VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

I have a main program that has a status bar and a progress bar on a
form.  I get these from an ocx - "Microsoft Windows Common Controls
5".  This ocx is not the most up to date one - there is also
"Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6".  I tried to pass the status bar

Why is this statement in VB false and in SQL Server true?
'***
' vbscript
if ("69330@AB0" < "693300AD7") then

Does anyone know why I would be getting the error "Ambiguous name
detected: Form_Load"?
Private Sub Form_Load()
   '### FILL cboBox AND CREATE CONNECTION TO DB ###

Is there an event triggered when a form is dragged by its titlebar?
I have two forms on screen - the main form is draggable and I need the
secondary form to automatically reposition itself adjacent to the main form
if the main form is relocated.

For some reason, Do loops do not work at all for me.  It keeps telling me,
"Loop without do", when I have  a "DO" in my damn program!!!!!  I am
following book examples exactly and the code still does not work:(  My code
is below.  Can anyone help?

Can someone please explain how to do this problem please.
Write a program that plays a game of tic-tac-toe in which a person
competes with the computer.  The game should be played in a control
array of nine labels.  After the user moves by placing an X in a label,

I have recently picked up a VB6 application that needed some mods. One of
the requirements was performance improvements and I could do with a few
pointers from you good people:
I have used the 'timer' value (i.e. system time) to time the execution of

When you call the VB6 compiler form the commandline, how can you specify where
you want the exe to be placed?  
TIA

I have had a look at the MSDN cd and have found the "getsetting" and
getallsettings" commands to read a reg key but these are reading the wrong part
of the registry.
I need to read  

Is there anyway of displaying a group of words in a different colour?
In the textbox or listbox all the words get changed to a selected
colour. I want to change a group of words in the middle of a sentence.
I've looked at the RichTextBox but can't find a way of getting the

This is probably simple but it has stumped me.  I want to create objects at
runtime for example:
A program that would allow you to draw lines on a form.  For each new line I
would like to create a new line object in an array the same way you would a

as those are the only versions i have.

I posted "Am I wasting my time" on the VB newsgroup. Thanks for your
replies.
I have two questions:
1. If I go with Java, C++, etc., will the outsourcing thing still get

Ok. I've been developing some User Controls & some handy Class Modules to do
things like: System Tray icons, multi-line tooltips and PopupMenu
enhancements. I'm beginning to put together a demo project to show off what
they can do. What do I do now? Is this sort of stuff worth ...

I have a remote server that I need to connect to via TCP/IP.
It is on a router with PPPoE connection. I want to be able to run an
application that will periodically detect the WAN IP address currently
obtained.