VB Forum / General 2 / March 2004

I have a short program I wrote that displays pictures as thumbnails and
 when you click on a thumbnail it displays the full sized image.
Pretty simple right?  Rather than create the thumbnails every time the
application runs I would like to store the individual thumbnails in a

I downloaded a code example for Planet Soiurce Code and when I try to open
the project file I keep getting path errors. In some languages you can go in
and change the project paths, is there a way to do this in VB 6?
Peter

This one is really bugging me.
I have had to reinstall windows due to a hard drive crash.
After re installing Windows XP and Vis studio 6, my vb projects have gone
crazy, let me explain.

Is there anything I can do (in VB 5) to keep an application "on top"?
It does not, necessarily, have to keep the "focus" but I want it to stay on
top of any other app that is running.
Thanks,

 I understand that under certain conditions, using a Single or Double VB
type to store very large integers can result in a loss of precision and that
unexpected results can sometimes occur.
 My question is this:  If an unexpected rounding error occurs while

I'v wrote a sub Procedure  that call itself.after running and hangging
my computer(!) i realized that it's the result of recursion.
Is there any way to disable this?
Thanx

I'm populating a msflexgrid with records where 2 of the 4 columns are
boolean, therefore I'm displaying a checkbox in these two columns. The
code I'm using to determine which bitmap to use is:
Set .CellPicture = LoadPicture(IIf(rst!Prune, CHECKED_PIC,

I am wondering if there is any way to put text of varying sizes into a
text box.  If not, how can I have a display that can have fonts of
different sizes?
Thanks,

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

I have got a vb6-application that prints some text and graphics to a
printer. I now want to have an opportunity to send the same text and
graphics in a mail by attaching a pdf-file which contain this.
Can anyone tell me a simple way to create and write to pdf files from vb6

How do I do the equivalent of
#define ABC 123
in VB?
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I am trying to write a very simple program to read in from an excel
spreedsheet and create controls at runtime so the user may change the
spreedsheet if necessary. Here is what I have so far.
Private Sub Command2_Click()

probably a simple problem but i have no clue.
i would like to make an array of Images of arbitrary size.
what doesnt work is:
Dim Pic As Image

I'm writing code for a client.  Part of the code is supposed to display, and
allow for the editing of very many transactions.  The transactions are
stored in a database.  The database sorts transactions by clients.  Only
transactions of one client will be shown at once.

I have a form full of components. I want to make it so each component
can have any property modified, but I don't want to individualy create
the code for this. Is there a way to use a string to specificy the
component and property to be changed?