VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

I'm implementing a button that shows a popup menu when clicked.  
I had been positioning the menu so it lines up with the bottom
and left edge of the button.  Unfortunately if the button is near
the edge of the screen (usually the bottom) such that the menu

I'm using Visual Basic 5.0 which I know doesn't have the Replace
Function ability. I have a user form with 12 textboxes that can have
multiple lines of data in each textbox, which I then send each boxes
data to it's appropriate DOCVARIABLE in a Word doc. When I open the

I'm quite new to VB and If tackled something that I was hoping you could
help me with. I have the following code:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim MyString As String, i As Long, j As Long

I've written a simple program which uses the Microsoft Tabbed Dialogue
Control. I'd like the first tab to always have the focus when the program is
opened but for some reason it gives the focus to the last tab to be read. Is
there a command I can insert into the form load event ...

I have a program, developed in Quick Basic under DOS, which are quite
complicated and I wish to translate into Visual Basic, since Basic is more
familiar for me than other languages.
The question is how to write Quick Basic code in a Visual Basic program. It

I have a number the is the number of seconds from 1/1/1970.  Is there a
function in VB that will convert it to some thing more readable? some ting
similar to time_t in c++
Thanks

While using VB6, can we set different forecolor for each item(line) in
standard listbox control.
Thanks & Regards,
Faiz

I'm running VB6/SP5 on W98SE, a P2-266 on an AL440LX with 320MB.
Soundcard is a Creative AWE64 ISA.
I want to do an app that includes voice recognition.
So I downloaded the Microsoft Speech SDK, version 5.1.  Installed it,

Need help creating rolover effects. How can I do it?

I'm trying to find out how to use the waveOutOpen function to play a note
using the sine function to calculate the data necessary for the waveOutOpen
function.
I've been to Google and msdn online and found a little. I came close with

I am trying to add a function to our ASP/SQL2000 Intranet.  The
function purpose is to dynamically create a merged document that a
remote user can print out and mail.  I don't want to deal with the
constraints of html, so I'm hoping to provide a Word or RTF document.

I am using Data Report which has contents of 2 pages,
When I use   "rptReport.Show 1, Me"   I can only view a single page for
preview.?
But when I use   "rptReport.PrintReport True, rptRangeFromTo, 1, 2"   I can

Anyone know how to or where to find info regarding obtaining image
information (mainly jpeg)
Thanks.....

When changing the (name) in the properties window the new name does not
take. It comes up with an invalid property value. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I have created a vb dll.  I need this dll to stop MS word from
exiting.  I have been able to get the VB to create a msgbox just
before closing Word.
Can I send a "Cancel" application exit to word?   I need to do this as