VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

Hi ppl,
can I get some data from webpages?

I have a data entry form that allows the user to navigate around
entirely using the keyboard.  However, it contains various option
button controls which are in the tab order.  Whenever they are "hit"
in the tab order, they are immediately "pressed" (e.g. they go from

Hello,
lately I updated my windows version to win2k sp4. As a result the
attched code stoped working. The code is coded in VB, and used to work
perfectly till then.

My question is: How do I get my application to start by double clicking on a
file.  I have made my application to save files with a specific extension.
I associated those files to my application through the standard routine of
windows (double clicking, a pop up menu asks me what ...

does anybody know how you can load a text file containing for example
numbers into an array
example a a text file containing 10 rows and 10 colums of numbers like
example below

I want to set the textbox.maxlength to fields from some recordset. I can
use textbox.maxlength=rs.fields("name").definedsize. But then I have to
create a recset first by opening it and reading a dummy row from the table.
I don't want to do that. Is there a way to just retrieve the ...

I am trying to get the color information from the pixel that my mouse is
pointing at.
I can't seem to figure out how to get this work.  I am using VB6.
Basically, I will want to point my mouse over a form window and click on a

SELECT *
FROM tblDateActivity
WHERE ( (dtmDate = #01/01/1990#) AND ((isPM = 0) OR (numSlot < 5)) );
Works as expected in MSAccess97

I am starting to program a demo for my DLL, but I cannot access the
methods in Visual Basic.
How can I do this? Do I have to import the dll somewhere?
Thanks.

    I have made hand clock, and every second i change hand's location
(using timer) but it is changing only about every 15 seconds.
I tried to do refresh on form and on clock's hand, but it did not help.
How can i force Shape object to be refreshed every timer tick (every

I try to print a single record containing biographical information using a
query with two related tables. Result is that I get two prints of one person.
Since this person has two jobs the record is printed twice.
So Mr. Johnson - Architect

kb article # 310451 fix unhandled exception in vb6.exe
when using components from managed code. Can anyone
explain 'managed code' Also, how does one get a copy of
the msvbvm60.dll version 6.0.9495 mentioned in the

How can I dynamically create more controlls like command buttons or labels.
Thanks in advance.