VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

I am trying to print text onto a pre-printed form(invoice).
I realize I have to use Printer.currentx and printer.currentY to
establish where text should print on the form.
However, I am also trying to justify the text on the form

I have a large VB6SP5 project that I need to make a copy of and change the
project name to make it a new product in a line-up. This should be
relatively straightforward - just change the name in the project
properties...but when i do this, all the user controls in the project lose

I'm having some trouble with a conversion between datatypes.
I have a long variable containing the value of 12345678. I know that
the long values are stored in memory in 4 bytes. I want to get this 4
bytes and copy them to a byte array or string. Is there any

Hi all..
I have a somewhat simple question, which I simply cannot figure out what
went wrong.
I need to extract a date in grids to date format.. and then store it in a

How do I totally remove source safe from a project?  I built a project from
Source Safe, then I deleted all the source save files from the working
folder.  That let me load up and write to the files, but I still get "Do you
want to check out" or other types of messages.  I don't ...

i have a problem related to .NET
i've installed VS.NET bu when i try to debug any solution i make, it
does not debug and in the end i've to end the task, but the EXE is
successfully created and can be run directly

On a scale of 1 to 10, I am about a 4 programmer!
I wrote a fairly sophisticated program in VB6 and used the install wizard to
create a setup package for our customers. We tested the package on several
systems and it worked fine. But we apparently didn't test it on a Win2K system.

Hiya,
Im currently creating a VB program for connecting to an FTP account, i
can do this part without a problem, I just want to store my
information in an XOR'ed file, I have the parts of my program but I

i need to be able to rotat images and to do some basic filters ie , redeye,
autocolors ect.
i want to know if i should use an imagebox picture box or i noticed a
control called imagebox2 which seems to be able to do what i want but i cant

Hello!
Is there a way, to open more then one instance of an application in
the same form, like in Word or Excel, and change between them with the
"Menu -> Window1" .... and so on ??????

I need a simple excel macro that searches the first 1000 rows, column A
only, of the active worksheet and all text past the first space of each cell
is copied into the B column.  Any ideas?
Cheers

I'd like to know how to have part of my code execute every seconds.  So far
i've tried reading about Timer (either it doesnt help or i get it wrong) and
thread (dont exist in vb).
I need to be able to be able to have some control (mainly bitmaps) because

At work I have a problem. I got new software maintenance responsiblity
to one Visual Basic 6 application, but to do this properly I'm missing
Visual Basic source files as Visual Basic understands them. The
currrently source files are printed to PDF. Other thing is that all

Hai all,
I have created an application which is something like a trouble
shooter. I want to use the F12 key. When the is user is using some
other application say Internet Explorer and if he presses F12 then my

I am doing a "Fields = split(buf, " ") but I want the first field found
to go into Fields(1) not Fields(0). I have declared "Option Base 1" at
the start of my subroutine.
Any ideas or help?