VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

Is there any type of wait or sleep type of command? Like, if I have a
ball (shape) on my form, and i wanna move it from left to right, i
could use shape1.left = shape1.left + 1. But that'll go as fast (or as
slow) as the computer thats running it. Is there anyway todo it, where

I have three input boxes. When you put integers in them and click on the
largest button I want it to show the largest number of the three in the
results box. My three input boxes are x,y,z. I don't know how to make it
compare three values. I know I need to put an if then else inside ...

Is there anyway to include a wav into an exe? Much like you can load
an image into a picture box, and not need the image to be there
(seperate from file) when the exe is run. Also, if you can, can
multiple wav's be included in the wav? And will they be playable using

3 main differences between flexgrid control and dbgrid control ??
Please let me know
Thank You

Wat is ActiveX? and Wat different types of Activex components in vb?

I have seen many posts about this problem, and I have also found
myself with this problem, even with the most basic code like this:
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
       Dim wb As Excel.Workbook

Does anyone know what type of control(s) would be best to use when
building a form like that of the Windows Event Viewer, where the right
panel has the list of events, and at the top you can click on the
column header(s) and order by that section?  Would an MSFlexGrid work,

I have discovered that the directory list box in VB does not appear to refresh properly
It does refresh properly when you create a new directory with the 'MkDir' statemen
and after you issue a 'Refresh' command for the directory list box, but it does not appea
to refresh properly ...

I am very confused on this.
I want to use a reource file to store strings I understand how to
retrieve strings by using the numbers in the first column but if I
have 3 or 4 columns how to I refer to the strings in those columns ?

I have a text file that I want to save from my program. But I don't want to
save the empty lines. I want to delete everything after the last character,
Is that possible?
Then when I read the text file i don't want to read empty lines(If the user

Has anyone got a way to display control properties at run-time?  I have
tried the sample given at Edanma's web site
(http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/vb6/com/showpropertypage.shtml) but it
doesn't seem to work.  I either need a fix or another method?  Any

Does VB have a built in way of handling HTML code?
For Example
   My program Downloads HTML source code from any given webpage.
Now what I want to do is scan through the page and put all the <img> Tags

Can anyone tell me how to prevent more than 3 characters being typed
into a text box, bearing in mind I want to keep the cursor in the box
if attempt made to type more than 3 characters.
Also I posted a question earlier relating to the ATN function which

Im very new to VB 6.0 and have only just learned how to navigate my
way round the system.
I thought i had a little project of creating a stop clock sussed,
however i was wrong.

Hello evrybody,
First, I hope you will understand my English because I come from Belgium !

Here is what I want to know if you have the kindess to help me ! :-)