VB Forum / General 2 / December 2003

This is more of a theory question than anything, but here goes. If I
have an ActiveX DLL early bound by a standard EXE, there should be no
reason that I can't do this (I think)...
My.DLL::Class1

How do I keep a form on top?
When my app loads it starts with frm_main witch in turn pops up a small
dialogue to make sure date and time are ok.
My problem is I try to show a small form frm_Setup if I detect errors in the

Is there a way to send data to and read it directly from the parallel
printer port using VB6? We did this years ago on a 8088 using assembly
language. I need to be able to set each bit high or low and also read in if
switches on the parallel printer port are open or closed.

We are a small programming company that has customers with Okidata printers
(set to IBM emulation). We do not want to print in a font that would result
in near letter quality printing as it is very slow. So in our code we have
printer.font = "12 CPI HSD", or "10 CPI UTILITY". ...

I'm trying to create a vbscript so that I can autologin and
get my tasks done unattended. As part of my code, I'm trying
to click to get the vbscript to click the "Login" button but
I'm always getting that error mentioned below. The unusual

I am now ready to distribute my VB6 application. I am using the Jordan
Russell Inno Setup Compiler (freeware). It looks nice. (I didn't have much
luck with the PDW.) How do I determine which files to include in the
distribution disk -- dll's etc.?

I have a program that presents a version of a metronome. The program plays
repeatedly (at different rates) a .wav file. I do that with the
sndPlatSound api call, and figured out how to read the .wav into memory
and play it from there, to be a little more efficient. My question is ...

I'm developping an application using a macro (in Excel) and a DLL that I
wrote.
The problem is that when I'm trying to declare my function from the DLL in
my macro, I've got an Runtime Error 53 : File not found 'MyAPI.dll' .

One of the C programmers here showed me an interesting problem hoping
that I (being a VB programmer) could help him. I could not.
He is developing some visual c++ dll's and ocx's to be used in our VB
projects. He made some skeletal vb code to test his work and ran into

Does anyone know how to get hold of a vb6.0 professional installation CD? I
lost my CD and am unable to find a retailer still selling it.
Cheers
Soeren

I am using XMLHTTP from a VB client app to talk to a web server.
If the user has IE set to offline mode, I get back the error code 0x800C0008
(decimal -2146697208) when trying to send the request.
I found this code in MSDN and the mnemonic for it is INET_E_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE

I have a function with an optional argument (formobject type). When I call
the function without the optional arg, but DO FILL IN the optional argument
in the function. I do not get an error! Is that coincidance? The returned
argument can be used without problem.

I have moved all of my VB development to a PC that uses
the Windows XP Professional OS.  All of my VB6.0
applications terminate with a GPF error "error signature"
when I select File, Exit from the design mode.  The error

I am new to SQL Server. I am attempting to execute an insert query,
but I keep getting an entire range of errors depending on which way I
choose to do it. Can anybody tell me what is wrong with my code below?
"txtkeyword" is a text box on my form.

As everyone is probably aware, I'm weak when it come to VB. But I'm also
very interested in learning more about it. How do I compare two text files?
I want to be able to compare FileA with FileB. If the two text files have
the same text (customer number) then line from FileA and ...