VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

Hi guys. I'm making a little pong type of game, and i've run into a
little trouble. Basicly its with the 'enemy' paddle 'a.i.'. I got the
other stuff going good, but for this I cant quite seem to figure it
out...

Dear members,
I use a RichTextBox in my app for my HelpForm. The user can search for
maximal three words in my helptext.
I find the helptext with the three words, but I can't select (highlight) the

I'm using the ado recordset GetRows method to copy records from a
recordset into a two-dimensional array e.g.
Dim avarRecords() As Variant
avarRecords = rst.GetRows

I'd like a program I'm working on to have the ability to simply update
itself periodically without having to do the "uninstall then
reinstall" thing.
How can I go about doing that?  I'v seen programs (like Adobe) where

screenshot: http://www.lanssoft.com/images/onlineupdate.gif
source code: http://www.lanssoft.com/download/onlineupdate.zip

I got a new PC with XP home version and I want to move my VB 6 program and
data files from W NT 4 to the new PC.  Using the Jet 4.0 engine in VB
database programs, I had to update the MDAC_typ file on W NT, but is that
necessary for XP?  I don't want to overwrite new files by ...

   I need to know by programation if the monitor is On or Off. Is there a
way to request the status of the monitor (on , power save mode , off).
Thak you

   I must be going round the twist here. I have a simple
basic modual with the following code:
Public Sub CreateDir()
   On Error GoTo MakeErr

I have a problem with VB programs running in a Terminal server Session
or Citrix Metaframe session.
After closing the app they still remain at processes at the task
manager.

I recently moved my VB6 development from a Win2000 system to a WinXP
system. I moved all of my project folders from the old to the new
system.
When I opened my current project, I noticed that one of the forms was

Has enyone encountered a problem with VB6.0 programs having large
dimensions?
I ran a program similar to the following:
Dim A(2100000), mystring as String

I create an Excel object into VB to create a report of my Outlook contacts
I am able to fill, modify the cell.  But If a I do a sort of somes values, Exce
will stay as an active process when I delete the Object.  If I don't run the
"sort", it will close well. Moreover, If I close ...

There must be a way to copy files changed since a certain date [like the old
DOS XCOPY with date]. I'm recursibg through a directory to do a backup of
only recent files. Help appreciated ;-)

Is it possible to draw a horizontal line in a RichTextBox, using VB6.
"googeling" gives me no result. The only answers i found was using the " - "
or " _ " character.
But i' d like to draw a real line.

I am making some icons to put on my command buttons. The icons are 24x24
pixels. Since there are 15 twips per pixel, my comman buttons should fit my
icons when they are 360x360 twips,,,,but they don't. The buttons are too
small. They fit when the they are around 400x400 twips,,,,Why ...