VB Forum / COM / September 2003

I have now completed the development of a graphical tool
which is more of Financial Accounting related. I want to
now add it as a plug-in into other Third Party Windows
based applications. Can this be achieved, If YES how (Pls

I posted this in the deployment folder but didn't get a response.
Does anyone know how I can "daisy-chain" install packages.  I want to
install com package after the regular install has completed.
Jason J. Hansen

I have a class inside a VB 6.0 ActiveX exe project, the
Instancing property of the class is set to MultiUse.
Should I do something to protect the public variables
inside this class for concurrent access by multiple

I built a dll addin for Mind Manager. This addin works
good on some XP, 98, 2000 systems (my one is 2000 pro) but
doesn't with some 98 and XP machines.
Who can tell me what option should I select (compatibility

Connecting two test applications via an EXE containing one
class module as a connector object, and several other
class modules.  Connector set Multiuse, others to
PublicNotCreatable.

I'm using VB6 and I would like to make RightToLeft forms (its a Hebrew
windows) but for some reasons, some operation systems (such as Win XP)
support it and Win98 doesn't.
How can I enforce in any way the RightToLeft to be True?

I am looking for an AciveX control or at least a set of Win API functions to
make a telephone program.
Any suggestions?
Samuel

I have a problem with a vb6 application, in that when I try to unload a
modal form, I get the error message 'Error 5 - invalid procedure call or
argument'. It only happens in the compiled .exe version of the app, running
from the IDE produces no problems, and even in the .exe it ...

When creating an instance of a COM object (that I developed in C++) that
uses connection points, how do I determine the value of the cookie that was
returned by Advise()?  All the work of establising the connection point is
done under the VB hood, so I assume the cookie is "hidden" ...

I would like to include in my program the ability to open and print a list
of PDF's.
The methods I have tried have been unsuccesful.
Thanks

I dynamically create Controls on a Form.
I would like to react to the MouseMove-Event of all Controls with a
function.
It is possible in VB.NET to define one single Event-Handler for several

I am trying to make a form which stays on top but doesn't steal focus from
other apps while it pops up from hidden state or background.
Cheers.

example:
ClassA:
Implements ObjectControl
Private m_objCtx        As ObjectContext

I am trying to get the color of a pixel from any given point (anywhere) on
the display. Does anybody know how this can be done? thank you.

I try to create a button on a Standard EXE form to delete
all files with ".log" in the c:\datadump\ with the 10
dates earlier, and then send me an email
to "tom.liu@suntrust.com" saying " ## of log files were