VB Forum / General 2 / October 2003

Could someone please tell me how I can get a slider disabled?  I click on
"enable" and turn it to "false", I save my project, I close the VB6, then
when I open it the next day, the sliders are enabled!  I had to compile and
make an executable and every time I open the project I need ...

I have a notepad like application i am writing that uses mdichild
forms.  From the the mdichild form there is a menu object that opens a
find form.  i am trying to reference the activechild richtextbox in my
code to perform an instr function.  But the active child keeps showing

I want to export a datefield in a textfile. This isn't the poblem but I want
the export in English format although my windows is in Dutch.
For example 21-3-1961 is exported as 21 mrt 1961 but it should say 21 mar
1961.

I'm working on a charting program.
I would like the ability to plot one or more arrows on my chart where the
point of the arrow corresponds to where I clicked on the chart.
I offer the user of the program a choice of arrow directions for pointing:

Just to save me some trouble later on, does anyone know if there is an
upper-limit for the number of cases you can have in a select
statement?
For instance, can I have a couple of select statements with 255 cases

Is it possible to get a time event at a specific time, for instance
eight a'clock? My program is running in the background and is
minimized to the tray bar.
If not, is there a smooth way to accomplish this in a different way?

How do I get a VB app to run the default internet browser and load a
specific page into the browser?
Dennis
Mosherville, Mich.

I want to implement a common kind of "menu", but I don't know the name
of it, so I don't know where to start look.
If you for example right click on your desktop choosing Properties,
you'll get this menu on top of the properties window. From the menu

Hi, my problem is with the image control. When i select a
jpg image i some cases the quality is very bad, but i can
see the same image perfectly with the explorer.
Some one know what's the problem?

Hi, all.
I wasn't sure which newsgroup to post this to, but I'm hoping someone in
here might know the answer.
Something recently happened to my VB6 environment which screwed up the

 i am using vb6 to export records from access database to an excel
sheet in the form of a table.each table in excel sheet corresponds to
corresponding records in access database.
right now i have 7 records and its creating 7 different excel sheets

I am trying to use variables that are gathered from input boxes to do a
calc.   I am getting type mismatch errors listed below is the code
this worksheet has a listing of homes with misc data.  Each goes into a cell
on the excel spreadsheet.

I am about to start a new job and one of my first tasks will be to port an
old VB (for DOS) application to VB.net. I have quite a bit of experience
with VB 6.0 and no experience with VB.net (or VB for DOS). This application
requires communications with external devices over the ...

I am having some trouble with serializable objects being accessed over
a web service in VB.NET.  What I am trying to accomplish is to have a
ProductDetail class that has a property named Colors that is a
collection of Color class objects indexed by the colorID.  I have

I am wondering why when I run a prog it does one thing and if I put in a
break point, then just step through it, I get a different outcome?
Shouldn't the prog run the same either way? it isn't using any kb input or
anything.