VB Forum / General 2 / April 2004

Handling file downloading with Randy Birch very nice code
(http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/internet/ftpdofiledownload.htm)
raises a second question:
I my case, the user should not be allowed to change the save destination for

Has anyone had this problem with VB6 under Windows XP ??
A new folder created in Windows Explorer cannot be seen by VB6 when opening
a project.
However, if a folder is created with the icon from within the VB6 open

Am loading records from an Access Database into textboxes on a form.
The first 3 entries are text and the remaining 8 entries are numeric.
I want to round off the numeric digits to 2 decimal places (when they're
being loaded into the textbox) as i'm getting some pretty mad numbers ...

I have reviewed other threads and they seem to be suggesting my
solution below:
xTP.TextContent = xTextContent
tmp1a = Replace(xTextContent, Chr(9), " ")    'horizontal tab

I've a sequence in my code that's like this
DoEvents
Call Sleep(1)
I use this to delay the steps when driving a steppermotor. The thing

Basically I have a problem with registering to my quiz system. I had
borrowed some code from an existing program but I just do not know why
it doesn't work.
If (txtUsername = "" Or txtPassword = "") Or (txtFirstName = "" Or

Can somebody help me, I'm a newbie to VB6.
I developed an app that's too large, for
monitors that are set to 600x800.  
To solve this problem I figured I could simply add scrollbars.  My program

createing a setup (using Installshield f. Windows Installer) with the new
Visual Studio 6.0 SP6 Merge Modules (MSM):
I get an error message during the installation stating that windows file
protection restores files (comcat.dll, mfc42.dll, ...) because of setup is

I´m trying to make a connection between vb and sql but I can´t see the
database, I already introduced SQL SERVER on the ODBC so I don´t know
what to do. PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this. I am receiving multiple
lines of text using the onComm event with the MsComm control and was
wondering how to extract specific words or number strings from certain lines
and save them in separate text boxes on my form? Let's say for ...

Has anyone experienced problems installing a VB5 app, developed on an
XP-Home platform, onto a Win'98 system?
I have a user who says he installed it and immediately
- Internet explorer locks up when attempting to access anything other than

I want to use the microphone jack on the sound card to read in drum
beats.  how do I go about starting this project, or and sound input
tutorials.  have programmed in past but and multimedia inputs.
Thanks

Is there a central resourse where I can find out details about components
that come with VB6.
If I look at all the available references and components, there are many
that I don't know about and on the ones that I do know about, have I got the

I need to use Find within a column, then work on the entire row of the found
cell. "Find" returns a Range object consisting of a single cell. How can I
either extend the range to be the entire row, or select the row of the found
cell?

Is there a way that I can change the default font in VB6 so I don't have to
constantly change the font of each new control that I add to my project?