VB Forum / Controls / December 2004

I'm learning Visual basic.net and I am new to the world of developing and
coding. I am having a practice creating a very simple game.
Baiscally, there is a textbox, button and listbox.
What I am doing is a Guess the number game.

Does anyone know how to set the background color on the tab control itself
to set the color of the tabs?

I've found  a lot of examples for using mscomm32.ocx to implement serial
comm, but this file is not shipped with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and that's
all I really have access to. Is there someplace I can dnload it, or is there
a good workaround?

I have a program that fits in a 1024x768 screen. However, some of our
clients require 1152x768 screens or higher or sometimes lower. Can somebody
recommend a way to keep the screen in the right "scale"?
Thanks

I am using the webbrowser control to view some Word rtf files.  The
webbrowser in turns uses winword.exe as a plug-in to do so.  The problem is
once I navigate to a rtf doc, that doc is locked until I exit the app (see
attempt to delete file below).  

i have VB ActiveX control, and implemented a Public Function that accepts an
optional parameter. Based upon optional parameter, the behavior of the
Function is different. Now when I generate C++ wrapper for this VB control by
adding it to a VC++ dialog application, I get that ...

I try to write a VB .Net application which does some time-consuming work on
a database in a separate module. I want to see the progress in my main form,
so I defined an Interface to update the ProgressBar in the main form.
However, the control is not updated. Textboxes which I ...

Thanks.
Jack

I'm using VB6/SP6.
I would like to print and/or display oddball characters from various fonts.
My specific examples are up arrows and down arrows.
In the Courier New font set, the up arrow has the Unicode U+2191 and the

How do I specify the path/folder for a CommonDialog object? I know how to set
some of the properties (e.g. frmMain.CommonDialog1.Filter = "*.txt|*.txt")
but the CommonDialog always opens to the path/folder in which the application
resides.

I have written a code to open excel fiel in vb but i am unable to open my
code looks like this
Private Sub Command1_Click()
   CommonDialog1.DialogTitle = "Status Log Upload"

The Inet1 (Internet Transfer Protocol) control automatically handles a
server redirection (eg 302 object moved generated from, say an ASP
response.redirect) -- ie if you connect to a site and the server redirects
you to another site, Inet1 automatically retrieves data from the ...

I am just asking for a little bit of your guidance and help which would be
very much appreciated. I am struggling to open up a web page from within a
VB6 application. Ideally I would have a text box with a url in it, then for a
user to be able to double click on the text box. ...

A student from my department is traying to use the MsChart control with
Visual Basic 6 to draw some pie chart.
His problem is that when there are small slices on the chart the labels with
the %value are overlapped with each others.

And what can I do when it exceeds that limit?
Thanks and Merry Christmas!