VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

I am trying to navigate between two different forms and I need to know
how I can do it without showing the effects in the Taskbar?  Can
anyone give me a snippet which can prevent it to show there is any
change between two forms.

it's not possible to open the Common dialog box, regardless it is a brand
new project or an old one.
Visual studio crash every time.
I'm running XP, and Visual studio 6.0 SP 5.

Can someone tell me how I can do the following. I am using VB6.
I want to be able to type in my own conditions at runtime, and then solve
it. For example:-
A simple form with 2 text boxes and one command button.

I am trying to create a program that will launch when my .blobb file gets
downloaded from a web page.
How do I associate my files .blobb extension with my Visual Basic
application?

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

Thanks for responding J French
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I assume you are finding the hWnd and using SetParent
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Is there any way to place an animated gif in a VB program? It doesn't
work with either the image control or picturebox, is there another way
to display images that will retain the animation?
Semi-related question:

Why do I keep getting this error message when I try to unregister a DLL I created?
LoadLibrary ("G:\Data|Visual") failed.
GetLastError returns 0x00000485
I can't get rid of either DLL's or EXE's.

I am posting this information in hopes that it will help someone else.  I've
wasted two days now trying to solve this simple problem.
The problem was this:  I needed to use a combo box to display the names of
industries. When the user selected an industry from the list, I needed to

I have a friend who says he's willing to pay someone if they have a
product that allows him to enter his Quickbook Invoices out in the
field on his laptop, then come back home and import them into his
Quickbooks. I think, but am not certain, that this requires work with

I am trying to speed up a process that sets fonts and colours in an RTB. I
tried the following code (recommended in several places) in a .bas module
with no effect at all. Can anyone help me?
Dan

i have to forms (form1.vb, form2.vb) , and a button on one form (form1.vb),
.. when i want to press that button on the first form, i want it to take me
to the second form  .. and hide the first form ..
i know that in the old vb it was form1.hide & form2.show ... but now i dont

I know this has probably been asked a million times and I have searched
Google on and off -- what I need however is a dumbed down tutorial or a demo
project I can play with.  I have coded a multi threaded IRC client that can
hit multiple servers at the same time and do all kindsa ...

Hi All, Me Again,
Hope everyone is feeling well and are unscathed from many late night parties
on the 31st.  I know I'm still feeling a bit under the weather!.
Any to it we go.

how can i make the backcolor of a form transparent
best regards
Henrik