VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

Is there any round or hexagon or other odd shaped picture box controls
available? I'm trying to get round pictures that can move on a form
and not block out the unused space that a square picture box can. And
acutally, it can be any kind of control that has the picture property.

I have developed an engineering application software using VB6 which I
want
to demo to a potential client.
I plan to put the executable file and all dependent/supporting DLL,

for an infrared camera I want to design a software to show and capture a
video stream. The camera is connected over usb2.0 and i got a VB software
toolkit from the manufacturer of the camera. Unfortunately I can't use a
standard videocapture software because you don't get a standard ...

Gentlemen,
   Is there a way to use an inStr function to test for a double quote?

Gentlemen,
   Is there a way to use an inStr function to test for a double quote?

I have a small app that I want to add extra functionality to but it
involves maths and trig.!!
Without boring you too much it is an aircraft plotting application.
Messages are inputted and those with position data are plotted

Gentlemen,
   Is there a way to use an inStr function to test for a double quote?

I'm stuck with the following:
I have 4 variables (A, B, C, D). Each variable can contain a value between 4
and 30. Now I know how to order them in a particular order (highest first
for example), but that's not what I need. I need a string representing the

I have an application that re-sizes itself during execution (generally
to hide or show part of the window). To set this I re-size the window
to the one size, read off the width and height and then re-size to the
new size and do the same.

i'm trying to convert a word document into pure .txt format - which i've
done. then i need to remove all punctuation except .
at the moment i'm doing a find and replace - finding everything but big
letters, small letters, full stop and space - replacing them with a space.

I wish to run a command line dos program within VB6. So when I call it from
VB6 instead of it loading and running in an external form to my program, I
can get the dos window to appear on my VB6 form.
Ken.

I get a name from a database on the format Lastname + Firstname, but I
want to display it the other way around (firstname + lastname). How
can I do this?
Code:

I am having a big problem with the Common Dialog control being used in
a Windows app developed using VB6 SP6 running on XP and 98.
When trying to print using the common dialog and set the common
dialog's orientation property I have noticed that it doesnt seem to

Dear friends,
My name is Theodoros Tsioupros and I am a university student from
Greece. It is the first time I am using a newsgroup and I am writing
to request your precious help with a simple question about VB 6.0

I've got this program that creates an excel file and saves it out on a
different server.  A SQL job kicks off the program each morning.  In
the beginning the program was failing because the account that the SQL
was running on did not have permission to the particular folder I