VB Forum / General 2 / December 2003

I have posted a free download of my VB6 application at my website
http://www.dcproof.com (2.6Mb)
Users are unable to bring up the HTML Help viewer, even with the latest
Windows updates installed.

Hi all..
How do I insert the system date from VB6 to DBF file using SQL?
I tried this and I get Datatype mismatch error.
Can anyone pls advise?

Please help.
VB 6, SP 5 on a Win XP Pro machine.
When I close a project by exiting VB, I get the error message:
"Visual Basic has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for

This is a strange request, but I just cannot fathom how to do it.
In theory the requirement is very basic, but in practise its a noodle!!
I have 10 team names like so:
Team A

2nd post of the day! I'm just learning about Arrays at College and have met
a problem. I have 5 text boxes for number input, a command button to add the
numbers to the array, and a command button which displays the array contents
in 5 labels. My program works fine. The problem is ...

I'm using the MSComm OCX to communicate with a robot. I send a command
out and the robot sends back a response. The problem I'm having is it
takes a couple seconds round trip for the VB program to receive the
data. I know it's not the robots fault because I have a similar

I am having some trouble with Get and Put with a type which contains strings
of variabe length.
Writing is working fine, but as then length of the type varies I am getting
bad results with reading.

I use a one way satellite system and every time I start out I have to logon
to a web page,
https://sdr.eutelsat.net/servlets/satlogin I would like to do this via a vb
application. I'm not that hot on the web control in VB6, I've never needed

i can open and write to text files from excel , but is it possible to do the
same with word docs.
col.

I have what should be a simple problem. In a Picture Box I have some
black areas on a white b/g.  I can find a point within each one that is
black. I want to then flood fill them with say vbRed.
The AllAPI folk do give an example but it uses no less than 21 API

I have a listbox with multiple selecting on.
So, what I wanna know is:
How can I know wich items I've selected.
eg. I need items 1, 2 and 4 out of 10

Anyone know how to extract files from a CAB file? I'm looking for VB source
code.

I work in the paper industry and we recently had someone (the original
author) from within the company make a program for preventive maintenance.
However, it had some bugs and we wanted to add stuff to it, bu tthe original
author/programmer was leaving, so we called in a free agent ...

I'm using VB.Net 2003 standard edition, on my XP professional laptop,
which also has SQL-Server 2000 installed.
I'm having trouble connecting to an SQL-Server database (eg.
Northwind), as follows:

I want to realize an update of my vb6-program over the
network. Do you know any concepts to realize this
problem? The challenge seems to be the replacing of the
program.exe at runtime.