a normal "Okay, mouse has left cell 1, so redraw its hot ...

The code is:
       Const VK_CONTROL = &H11
       Const VK_C = &H43
       Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2

Hi all! Is there any way I can resize a ListView control so it can display
all its items (no scroll bars)? That is either to determine or the set
perfect fit (height) for which the vertical scrollbar disappears.
What I'm doing: I'm placing the Listview within a UserControl. The

This seems like it should have a simple and elegant solution.
I won't admit how long I've been struggling with it :-)
I have code that works "to some extent some of the time" <g> but is horribly
long and ugly and convoluted and therefore hard to modify

VB6SP6
What is the best way to persist a Type.
Type may contain Control, Object, Variant, String, Long etc.
Want to persist like WritePrivateProfileString  or SaveSetting (save and

Would anybody here take a look at my code? I am experiencing an "out of
memory" error, and I just can't find the error.
It's a routine to build two memory DCs. I call this routine at every
usercontrol resize event. If I resize the form often, the error occurs,

I've never run across this problem before, but I have a program originally
developed in WinXP, and now I'm using Vista. My work PC was Win2K, and I
just got a new one with WinXP. Well, I use a Manifest file, that never
caused a problem on my home XP machine, or my old work 2K ...

Hi, can somebody tell me what this "&" (C++) means in VB6? I have the
following code
void OnWindowPosChanged(HWND hwnd, const WINDOWPOS *pwp)
{

I have an application that lists the available COMM ports for the user to
select from.
Some of these ports are the usual motherboard ports, and others are USB to
RS232, CAN-Bus or RS485 dongles.

I am using Vista and need to make set values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
category of the registry. This is not working in Vista but works in
XP. I am using VB.NET
I know you need to elevate the credentials of the application in Vista

For a while now I have had an app that opened an unformatted text file,
stored it in a string and parsed out what I needed using the INSTR function
to locate the needed stop and start points.
Recently, the app failed due to the size of the text being greater than the

I like the idea of using Vista and XP Visual Styles from VB6. I've
read the articles on VB Accelerator and elsewhere, e.g.
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/vb/code/Libraries/XP_Visual_Styles/Using_XP_Vi
sual_Styles_in_VB/article.asp
But when I try it out, the focus rectangle ...