VB Forum / General / July 2008

In my application the user can draw graphical elements like shape,
polygon and circle on a form.
If the form is resized, the graphical elements will be resized as well.
What would be the best method to store the positions of the points of

I would like to access just one dimension of a multi-column and rows array.
Something like if A(i,j) is an array with values for i and j how about
A(I,j) being just a one-dimensional array? I could be say the number of
elements i. Thanks.

I posted this question over in the vb.database.dao newsgroup but
haven't gotten an answer yet; hoping someone here might be able to
shed some light on this.
I'm using the following code to append a new field to an existing

In VB6 it is possible to set the Height of a textbox
to a value less then 'required' by the Font in this way:
-    Set it to a smaller Font,
-    Set the Height to a lower value,

Hi all, I have been using the Listview control for quite a while, however I
would like to mimic the same visual grouping effect I see when you go to My
Computer. There the items (drives) are groupped by categories (Hard Disk
Drives, Scanners and Cameras, Removable Storages, etc.) ...

I have an application that reads the registry and has been working forever.
I moved it to Vista Home and it works great.  I moved it to Vista Ultimate
64 bit and I have a problem. The program reads the registry at
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run but it returns ...

I'm parsing through an XML document and I want to catch errors associated
with a single tag.  (The schema cannot validate logical checks so I have to
do it in code.)
The procedure is processing a xml fragment (multiple tags) and one of the

Does anybody know how I can delete a desktop shortcut icon from VB6 code
(in winxp)
Thanks,  Jennifer.

This code is in an Access Database module (VBA).  It builds an index
of all files and directory in a given tree.
Sorry, some elements of the paths have been changed in this post due
to some of my firm's policies.

I am doing a test to understand how binary reading/writing works. I open one
file for binary read access and another file for binary write access. I am
reading one character at a time into an array of type byte and then writing
that character to the other file. It's working fine ...

Hi all, I'm creating an OCX control in VB6 that I would like to use on a
form in MS Access XP.
So far I'm just testing with a very simple control, but during my testing I
found that I could not display a dummy method I created...you know, on the

I wanna draw a segment of a circle (Just a single line, not a shape), I know
the start and finish angle. 0 Degree is at 3 oclock, 90 Degree is at 12
oclock.My start angle is =>0 and never > than 45Degree. The finish angle is
<= 90 and never < than 45 Degree. My problem is I want ...

Hi! How do I lock the items in a ListView control? I tried all the Arrange
property values, but that does not stop the icons from being re-ordered or
re-positioned when dragged over. An API call perhaps? Thanks

Hello, i am looking for a button control that can display the image on the
left and caption right next to it.  I can't use the toolbar control because
it makes the size of all the buttons identical, making for weird looking UI.
It should be able to look kind of like this:

I'm at somewhat of a loss.
I had thought the RTB would be ... rich ... in methods, too.
What I want to do is select the entire line in which
a given input string appears.  Select, highlight, make