VB Forum / General 2 / December 2003

1. Is there much similarity between Visual Basic and Qbasic?
2. What is the limit on array size for numbers?
3. Is it good for math?
Thanks

I am trying to create a VB6 application which can act as a 'connection
broker' for other applications being run on the same machine.
Essentially, the broker app will setup a number of connections to our
legacy system. Another system will call a Java object, which will

I am writing a small app that checks file versions on workstation
startup.
All my code is in a module and this is run via Sub Main at startup.
My problem is that if I find a problem with any file I want to show a

I am looking for good VB6 websites where there are:
1) current news and analysis articles regarding use of VB6
2) a good place for beginners to learn good distributed appln
development practices

Is there a way I can import a given value to a variable from the main form
to a module?  I wanted to have some routines that are repeated set in a
module subroutine.  However, the value of a variable I need to use in the
equations are not read and the equation's result is erroneous. ...

I'm writing a screensaver that needs to load pictures from the
harddrive and resize them.
Is there a way to do this, probably using multithreading, that doesn't
cause the rest of the program to halt while it is being done?

I have been looking for a vb 6 documentation product similar to Doxygen
for c et al.  Personally, I am looking for a break down of functions,
who calls those functions or who is called by those functions,
descriptions of the methods, functions, procedures, etc, and even

Please, please, please can somebody post here how to use the
Sendmessage API call to send the keystrokes  Alt B, "Y", Tab (*7),
"Danny"
to an application that I have the windows handles and PID's for.

I have a few textboxes placed on a SSTab control devided over 3 tabs
Is there a way to clear all textboxes in one time in stead of one by one.
Someone told me "Use for each item in.........."
???????????

Is there a way that I can bring and excel spread sheet into VB and use the
power of VB to customize it?
Thanks
Tim

 I'm trying to get a "Virtual Listbox" to work.  I've currently got a form,
and used CreateWindowExA to create a ListBox with the LBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED and
LBS_NODATA flags on it.  I've allso subclassed the window and do see all
kinds of WS_??? messages coming by.

Hello Sir/Madam,
I have noticed that I am missing the Intellisense dropdown in Visual
Basic 6.0. I was working on a app last nite and then realized that
when I was typing my control name and then "." the drop down wasn't

at this line :
Line Input #2, tmp
vb says:
input past end of file?

I tried to post this earlier.  I can't find my earlier posting.  Sorry if
this is a dup.
I am using code that I got on this newsgroup.  Works great except today when
I used it at work I realized the workbook I am pulling into the Ole

In one of my projects i use a SSTAB object with a view controls on it
(textboxes and a checkbox).
I want to set the enable property for all the controls on the SSTAB object
to FALSE.