VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

I have a program which I wrote under VB5 Pro which uses a bunch of the
graphical methods to create an image on the screen, and then uses a copy of
the code to produce the output on a printer.  This has worked perfectly for
5 or 6 years.

I have an ActiveX DLL that I created for a customer to record .wav
files for phone calls coming through a Dynametric Telephone Transmit
Patch (cable).
Here's my Win32 declaration:

How can I execute a (external) program within VB, making sure my VB program
doesn't continue until that finishes?
My program in VBA (MS-Access) has to open graphic files for processing
issues.

I am having problems sending a text string stored on the clipboard to
a DOS application using the SendKeys function.
The DOS application is at a wait state waiting for a user to enter a
product code, I want the VB application to send the code to the dos

Quickie question for any VB.NET heads out there....
I have a list box control, and I want to set the display font to
Terminal. However, in the Font property of the object, Terminal is not
one of the available fonts, even though Terminal is a font that is

Hope someone can help me with this! It would be much appreciated!
Am using a Access 2000 Database (actcs2002.mdb) integrated into VB6. I am
having trouble writing a Find command (when the user provides a part of a
surname into a TextBox and clicks the Find button, it should return ...

I am trying to write a Control which needs access to the Form on which it is
placed at design time.  When I code the method I am working with, I code it
as follows:
Public Function MyFunction (frmBlob as Form) as Variant

I am using VB 5.0 Pro and have stumbled across a problem I can't seem to get
around.  I would like to launch an HTML file that is in the folder of my
application with a command button.  I could compile a .chm file and set that
up to run but I just want to have an HTML file start up ...

Hello to all.
I have been trying to work with dates on Visual Basic Version 3.
Using a Textbox (Text1.text)
I understand that "Format" is use to display the date as you like. But what

I am a new programmer and would like some help please.
I will try to explain what I am trying to do.  I have a grid that I am
looping through for the rows that have been selected by the user.  I
then am

I have a button on a form I want pressed by pressing the F12 key (for
convenience sake). How do I map the function key?
Thanks much,
Larry

I have been banging my head against this for way too long (embarrassingly,
it has been days isolating all this) yet I am sure it should be
straightforward.  Newsgroup and Microsoft searches are not coming up with
anything.  Any help would be very much appreciated.

I have been trying to make Remote Debugging work on two machines.  For ease,
let's call the machine with Visual Studio .Net 2003 installed Machine A.
There is also a Machine B, which runs the program I want to debug.  This
debugging needs to be done over the Internet, through ...

I sue the following to launch, then wait for a DOS task to complete.  I
want to have the DOS window come up minimized(or hidden) rather then on
the screen.  Can that be done?
    -Dan

is it possible to start Outlook or Outlook Express in VB6.
I would like to send a newsletter to all e-mail addresses in an array.....
It would be nice, if outlook could start, which all these addresses in bcc
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