VB Forum / Controls / September 2003

How do i read barcode into a variable? I have a bar code
reader connected to my mouse. I have fonts, if they are
needed.

I have some modem sharing software which creates some virtual serial ports
(COM3 to COM6 and COM21 - COM24) on my Win XP machine.  I'm trying to write
a VB program which interrogates these ports to see which are in use, and I'm
getting an error when trying to assign the higher ...

I have a tabstrip control and want to place information on each tab.
How do I do this?
With the other tab control I could place a textbox on each tab page but I
can't seem to do this for the tabstrip

I am trying to write a small program that contains our IT policy.
using VB6
At the moment I have a tab page control with each tab having a text box.
Problem with this is that some topics have a lot of writing in them

I give up... Even Google has let me down!
I have a simple User Control in VB6, that uses another Form (hidden)
The Form is rather large and holds code for running my Winsock
and some other Multimedia routines.

I have a custom control, written in VB6 that has one property,
(CenterIDValue).  My control lives in an ASP and  I need to be able to
change and read the value of this control property from the ASP at run-time.
Currently, I am accessing the control from scripting functions.

how do i write vb scripting for connetion, read, and write to sql or
msacess's progressbar
thanks
CL2

I want to use the right click in a text box to open a popupmenu, I notice
that when I right click in it I get the copy/paste/select all popup instead,
but when I hit esc I get my popup.
How may I prevent the copy/put/select all popup and get my popup menu first?

hi,
I am a pretty new to VB6.
I am reading a value from an excel sheet and am interested in cells that have values such as
1-1 or 4-555 or 5-3 or other combinations, but it does contain numbers with a dash.

I'm developing a small POS application. I need adivce on which best
combination of controls can I use to display each transaction line item and
a total for the transactions. I will need to remove and add lines items, and
have the total reflect my changes. Sort of like a new ...

After some quick investigation I found only one post regarding this and it
was unanswered...
Using Access 2000,vb6 sp5 under win2k sp4
I have a custom chart control that we use in applications. The OCX is

I already posted once, but nobody answer me. Please help
me. How tab key action navigate controls in a form? Is
there list? If there were list for that, How can I access
it? Can I make same action with Enter(Return) Key?

hi,
I want to be able to read an excel sheet and pick up value from each line and manipulate it.
for example,
the excel sheet has five columns A B C D E

I'm new to VisualStudio.net and I'm learning VB.net right
now.  I need to create a form that lets a user enter a
number from 1 to 19999 in a textbox.  When the user
clicks the button, the name of the number is displayed in

Is there an OCX file that I can use to put the Outlook
Calendar inside a Visual basic Form.