VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

Hello all, I need to be able to detect if there is an active available
Internet connection in my VB6 program.  In my program I'm using the Internet
Transfer Control to transfer some files by HTTP, but as it stands now,
there's no code to detect if there is in fact a network ...

I am getting this error message :-
Run-time error 713
Class not registered
Looking for object with

Using ADO and VB6 I ought to be able to execute the following SQL command
with an .MDB database
SQL = "Alter table BigList Add  sPots Char(50) WITH COMPRESSION NULL"
or something very like it  to create a new field with Unicode Compresion

I want to write a simple script to open a program, minimize its window, and
after a certain amount of time, maximize the window.
I don't really know how to go about doing this...maybe you guys can refer me
to some sites (most of the sites I found talk about more complicated

i've got a text file formatted like so:
. the very fast dog was brown . he liked chasing cats very much . his owner
was called bob . his favourite food was cheese .
i need to carry out a test on each "word". i'm defining "word" as anything

To configure my wireless access point, I just enter it's
address into my browser and the User Interface is a webpage.
I'd like to create an instrument control interface that works
like that.

Hi all, what I want to do is write a function to toggle the enabled field of
all controls within a frame, but what I can't figure out is how does one
iterate through all controls in a frame object?
For example, if I wanted to iterate through all controls in a form, I'd

When I look at the PostData in the BeforNavigate2 event I see only
??????????????????????n.
Am I to believe it is encrypted for SSL?
How do I read and change the data before posting?

I'm trying to create a shell link in Windows (I use Win Server 2003,
but it's the same in Xp, right?)
An run-time error occurs with the following lines:
Public Declare Function fCreateShellLink Lib "VB6STKIT.DLL" (ByVal

I've tried to do this about a dozen ways and now all I want to do is bomb
Microsoft, lol. I've tried what is says in the online help but it gives me
compile errors. I want a 10 element array of strings to be global for a module
of the program. How can I do this?

Hey Folks,
As a student I use a cracked version of Visual Studio 6.
I have created a cool Visual Basic application, which I
would like to distribute over the internet as freeware.

When I drop the calendar control onto a form it immeadeatly closes my VB6
application. I have rebooted and tried with a new project but it closes VB6
everytime?

Is there a simple way to find the parent nodes under a given node.
For example I select Node Test, which is a parent, it has 3 children, and
two of those are also parents, and in turn one of those children is also a
parent.

I am running VB6 under windows XP Professional.. I added the 'Microsoft
Direct Text-To-Speech' component, named it spkSpeak and added the following
code in Form(Load): spkSpeak.Speak "You have selected Microsoft Sam.".
The weird thing is that when I run the program nothing happens.

is there a way to get access to the text-output of another application by a
VB-app?
It is possible to mark and copy this text output.
Thanks in advance for any help!