VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

I need to call a dll that I don't trust too much. It causes gpf's now and
then. How can I make the call to this dll safe, so if it crashes it doesn't
take my app with it?

I use VB6 with SP5 on Windows XP Professional.
Can't exactly remember when it first happened, but my help now has little
squares with a dot in the centre in place of what previously used to be the
"See Also" & "Example" links etc and other areas throughout the help file.

I recently added a module to my app that checks for previous instances and
if so, restores the main form and closes the other instance. Since adding,
VB6 does weird things. My app starts using the Sub Main(). On occasions,
after calling my PreviousApp module, Sub Main() seems to ...

I've been trying to get vb6 to access an Excel workbook with no luck.
On checking MSDN it says to use -
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Set xlApp = New Excel.Application

Who can give me an example how to write a general plugin for Winamp 5 in
Visual Basic 6? Only things I want to do is Play, Stop, Pause, Load Playlist
and Randomize Playlist. For Winamp 3 there were loads of examples, but since
Winamp 5 it seems to be unfindable for me.

I had a problem with a couple of my Visual Basic.Net applications recently and upon looking for a solution have found dozens and dozens of people with the same problem. There is a fix listed below but im not too happy with it and wondered if anyone else knew a different way or ...

I'm using VB6 under Windows 2000 to do a project, and I need to create
a variable number of command buttons.  So as to avoid any arbitrary
limits, I thought to create as many as I needed and subclass them to
label them and get their events.

I am using a hidden Image box that contains an image. I set Stretch to True,
so i can resize the image.
(changing the Width and Heigh)
No i need this RESIZED image for another control (Option button with Style

Why is it I can't get text to Clipboard when the Clipboard has already
contained text?
Situation simulation:
Open IE,

Hi, im not sure if anyone has noticed this before. You create a form with a tabcontrol in it and then select the form by clicking on the title bar, and then the tabcontrol by clicking on the tabs at the top of the control. The mouse sometimes gets stuck within the tabcontrol. If ...

I'm playing with a form that can have as many as 200 picture boxes displayed
on it. the placement of these boxes is determined by the size of the form,
and all works well. The form is sizable so the placement of the pic boxes is
variable. as you can imagine, putting all the ...

I have need to save formatted rich text data to an access database, is such
a thing possible. I have tried various data type, but nothing seems to work
Thanks
Derrick

I want to make a screen capture from windows media player 9, playing a
video. Normaly I just get a black screen. What I have understand I
need to have a routine which is possible to capture from a Directx
screen. I have test some program like HyperSnap which is working, but

How can I prevent the changing of the default printer setting when I select
a printer using the print dialog ??
Greets
John

My vb application runs fine while it is run from VB IDE.
However, when an exe file is executed, FEW of the forms crash when user try
to click on any of the form buttons without firing the event i.e. code
behind the button_click event doesn't executed. Program run fine if mouse is