VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

There are some variables in my program that keep having their case changed
by the IDE when I close & reopen it. For example, I have the udt:
Private Type DialCode
   ID As Integer

This might be an easy one for all you wissss out there but for me it's
just another problem for another beginner.
I run a program that displays a value into a picture box (I have to
use a picture box). When I clear the picture box and look for another

 I am trying to write a VB program to detect the Dial Up Networking
window in WinXP. For instance, everytime when i launch my Internet
Explorer, the default MS windows Dial Up Networking will pop up and
start dialling to my ISP.

I use the find function in the Richtextbox object to search through a page
of text and highlight a searched word.
My question is, if the word I am searching for does not exist, HOW DO I TEST
FOR THIS?

I have an app that does SendKeys and people are changing their PC to
Capslocks on all the time.  The Sendkeys code is sending a ID and Password
all are case sensitive and need to be lowercase.  How can I make sure the
text sent is lowercase or check the key state and change it?

I need some help with my game I'm making.  Basically you have a list of
ships (spaceships) in the array Ship().  One of the "sections" (don't know
the proper term for this) is Ship().ConvoyIndex - this variable contains a
number indicating which convoy the ship is a part of.  If it ...

Hi, one of apps uses sub main() as it's startup object
instead of a form. This corrected a weird form-unloading
issue for me. XP seems to have a fit about it. Before the
form ever loads, I get an illegal function call error.

I need to obtain an angle in degrees using the following but its not right.
labela.caption = round(atn((labelb.caption/labelc.caption)* pi / 180, 0))
using the following labelb.caption=200, labelc.caption=220
labela.caption should be around 42 degrees

I'm driving myself crazy trying to figure this one out.  So much so
that I think I'm within walking distance now!
The program is written and compiled in Visual Basic 6 with SP5.  The
OS is Windows XP Professional.

I am trying to build a pair of combo boxes to display and select font and font size for a text box. I can get the fonts to show in
the first combo box, but how do I get the associated font sizes to show in the second combo box?
Like in, oh yes, another text editor.
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Is it possible to play wav, mp3, mid files in visual basic 6.0 ? There
appears to be no keyword for playing any sounds.
Thanks for your help!
Mark

I'm a highly inexperienced VB user and I need help quickly with a
school project (please note that asking for help like this is not
considered cheating or anything), and if anyone can provide with help
or even completed code for this simple operation I'd appreciate it

I've got a VB 6 app that is required to create an excel spreadsheet.
Everything goes fine, until I save the sheet, either using .save or .saveas,
when it hides the workbook.  The file is in the appropriate directory, but
when I open it, I have to click the "Window" menu then ...

On a form I put 25 images. Depending on an action one of the images has to
become visible.
ImageXX.Visible = True
Every action gives me a number corresponding with te image that must get

I need to test the contents of a textbox as it's changed, removing duplicate
comma-delimited entries:
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MyString  = "A,d,b,c,D,S,a,g"