VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

While typing in a Rich Text Box, CTRL+R seems to set it to a
right-justified mode. Can I suppress this feature?
In my application, it would do nothing but confuse the user. I make
use of other CTRL keys to insert commonly used strings, so it is quite

I have this code in my main form:
Private Sub cmdGetWeather_Click()
Dim strKey                  As String
Dim strInfo                 As String

Anyone know of a good (freeware) code analyzer for VB3-projects? I'm taking
over a big and old project from someone else, and need to get an overview of
the code as well as simple listings of files, procedures, forms and so on.
Regards...

Hi everyone.  I am having a problem reading the contents of a file into
a ComboBox.  I end up with only the last item being read into the list.
 Can someone show me what is wrong?
Thanks.

Does anyone have documentation for the windows api call
midiOutShortMsg? I have looked on several sites and MSDN but none of
them explain exactly what information needs to be sent to generate a
certain tone and the properties of the tone. I dont know much about

I am doing a homebased .net course and i asked to give some real world
examples of what type of things HTML, C++ and Visual Basic have been used to
design. Can anyone help?
thanks

I have a spreadsheet with a list of accounts (names, address, tel #'s,
etc... it is something that I constantly have to add to and change info on.
What I want to do is write a program that will have an interface and once
input is put into it, it will put it back in certain cells ...

I'm using Visual Basic 6 and I'm trying to make a program to change the
colours of traffic lights.
I am using 3 oval shapes, for each light.  I want the traffic lights to
change colour through the standard traffic light sequence by changing the

 I have a problem - after the last Put is called, it
 adds extra 2 bytes to the file. MSDN says that Put might
 add extra 2 bytes. Why does Put add 2 extra bytes in this
 case and how do I avoid that?

I want to check that the first 4 digits of a 10 digit reference are
between 0000 and 9999 but when i input the code VB automatically
changes the 0000 to 0, I have tried using "0000" ie
If Left(AccRef, 4) > "0000" And Left(AccRef, 4) < 9999 Then

I've been chasing a problem for over a month without resolution. I
program that works fine on 98/NT/2000 fails on XP, but only on an XP
machine without Visual Studio installed. I have logging that tells me
where the error occurs, but obsolutely no clue how to fix it. I have

Hello..have set up a log-in page with user name stored as txtUsername.
How do I make this name appear on subsequent panels in the status bar.
I know about writing to the panels when there are more than one but where
does the code go...in the panel properties or in the form code?

This is the first timw I am entering into this Group.
I am developing a VB Project with an MDI form.
I want to display IE Favorites into my application. For this I need to
create Submenus and Menuitems dynamically. It is possible to create

I have an input box asking for various bit of data, 1 bit of data is
an account reference ('AccRef' in code) this reference will be 3 alpha
and 5 numerical characters eg LGD12345.  I want to check that the
first 2 digit are 'LG' and have the following code to do this -

I have a form with a picture box and some command buttons to make
certain shapes appear in the picture box. The shapes are drawn on
blank UserControls added like this:
'at top of form module