VB Forum / Controls / February 2004

I want to read in 24-bit colorconstants, but when I used
Get #1,  ,abc
where abc is of type colorconstants, it read in 16-bit at a time and when I
used long 32-bit at a time. How about 24-bit? I want to verify that maybe I

I wrote some color values (RGB) into a file and read them back to an array,
they are of type colorcontants, but the sizes of each colorcontant vary. For
example, some color constants contain 10 digits plus a negative sign
,therefore 11 digits in all.

Is there a control, that will allow me to display a TIFF file in my app?  I
tried the picturebox and image controls and neither seemed to like the TIFF
format.  I also tried the Microsoft Office Document Imaging Type Library and
this seems to display the image, but I have not been ...

 Is it possible to control the parallel/serial port by using VBA in excel?
 Just like INP() and OUT() in qbasic.
Thanks in advance
oscar

what is the best configuration for using the maskedbox.
i'm using '99/99/9999' as the mask, '_' as the prompt, clipmode is
mskIncludeLiterals, prompt include = false.
question is if i include the prompt i get '_' which makes date value

I using a mail client which is 'Scribe' and I have set it as my default mail
client.
I have a Visual Basic application which use the MAPI Controls to create a
simple mail with a text and a destination address. When I try to use the

Can anyone help me understand what I might be doing wrong here. I want to create an e-mail using the MAPI control that sends 1 or more file attachements. The following code works fine to create a message with no attachements
               With frmMain!MAPIMes
                    ...

Does anyone know how I can colour the days of the monthview control. I can
not set the forecolour of any particular day but whn I select a day the
control does this automnatically.
I would like to colour certain days red and others green based on certain

Dear VB guru,
I chose "pixels" for scalemode
how come when I tried to work out the X-Y Positions of straight lines by the
application, negative coordinates appeared? I must confirm that there are no

Little rant here cause this is totally pissing me off.
Can anyone explain why Microsoft's DataCombo does not respond to the basic
SendMessages that it's corresponding "ComboBox" cousin responds to? It
absolutely boggles my mind why anyone would make an "advanced" version of

My OS is WinXP SP1.
I have officeXP SP2 (the newest product I have
installed), and in /system32 folder I have MSCOMCTL.ocx of version
6.1.95.45.

I'm having some difficulties related to pens used for plotting lines on
a 2D line graph in MSChart. First, according to the documentation, the
pen width is in points, but the default width is 40. Wouldn't a 40 point
line be something like a couple of inches thick? So I'm wondering ...

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I am using mscomm in my application,it is working fine my problem is that when i am running the exe 2 time
in same computer,first time runned exe transfer data to comm port, the second one is showing erro
Port already opened,i am also checking (IF mscomm1.portopen.true).How can i ...

Is that a way to change backcolor of certain rows on a MSFLEXGRID, even if
they are not adjacent ?
Thanks.

Is there a way to find character index of the first "red" character?
As a common task: is there a way to search for particularly formatted text
(italic, bold, font size, etc.) ?
Thanks in advance,