VB Forum / COM / February 2004

Are any way to change the text stream object into a string object?
Regards
Alex

I have designed a form that when maximised fills the WHOLE screen so that
you cannot see the task bar.I don't want the user to be able to move the
form or minimise it so controlbox is false, starts maximised in centre of
screen etc. Is there a way to let the user see the task bar ?

I have some legacy programs still in vb4 16 bit - I've just installed a new
machine and cannot find the original install disks.  Any help on finding it
would be appreciated.
Len

Are there any method to retrieve the date time format from the control
panel?
Thanks and Regards
Alex

I'm using a COM server which I pass an empty string to.  The COM server
allocates memory for the string internally (using SysAllocString) and
returns a value in this string. So far so good.
I use the string, then, I am supposed to free this strings memory (returned

I am modifying a COM component that previous interacted with MS Access. I have made changes so that it interacts with SQL Server 2000. There is also a VB 6 executable that I have modified to work with the same SQL Server database instead of its original Access database. Both of ...

This works fine when compiled, but when running in the VB IDE I get
error 430: Class does not support Automation or does not support
expected interface.
Any ideas how to handle this?

No this is no message from a mere coward but a vision from a programming genius. That's right I "guy with comuter" am the greatest programmer in the world and I am here to tell you visual basic is an okay language to use, at least if you were a caveman with a club and a hairy ...

Can any one point me in the right direction.
I want some kind of reference listing to what all the COM's are in the VB6
references list.
Cheers

I have an IDL that defines some enums...
typedef [v1_enum] enum enum_specinfo {
ERR_NO_ERROR = 0,
ERR_NO_COUNT = 1,

I am a novice VB6 programmer and I need to export data aquired from an external piece of equipment to excel to allow the data to be manipulated.  The data is displayed on the screen at present and I have no idea - can anyone help please
Thanks
Paul...

I would like to build an activex dll.
I want to use Type in my activex but I got error message `User defined type
not defined` but I am sure I did define it.
Please look at the code bellow what is wrong?

Run-time error '-2147217887 (80040e21)':
Multiple-step operation generated errors. Check each status value.
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Does anyone knoew why this error is occuring?

Anyone know where I can get a full function MenuBar control.  The one that
comes with VB is a bit tacky (eg background white and you can't seem to put
icons into the menus as in normal Windows product menus).
Dave

   I have a program built in VB6 and it's already running on the customer's
site. This customer is now páying us to build a whole new form exclusive to
him.
   I can't loose the version I'm holding of my software and can't let this