VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

When printing to the Adobe PDFWriter, my VB6 program runs to the first
statement trying to print anything to the Printer object. It waits there
as the user is given a dialog box to specify the output file name. If
the user clicks the "Cancel" button in that box, the VB statement ...

If anyone here uses Microsoft Outlook for their email, I can send you
the code of a tool I created for managing that nasty Junk Senders
List.  It really makes taking out the trash a heckuva lot easier.
I'm planning on adding some new features, or you can add your own, if

How do you create a stand alone program? I open my Project and when I
go to click on Make in the file menu, it is blocked out!
Does anyone know whats wrong?

I am writing a macro program in VB6 and want to do the following
1) Set a cursor location as a variable
2) on a button click move the mouse to the variable location and perform a
mouse click  (the location must be in reference to the entire screen not the

I'm trying to create a program that will simplify checking a set of lottery
numbers against the 5 lines of lottery in our works sindicate. Because I
check them monthly it takes ages to check & am trying to think of a simple
vb solution to the problem but being beginer with limited ...

Thanks for the perspectives on my "~1000 unique vars" project, but before I
jump to enumerated Indexs I have to question performance issues with strings
and math calcs against 2 Cases:
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I was wondering whether i can find a control, or some code to allow a
textbox to get only numerical values as input.
The reason i ask for this is that i am planning a prog that will get
currency and/or numerical data only, and calculate percentages, sums etc.

How do I go about doing this?  Basically I have a field where the user
inputs a doctors name, a field where the user inputs the doctors bio, and
then a picturebox where they select an image from their hard disk.  I need
all this info to be saved into a Word template, but I'm not ...

Hello again.  I don't want people to be able to type into my combobox,
so I used a dropdown combobox.  The problem is, if someone selects an
item from the box and then wants to clear the box, I can't go
Combo1.Text = vbNullString or Combo1.Text = "" because it's read only.

VB Experts,
Im trying to write a simple script to accomplish the following:
open text file "abc.txt"
for n = 1 to 100

High I want to be able to get the usable area of the screen, in other words
the area that a maximized window sits in, but without maximizing a window to
do so.
this code works, but is dodgy (it's a few pixles off because of window

I want to be able to display both picture and text together like in a
browser but editable like a textbox.
Is there such a control?

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I have since I've upgraded to XP (the same in win 2000)
a strange scroll wheel behavior in vb6 IDE
it doesn't work in the code window when split into two panes
and the msflexgrid control doesn't scroll at all with the wheel.

Hello again.  Thanks for everyones help btw.  Just one more question.
I have a combo box with 10 items in it.  I would like to write these
items to a sequential file.  I was thinking i could just loop through
the items and write them to the file like so: