VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

I seem to be having a little trouble with my newsgroup messages again. This
time I don't think it has anything to do with the encoding method I am using
(as before) but I can't see my own postings (made in the last few hours) on
the group. Can anybody out there see my two responses ...

I am new to programming but keen to learn;  I was wondering if I should opt
for Dotnet or VB6?
I would appreciate any advice you guys could offer me.
TIA.

I found a nasty bug while testing SetLayeredWindowAttributes to create a
translucent form.
I set the bAlpha parameter to zero to obtain a completely transparent form
but when I used ALT+F4 to close it I obtained a Windows hard reset.

I just read in the SD Times (an old fashioned "paper and ink" newspaper)
that the next version of VB, the fabled "Whidbey", will be released in
the first half of 2005, with the name Visual Basic 2005. Apparently the
.Net will be dropped from Visual Studio altogether.

I need some HELP.  I work for a company that has developed a system for
Financial companies.  This software was originally developed in DBase 4.
The windows system was created by allot of cut & copy for DBase.  You can
imagine the problems I have to deal with daily.  Most of the ...

Experimenting with some different ideas, I came across this problem that I cannot solve.
I have a form on which I print data directly - no label or text box.  Then I thought maybe I do not
want that info on the form.  Assume I place "Money talks" in the first box area (Form1 ...

Hi
Is there a way to find out the three parameters specified in the Local
Area connection Status namely IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default
Gateway using VB6?

I'm using OLEDragDrop on a listbox to add files. Is it possible to tell if a
user is trying to add a folder? I would like to be able to add the entire
contents of a folder OR to just add a few files, but I need to know what the
user is trying to do. Is there anything in the Data ...

I developing an imaging application that allows the user the potential of
having up to 8 MDIChild forms open at the same time.  When using the
WindowList menu to switch between forms the forms behind the current form
can be momentarily seen during the switch causing a flickering ...

  I want to write a program that can communicate with a USB infrared
receiver, can MS COMM OCX do the job? If not, what are the possible
ways of doing it?
Thank you in advance

I asked this sort of question a month or two ago but got no response.  Time
to try again...
I would like to have a form that uses an image that has a transparent
background.  When this image is displayed either on a form alone of in a

1) Does anyone know how to use CreatePopupMenu with icons???  cPopMenu.ocx does not support this from what I can see.
2) Does anyone know how to restore a file in the Recycle Bin in VB6???
3) Is there a way to increase the number of Undo' s allowed in VB6???

How would I go about populating a menu to show Open With >, like you have on
Windows context menus. I want to open a picture file. At the moment I'm
using ShellExecute to open it with the default editor, but would like to
enumerate a list like the one you'd find in a Windows context ...

Does anyone know how to get the correct result for below calculation
in VB?  When I do this on the 'ole calculator, the correct result of
-3.095415 displays.
-3.08 * -0.015415 (Incorrect Result in VB = 0.0474782)

I have the following problem.  I wrote a small VB6 billing application and
most of the clients run it in a single user environment.
This works fine, but one of the clients tried to place the database
(MSAccess) on a server and installed the VB6 app on different