VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

This is my first attempt to join a user group.
I run an iMac and have recently upgraded to OSX, OfficeX, after years
of problems.
I am having difficulties with Find, or maybe do not understand its

Is it possible to add menu items at run-time? If so, how? I want to alter a
sub menu to show the contents of a string array.

I have an email in a standard mailing package inviting people to a
webpage with a form on it. To help them fill out the form I want to
pass various parameters to the form through the hyperlink for example
the email, name and company. These values are taken from the mailing

I am a project manager about to take control of a group of developers
working on projects written in Visual Basic. I am not familiar with VB
and was wondering if anyone could highlight any high-level
architectural issues I should be aware of in VB projects. For example,

Whenever I run a program created with VB 6.0 SP5, Windows
installer launches and tries to run one of my "msi"
files.  I have since deleted the msi file, but Windows
Installer still runs, cannot find the file and exits.  The

Hi again,
I have been experimenting with MSchart control. I have some date to be
plotted as x-axis label. Since the date column date has yyyy/mm/dd
hh:mm format, the label itself takes a lot of space. So while plotting

I'm using an ImageList attached to a Toolbar. In the form Load event,
I'm using the LoadPicture function to assign a bunch of icons to the
ImageList. This means that I'll have to ship the individual icon files
with the app and store them in a known location so they can be read-in

I know that in VB it's not possible to show a non-modal form from a modal
form, so I was wondering if anyone can give me any alternatives.
My scenario is quite simple. the user is on a modal "properties" type form
and one of the buttons performs an action which can take quite a long ...

Can you change the value of a control with a command line compile.
I want to compile with a new form caption.

I'm using VB6 learning edition,
Is there anywhere still selling upgrades or other editions at
reasonable prices ?
or does anyone know if it is possible for me to install API viewer or

I have a small ListView problem.
After the ListView in my app has loaded and sorted the items, I
use
ListView.ListItems(1).Selected = True to auto-select and highlight

Thanks

Hi, I've got a collection called nProperties that I use to store
information of an object, such as nProperties("Size") and so on.  I've
got another collection called PropNames that holds all the names of
the properties in my object.

A program that I'm working on must have a memory leak. When I run the
program on the program on my client's Win98 computer, I occaisionally
recieve an 'Out of Memory' error (error #7). I am not able to duplicate the
error on my development computer (running XPPro), so I'm not sure ...

I have a problem with loadpicture function sometimes hanging up in my VB6
App.