VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

I've developped an application under Visual Basic 5.0.
This application manage the parallel port.
Application is working well under Windows XP Pro, but will not work under
Windows XP Familly edition.

Has anyone ever written a util that sits in the Windows taskbar that allows
you to change the proxy set in IE without having to go through the Internet
Option in IE etc
I work for a Support group where we have to test various websites through a

For some unknown reason this code came out to be true on 1/5/04 @ around
4:30 pm CST
At about 5:00 pm CST it stopped being true? Weird eh?
Below is the code, it messed up all the punches for the day.

Hi I would like to write a (very) simple program (visual basic) that lets me
choose between soms files wich I want to open. After it has opened (for
example Notepad) it should end (terminate) itself (that is the choice menu
wich I want to make)

Im Kinda new to vb6 and I want to make a simple ImageViewer Kinda thing.
I would like to have a DirBox and Have it show a special Directory ONLY. Then Say C:/images/ is where it is set, I want to make user be able to just click on say Image1.jpg and have it display Image1.jpg in ...

Not sure how easy this is.  I imagine that something probably already
exists.
I have a computer I keep on all the time and another one I use for all
business stuff that I typically keep hybernated.  I would like to have the

I am trying to find a VBA routine that will launch an Access program
from a VBA macro in reflexion 10.0
I tryed the direction from WRQ VBA manual (available in there site -
http://support.wrq.com/assets/vbug.pdf) but its does not work 100%.  I

Hey all,
I am new to VB .NET and wanted to know how to prompt the user for a file
name which I would then assign to a local variable.
So, what is the function call that will accomplish this?

Hi...
I'm using the win api function RegSetValueEx (advapi32.dll) to write
binary data to the windows register. I want to write the following
value to a binary key:

I first created several ActiveX DLL's which interact with each other, an SQL
Server database, ... Some Active DLL's use different references: i.e. one
that does not interact with a database, does not need de ADO reference.
Above these different ActiveX DLL's, I have created another ...

Hi all, I'ld ask you a little question about Calendar control for VB6
(mscal.ocx)
I try application with 1 form and inside it there is a Calendar that
will be visualize based on the months.

Hi there I hope someone can help. I am using the DE and Data Reports in
VB6. At design time the command for each report is set using the DE. At
runtime this switches to a sql statement. When I first run the report with
specific criteria it picks up the correct results, however if I ...

I'm new to to the visual basic programming.  And I'm trying to do something
like this... It's a simple form with 2 buttons, When 1st button is pressed, it
displays on the form either Hello or Welcome on top, the 2nd button is to exit
the program.

I am learning about POP3, and have a question regarding deletes.
The RFC states that the syntax is "DELE 2" for delete message #2 in the
mailbox. I can understand that pretty well.
Where I have difficulty understanding is:

How can you tell if a form is loaded, or visible?
would this work (from form2)
if form1.visible = true then
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