VB Forum / Controls / July 2003

I have a routine which continuously runs and collects information on a comm
port for another system. I would like to have it open a diagnostic window
and display, line by line, the information received from the comm port.
Which control would best suit this?

Is there any way passing a password to crystal report 9.0 from Visual Basic
6.0. so that when loading the report in vb6.0., it can connect to the
database access file and show the report?
Thanks a lot.

I use a video editing program called Vegas (similar to Adobe Primere) to
edit video and render the final project to an .avi file (720x480, 29.97
fps).  I want to write a VB6 application that will open and play them but so
far none of the controls I've found will play them.  They ...

I'm writing a control which is basically a container for any registered
application on the workstation. Basically it works like this:
1. The user selects a document
2. Use API to figure out the associated application

I'm using a ListView that has FullRowSelect set to TRUE.  If you
select a ListItem for the first time the 'selection' looks proper; the
whole row is highlighted/shaded.
...BUT, if you happen to select that already selected ListItem again,

I have a tab control with 5 tabs on it. On tab 0 there is
a user signin place and a command button to accept the
signin and validate the user. Upon validation I want to
change the focus to a text box on tab 4 so that the

Can anyone help me to return an application defined object in an event.
I am writing a VB6 ActiveX OCX and I would like to pass an object with all
its properties back to the calling form when an event is raised.

A tricky problem for sturdy programmer!
I've built an ocx named ocxA
with a "public event Change (sa as string, sb as string)"
Everything goes allright when i use early binding : event

I use Install Shield Express ver 2.03 and create a stand alone exe file,
but I must enter several qustions manually.
Is there a way to create a text file to automatically insert these
questions, or what this external file would be called.

Just found Lorenz Ingold's response concerning VB6 and OLE fields out
of Access. Perhaps someone knows how to do something similar with VB6
and SQL Server Image type fields.
I have a SQL Server database that someone let the users embed (from

I have a client based VB6 app where I can view HLP help
files.  How can I view a .CHM compiled  help file?  
Is this possible or am I stuck with .HLP files?
Thanks for any input,

I have a usercontrol that is a control container. I have various
methods that cause constituent controls to be added to the container.
I need to be able to save the control's state, i.e. a list of what
controls have been added, and the values of all their properties.

I have created a custom OCX and have built a kit for its distribution.  The control is licensed (require license is
checked in the project's properties.)  I am using WISE (Installation System v9)  to distribute the control and hoped that WISE would properly
register (and license) ...

How do I check for a quotation mark?   S is a string and I
get an error on:
if (mid(s,3,1) = """) then ...
How to I check if a character is a double quote mark?

I need to hide a property of an ActiveX control in VB properties window. The
property is so-called design-time-only property.
My development tool is VC/ATL.
Thanks in advance.