VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

Is there a way to bring in an image onto a form that is NOT square
but has an irregular shape for example: the shape of Ohio or Michigan...
I wanted to create an electoral college map where each state would be
a separate image that can you can click on to designate Dem or Rep

For my error handler I would like to find out in which function (or
stack) the error occures.  VB Err Object only has the Source property.
Is it possible to find out the function name (or stack information)
with an API function?

I'm a web developer (cold fusion, php, access, mySQL).  A client would
like for me to build a windows based app for him. I have suggested
that he keep it web-based but he insists that it be available on
unconnected desktops. (It is catalogue of items. Selecting an item

lets say i have a firstname and lastname in a text box and i only want
to pull the last name out the text box seperate from the first.
for ex:
text1 = Donald Duck

Dear everyone,
I have build a TreeView object (treeViewObj, with checkBox = true) and
have successfully add a list of Nodes into it.
Right now, I need to do a traversal on treeViewObj which return the

I open a Word document in my VB project. Everything goes fine unless WORD is
already open and did not find a way to signal user to close WORD, if so. I
work under Windows XP Professionnel SP1.
The following code shows houe I Initiate the process.

I have compiled an executable, but as this is supposed to work with other
files and installed at a specific directory, is there a set of directions on
how to put all together so that the directory is created and the files are
installed?

Since the I LOVE YOU virus, Microsoft has add protection that prompts
you if any application tries to send an e-mail "on your behalf".  I
have written a legit application for my business that uses the MAPI
api to send an e-mail  to established customers but I don't have time

My forms are gonig to have a dark to green background and I want my labels
to stand out.
I'm gonig to use white for the colour of the actual labels, but you see a
lot of the professional programs have a subtle drop shadow on the labels to

I know I can use app.path to find out where my program is executing, but how
can I find the name of the program group to which it was installed?
I have been searching AllAPI and Google without any luck. Anyone know how to
do this?

I'm making a basic word processing app and have a textbox at the top
of the form which displays the currently used font, it changes as the
cursor moves around the text in the richtextbox.
I am using richtextbox.selFontName to find the font.

I have seen a few old messages referring to my question but I am still
none the wiser. I have created a vb application which monitors batches
of
messages going in and out of various back office systems and displays

I am using VB6 SP5.
I have an application that displays information on a Picturebox that
management does not want duplicated.  Mainly because the information changes
sometimes hourly.

Hi all..
I've 2 questions here
is there any code out there which allows me to populate a combo box with the
countries in the world, as well as the states related to it.

I'm wanting to write an application which has some of the functionality
of a sound player like WinAmp (but with totally different interface and
I don't need many of the functionalities).  Specifically, I want to be
able to not just play WAV files from disk (PlaySound does that) but ...