VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

Let's say I have a number (a single) that can range from 0 to 10. I want to
represent this number as a variable color value, that ranges from green,
through yellow, to red.
For this example, we'll say that:

I've got a program that parses text files.  The text files come to me
in Unicode and they contain goofy characters that VB chokes on -
treats them as eof markers.  I have already been through this issue in
another thread and I have received an answer that works (code is

       I have developed an application that is in use by approximately 50
users. However I am having a littler difficulty with two particular users.
The problem is that when the program attempts to write the date and Time to
a field set up to accept date and time it throws up a ...

I am having difficulty in writing a league program for a family member. I
wrote a similar program many years ago in turbo pascal but am at a loss with
vb. I will get there in the end but has anyone done something similar which
is available on shareware or public domain?

I've recently written a VB6 COM wrapper for a third party non-COM DLL
which is included with an installed application.  This wrapper is
working as expected in our staging and development environments.
However, it does not work properly in our production environment.

Hey all-
I have a treeview1 which I am trying to store tag properties for I have
figured out how to due one tag but I need to add 2 more tags for this and
every other node in the tree. I am concerned about the naming process

Hi.  Is there an easy way to upload and download XML files via Web
Services?  It's pretty easy w/ .NET, but I'm not sure how you would do
that w/ VB6.
Thanks for your help.

How do you assign keys to a control? I can only see ways to assign to the
active control, but I want to have all keypress events assigned to that
control.

I have just noticed the weirdest thing on XP using VB6. Whenever a tooltip
appears in my app, the tooltip appears as an application in Task Manager.
Has anyone else noticed this?
BTW, the app must be compiled for this to happen. And it doesn't matter how

Actually, I am facing a problem while comparing string, please help:
In VB, I find that 'AA1' < 'AA12' < 'AA2'
But, can I have any simple function that while compare them, the
result will be changed to 'AA1' < 'AA12' < 'AA2'

I've just about given up on getting the bundled version 4.6 Crystal Reports
to work
with VB on my XP computer. The ActiveX works ok but in the development
environment (of Crystal) I can't access any Access database to fix my

Working through VB.net step by step 2003 book I have a problem that I
can't resolve with my small knowledge of VB. I have been to the mspress
site but no corrections are available.
The exercise is attempting to use Excel to make some calculations giving

This is my first message on the board, and I would be very greatful
for any help! I am currently developing a web-checker application in
VB6, basically I am using (1)Inet to download a file from the net,
from there (2)I want to extract the HTML into my GUI and then be able

I am hoping to develop a VB5 Active X object that will have various
properties, methods and events and will in particular generate
unsolicited events as it will be communicating to an external device via
a comms port. I then intend to use this object in a Delphi 7 project.

Has anyone got any experience with this: loading files in a different thread.
I've tried this approach:
http://www.Planet-Source-Code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asptxtCodeId=24672&lngWId=1
But I found that the main thread still blocks untill the loading is completed.