VB Forum / General 2 / January 2004

I guess this actually has more to do with security on Windows XP than
programming, but here goes…
With all of our in-house written programs, I have written them to be
installed such that when a user dbl-clicks an icon on his desktop, he

How does one, using code, click a toolbar button on the parent form? All froms are modal.
Here's what I have:
...
  frmBCRUpdate.tblBCR.Buttons(7).Value = tbrPressed

I never seem to run out of problems. I have a piece of sporting equipment
that connects to the pc via serial port. The following code works well,
except that the first four bytes are missing, any ideas?
   Com.PortOpen = True

I am trying to compute the differnece between two dwords in visual basic and
keep getting the wrong value being computed.  I have the following structure
defind:
Public Type HighLowQuote

I have a VB application with 2 forms.  In formA I add information to a
textbox Text1.  FormA has code in its Load event.
FormA has also a button 'Open FormB'. On FormB has a textbox Text2. In
Text2 I can enter a new value. I want to reproduce this value on

Using VB6, i am trying to get the module filename from the cursor positioned
on any windows, with the following code (modified from Article ID: Q112649
in MSDN LIBRARY for Visual Studio 6.0A)
Call GetCursorPos(pt32)                  ' Get cursor position

When I attempt to us the Visual Basic common dialog custom control I
get the following error Message:
License information for this component not found. You do not have an
appropriate license to use this functionality in the design

I'm trying to figure out how to do treeviews and I'm having a problem.
Here's my code:
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim NodeItem As Node, LoopI As Integer, ParentStar As String,

I have made an array in a function in a Class now I need to get to that
Array from an other function in an other Class, How do I do that?
The Array has no fixed size as it is dependent on how much a user has put in
a txt file.

I am trying to compute the differnece between two dwords in visual basic and
keep getting the wrong value being computed.  I have the following structure
defind:
Public Type HighLowQuote

Does VB 6.0 come packaged with:
Data Controls (e.g. Data Grid) that can be bound to a database query.
Control that supports report formatting and printing (with print preview).
Control that supports display and manipulation (e.g. zoom in/out) of image

I have a project in vb6.
When I create an package with cab files, sometimes the only thing
that gets installed is the "st6unst.log".
This happens on most M$ os's win 98, xp, 2000

I wrote an application in VB6 SP5 that connects to an Access 97 database.  I am using ADO 2.7 SP1.  The program has been running fine for over a year.  It was installed on a Windows XP computer and now the application cannot connect to the database anymore.
I read that this means ...

Common dialog boxes are broken in VB6SP5.
The following trivial example consists of Form1.frm and Project1.vbp.
A common dialog box is opened three times.
Each time, .CancelError is set true.

Dim conn, rs, conString, SQL
  Set conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
  Set rs = CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet")
  conString = "mydb"