VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

I've just been playing about with my recently acquired WinXP computer and,
from the looks of it, XP doesn't appear to be as robust as it is made out to
be. For example, I had been led to believe that XP uses real pre-emptive
multitasking, such that the operating system would always ...

Hi i'm having a problem passing an arrays of controls on a form to a
function or sub. I can use this code for any datatype but when i change
'long' to 'label' in the public sub and i call the sub from a mousedown or
keydown event belonging to an  array of labels i get an error ...

What is the difference between sending data in these two instances:
1 - Using an array
 Dim aOutput(0 to 1) As Byte
 Dim Buffer As Variant

VB6 service pack 6
I have a basic program and am using the default VB6 colors. Everything
is ok except if I instal my program on a computer with 256 colors all
my control backcolors change and it looks terrible.

I have a listbox on a form. It is being used to display a list of
music tracks currently being held in a playlist and which will be
played in order. The currently playing song will be highlighted as if
the user had clicked on it. This listbox will be sized so that it will

I develop apps on a Win 2000 machine using VB 5.  Some users of Win XP have
noted that unless they right click the app, and tell it to run in Win2000
compliant mode all they get is a "Critical" sound when the app loads, but
the app never runs -- nor is it in memory.

is there a way to print a frame
i have some picture's and label's
on frame2 is there a way to print out
frame2 with printer.print

I want to write an application where I can monitor everything that is
happening
(like menus opening, text written, sub-windows opened, etc) in an
application

How can I call the connect/disconnect to network share dialog of explorer
form VB ?
Thanks.
Matthias

Details:
I have to do this in tons of applications, but I cannot remember how.
I have a Drive listbox and Dir listbox.
When the user changes the drive, I want the Dir to change to reflect

There's a section in the VB docs about implementing your own container
classes.  Unfortunately, the advice there amounts to nothing more than
writing a wrapper class for the existing Container class.  They also give
away a small amount of detail about how the Container class ...

I would like to create an array of type 'MyFlowData'
which will contain fixed data to be used inside my program.
The data needs have a global scope throughout the application.
Private Type MyFlowData

hi i wrote a loop that displays 24 numbers, however instead of displaying
the down i want them to loop horizontally across the screen , how would i do
that.  When i try changing the currentx and currenty values all teh values
overlap on top of each other

I have an application 'out there' and now need to alter some tables in my
client's Access database.  I can easily add (create) tables, alter tables (add
and remove fields) and drop tables all in code.  However I would also like to
extend the length of an existing text field from 100 ...

I am struggling for long time to display a GIF file on an ASP page. I
have tried to return a GIF file in  few formats
from a webservice.
Webservice returns the images as MemoryStream.GetBuffer(). Its an