VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

I downloaded the info-zip library and source from vbaccelerator.com. At
first everything worked fine, until I tried a text file, which crashed
even the precompiled demo file from vbaccelerator.
I tried to figure out, what was so special about that text file, but I

(Apologies for having to post a Visual C++ question on a VB newsgroup,
but my news server didn't seem to have a suitable VC++ group, and
this was as close as I could find ...)
I have a header file, called "buffer.h", which never used to cause me

I want to get/set the database custom properties of a 2002 MSAccess
database. How can I do tha?. I found this question several times via Google,
but none answered it. But the newest question was from 2001, maybe in 2003
an answer is possible?

after i pack my vb program using package and deployment wizard, i try
to install the program on other computer instead of my computer and
run the program.
when i click add a new record to the Microsoft Access database, the

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'm attempting to open an USB HID device using createfile from kernel32.
The open attempt always fails.  This is the call I'm using:
CreateFile(HidName$, &HC0000000, 3, 0, 3, 0 ,0)
HidName$ gets assigned the device:

This is a great set of code for TAPI which does everything; however, I am
having the worst time trying to figure out why the form is being
reinitialized from the timerhandler instead of just calling
GetLineMessage like I really need it to.

   is there any easy way to have a VB program running as a process which
starts automatically on a desktop. I have developed a small app. that
maintains seven backups of an Access database. The program performs the
backup at 4 am. The form is invisiible and there is no need for the ...

Hello...getting an 'argument not optional' message when testing first
attempt at DDB
Option Explicit
Dim cost As Double

I have a form that has a text box that allows multi-line text.  When I
read an 80K file into it, only 64K characters are stored and
displayed.  However, if I copy from the 80K file using the Windows
clipboard commands and then paste into the text box, all the

Hello, I would like to start learning Visual Basic, and I was wondering if
there are any recomendations to any ebooks, or actual books for that
matter. I have my eye on this book by John Smiley, any comments/suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.

  I wanted to write a VB program to transfer some files between 2 PCs
situated remotely, say, 10 miles apart, using the public telephone
network. This is basically what I want to do:
1. PC1 dials to PC2

Hey all.
I have a whiteboard type program.
I have 2 picturebox's (needed for their mousemove/mousedown events)
Picture1.Picture = MyPicture

me and my friend made a media player and we need to know if there is anyway
to make a visualisation for it.

Hello...getting an 'argument not optional' message when testing first
attempt at DDB
Option Explicit
Dim cost As Double