VB Forum / COM / August 2004

i have a form and the data which i want to print is on frame and the frame
height is greater then form and when i use me.printForm method the print the
form but i have a problem that only the viewable area of form print i use
vscroll to view the hole frame data but i was enable to ...

I have a VB6 application that reads and writes simple ascii nmea GPS
sentences to a serial port (Com-n). Since many new GPS devices support USB,
I like to have the option to change this to USB.
But: I have no idea how to achieve this or even where to start.

Below is a very simple application, just to see if I can do this.
What I want to do is put the two functions, TimesTwo and TimesThree in one
common callable component (a .dll I suppose).
I've created a dll (at least the build went ok) containing those two

Does anyone know how to programatically set a password for an Access
Database, preferably in ADO?   Thanks! - Chris

I read somewhere that OLE_COLOR is treated internally as Long.
Now I have a component which has an interface function as shown:
    sub fn(color as OEL_COLOR)
the color is an output.

I've written a VB app that creates a Word report.  The basic format of the
report is
<Page header>
<table header>

How is it possible to capture the screen (like PrintScreen does) and save
it as a bitmap/jpeg image?

This is a really weird one.   I had been getting strange errors in my code,
which is comprised of an ActiveX EXE which has a single class, which is
GlobalMultiUse.  I have used Matthew Curland's ROT code in Advanced Visual
Basic 6 in order to make an single instance available ...

Can someone tell me the possible causes of the error I have?
I have the error 8021 (Application-defined or object-defined error) in a Sub
that contains the line
   FrmMain.MSComm1.Output = (Q$)

I'm trying to use the following code to open my form1.webrowser1 and
navigate to google.  What am I doing wrong? It does nothing when I compile
it.
Thanks for help,

               I have been trying to get timers working in a COM .DLL to no
avail.  I have tried using the VB Timer control on a hidden form, and I also
tried using Win API calls.  Both methods work great in debug mode but do not
work normally.  I guess this is because the COM DLL ...

I am writing an ActiveX EXE. It has this function:
Public Function Method1() As StdPicture
   Dim tmp As StdPicture
   Set tmp = LoadPicture("c:\test.bmp")

How can I check a certain (X,Y) pixel color on a screen? i mean the value of
its color...

I have implemented a COM server using ATL and it is called by a Visual Basic
client. The requirement is that the server will prompt a question to the
user, whose answer it needs to further process its task. I have implemented
the question asking portion using connection points. ...

Hello;
I have a problem using Dir on a remote shared directory.
example:
   Dir \\mycomputer\mySharedFolder