VB Forum / General / August 2008

VB6 has IsDate to check dates input by users but I cannot find similar for
IsTime.
What is it called?

Hi All, I?m thinking to create Employee Sign In / Out program in our
office that everybody can sign in/out in there PC. When somebody Sign
in/out then all computer screens with in the network should be update
showing in or out under each employee picture. The program should be a

I've created what I consider some pretty novice ways to format my price
data.
But I can't help thinking there is a better way to do this.
For example, suppose I am loading price data that appears to be a decimal

I am using a ListView control in VB 6 but cannot get the vertical scroll bar
to appear when I have many rows. I have tried different views with and
without column headers but it does not work. I can only see the horizontal
scroll bar. I have seen a few articles on the internet but ...

Is it even possible for VBS to copy a file from a mapped drive to a location
in "My Network Places"?

How to make a form in VB6 with?:
 1.. fixed size
 2.. can be minimized
 3.. cannot maximized

My program is like this:
There's 1 drawing panel (a picture box) and there's 1 label which once
i drag to the drawing panel, a window will appear for the user to type
in the texts they want and change font, font size, bold/italic, the

There's some code below, it draws a shape on a form.
Two Questions:
1. Can it be determined if a mouseDown event happened within the region,
cannot use colour comparision because of question 2, and the background

The 65+- seconds for the standard Timer is too short for my app, and I'd
like to extend it. I've used Static variables within the timer to extend
times, and that works fine if the timer is not turned on and off, or has its
Interval changed. But I'm constantly doing that in my app ...

I defined a service on my XP Pro (SP2) install to use srvAny and an app developed
in VB6. This service is happily running without apparent problems, but the same
app, using srvany and defined as a service will not run on the Windows 2003 (SP1)
test server.

I have established an interprocess communication between two
standard VB6 applications using SendMessage, WM_COPYDATA,
and subclassing. Incoming WM_COPYDATA messages will be
catched by a subclass procedure, stored in a stack,

http://upx.sourceforge.net
"UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for
several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression
ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory

I am going to develop a docking station simulator under Windows for IPods in
VB.NET. I use the IPod's serial port connection.
Does anybody know about existing sourcecode sample?
thank you very much. Herbert

Can vb 6 and vb.net coexist on the same PC?  Anyone out there have any
experience with this?  Thanks in advance.

I have a few controls like checkboxes on a form. User can check some of these
checkboxes and close the form. When user opens the form again, I would like
to show
what they selected when the form was open first time. This is while running