VB Forum / Controls / November 2003

I am looking for a way of being able to launch files from inside my program
into the windows default applications. Anyone know how to do it?

My brain just isnt in a programing mood today.  I have a bunch of commands
that I am sending to the Comm port.  The problem is that they send one after
another so fast that the results are not what I want and are reported oddly.
So my idea is to put some sort of timer in between the ...

I have a program that need put rtf content on the web page.could you tell me how to display rtf content on the web page

I have a little program that has several list boxes.  If I click on an item
in one list box, it highlights the selection.  If I click on another item in
a DIFFERENT list box, it highlights that selection.  The problem is, the 1st
item chosen is still highlighted.  If I have 6 list ...

Is there any way to get the window handler (hdc) of the drop down list of a
ComboBox?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

i have a simple Form which contains many included Panels.
How can i catch something like a global key-event?
E.g. "Esc" have to be catched in the Main Form, even it is
pressed while an included panel has the focus

I am trying to use the Inet control to connect to a website but I would like
to specify a few custom headers to send.  I am using HTTP and I would like
to add a few headers that are sent to the webserver, is this possible with
the Inet control?  I would prefer to be able to use the ...

I have 3 arrays which contain data that I want to display to user and allow
them to edit.  The data actually comes from different places of a text file.
Is it possible for me to set these data and display them using datagrid?
From the limited knowledge that I have on VB, it seems ...

Does anyone know of a way to mimic the drawer-like effects found in Windows
Media Player?  Specifically, how when you click on some of the buttons of a
skin, things like the equalizer, or song information "drawer" slides out of
the main application window?

I have a windows datagrid that bind to a typed dataset table. how can i
change the width of individual datagrid columns? thanks.

i used 'Shell ("start C:\Test.mpg")' , but file not found.
i used 'Shell ("start")', the problem also occur.
in the dos mode, i typed 'start' or 'start c:\test.mpg', it can work.

is it possible to hide some of the windows datagrid columns in code?

I got a problem here ... i used a ShellLinkObject is retrive some data from
.lnk files (path to execute, working directory, etc ...) but i need to get
the icon path (in some case this is the same as the exe, but this is not
always this !).

I'm working in VB6.
I would like to present some information in the following
format:
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I've never worked with this Internet Transfer control before and am pretty
much in the dark.  The few code examples I've been able to find so far,
always show it connecting to a URL for ftp (i.e. ftp://server, sort of
thing).  Can this control permit me to access an FTP server that ...