VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

I need a routine that checks if two files are located on the same drive. I
was just thinking of checking the first three letters of the path and if
they are equal, assuming they are on the same drive.
Can anyone see any problems with this?

I have a MSFlexGrid designed as to represents virtual registers in an
embedded machine. i.e. 16bits (columns) by 100 registers (rows).
Currently to edit the bits you left click on the cell you want and then you
can right click to bring up a popup menu to allow you to rename, add, ...

Hi.  There are quite a few applications out there that have really nice,
clean UIs.  I am thinking of some apps from Microsoft, but really more
along the lines of RealOne Player, Symantec apps and McAfee.
The VB 6 tool set has some fairly bland tools for UI.  Are there some

I have installed VB 6 (enterprise edition)  and works fairly well. However,
when I start packaging a project in the package and deployment wizard, I get
the following error:
"Unexpected error has occured Error 429: Active X component can't create

PROBLEMS I Haven't solved:
   1.  Timing issue between real-time server #1 and my drawing tools.
Will moving the tools
         (currently within module) to an ActiveX (exe or DLL) solve the

I have a problem of which I am pretty sure it shouldn't be that difficult:
I ask the user a few parameters with which I want to launch a program in a
DOS command line. So for example the command line looks as follows:
C:\program.exe -p1 par1 -p2 par2 -p3 par3

Sorry for the confusing subject, but I'm hoping that you will be able to
help.
In very basic terms I want to emulate a <SELECT> HTML box in VB.
All I want to do is display a title name in the drop-down list, but the

I don't get this to work the regqueryvalue returns error 2 and of cource no
value for the key. Anyone any idea?
Yes, I know regqueryvalueEX exists and that works fine. But I want this to
work in 16-bit (W98). It doesn't work in either w98 and XP.

Hello Group,
I am working on a program that basically consists of a form and some loops.
These loops are controlled by a timer and run about 20 sec. In this loop I
need to check for some keyDown-events. Simply using Form_KeyDown doesn't

Have a big problem attaching the Common Dialog box into the project. When I
choose Project/Components/Common Dialog box, the project crash down, and
shows an error text.
Havent had the problem before when I ran Win 2000 Pro, it shows up when I've

I know how to use the treeview in visual basic but i cant get it to work in
microsoft access how come is there a completely different procedure?
wstoreyii

Could anyone please help me with any method to search a database. I am trying
to search for range of dates. Example: I want to find if
1/02/2004-1/15/2004 exit in a database. The table has two fields;
StartDate and EndDate.

I'm trying to use imagemagick with shell() but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.
Here is the code I have:
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For i = 0 To File1.ListCount - 1

I need to catch the WM_Close for an external, program so I can do some
processing. I have been using SSUBTIMER and someother methods but they
only respond to messages send to the form in my project. I need to get
the messages from windows telling the form to close.

Greetings All
I am currently attempting to pass an STDPicture object to the Picture
property of a class module within a DLL.  However, none of the usual methods
seem to apply. The Microsoft Knowledge base has very little on the