VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

I am having a problem with the following code:
nReturn = FIUAcquireDevice(lhDC, FIU_PORT_USB, 0&, 0)
This returns the value 20005
(Public Const FIU_ERROR_ENCRYPTION_OFF     As Long = &H20005)

Public Function cigma3numbers(num1 As Double, num2 As
Double, num3 As Double) As Double
  Dim schum As Double
  cigma3numbers = True

I have a variable 't' with the value which looks like "2700 - 2704"
where the numbers keep changing. I want to split this string in the
variable 't' to two different strings, say t1 and t2, where t1 gets
assigned to the first number, i.e, 2700, and t2 gets the second number

For my application i have a file (4 Kb) with two fields and 170 records
(text file = tab separated file)
What is the fastest way to read this file and find a specific record?
Now it's a separate file, can I create a resource file from this file with

I'm using VB6 and Windows XP. For an user on my computer (my 3 year old
daughter) I wrote a program in VB. For reasons of security the program
automaticly starts as she logs in on her user-account.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to automaticly log off at the moment the

I wanted to try using the timeSetEvent api to make a timed event occur
every 5-8ms or so, so the built in timer wasnt good enough. Anyway, I
made a test app to mess around with it, and in the IDE it works fine,
but once its compiled it crashes when the timer expires. Heres the

Hiii Gurus ...
I am executing a stored procedure(SP) which takes three input parameters
through VB6.
SP will return a recordset and in the VB program, I use COMMAND object to

Suppose I have the name of a folder on my c: or d: drive.  Can I find
out the name of a file that it contains?  If so, how?  Can I find out
the name of a subfolder too?
Thanks,

I am trying to color every even and odd row in the listview as items are
added from my treeview. I am using the following code which doesnt work but
it doesnt return any errors either.
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Did a google search, trying everything I can find, still not working....
I am using sql server 2000.  I do an addnew to a table with an Identity
column.  I can't seem to get the column ID back.  Here is my code...
   s = "select * from <table>"

hi,
i'm working with VB6 and Oracle and keep getting a "Multiple-step OLE
DB operation generated errors Oracle" error trying to access a field
in Oracle of type LONG, here is the loop i'm using:

Does anyone know of a way within VB to analyze
an instantiated object and extract a list of all
it available properties and methods?
This would be extremely helpful with poorly

This problem is driving me insane.  I create even the
sympliest project and the behavior occur.  I create a MDI
Project with a toolbar button on the MDIMain that when
you press a button it show a child form(Easy).  I then