VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

Do you have or know of a program or script available that runs on my
Windows 98 desktop machine that when I run it goes to my various
websites and downloads certain selected data files and sends them back
to me for backup purposes?

I have a program that can reference a data file in the application path with a
statement like this:
Open App.Path & "\data.dat" For Input As #1
I can't seem to do the same thing with the Help file. This statement works:

I'm trying to make a lotto number checker for myself. I thought it
would be easy enough in the beginning but soon found out it is not
that simple.
I play three fixed set of numbers ...ie

Hi I'm trying to programme a game of hang man.I need to check the format of
the word entered into a textbox to see if  any numbers or spaces have been
entered, along with checking the length of the word.I'm having trouble with
the numbers and spaces bit.Is there another way of ...

Is it possible to start an EXE file as a child of another window? At the
moment, I am starting the EXE, then using FindWindow and SetParent. This may
not always find the right window if there is more than one instance open. I
want to open it and get the handle straight away.

List:
I'm having trouble attaching an already opened database to a data
control.
The context here is I'm trying to populate a data combo with a read only

I have been trying to find some information for reading XML files into
VB6 but I'm somewhat confused by what is possible without getting onto
VB.Net. Basically I have to read some really dumb XML data (ms office
schema, just rows really) into my VB code. There must be a sensible

Ok, its for an assignment, but I am stuck on one little bit. Using VB.NET
but hope someone can help.
I need to write just one event handler for four separate events. They are
all for a MouseEnter event. Is there any way to "see" if other mousenter

I have a Windows Forms listbox, SelectMode property set to
MultiExtended. When I select multiple elements using the CTRL key, all
is well; however, if I use the Shift key to select a range of items,
only the index of the first element in the range is added to the

I have this code that allows you to put a command button and a textbox
on a form. You then put a full FTP path and filename in to the textbox
and add then press the button. Which runs the below code.
The code below allows you to download the file, but is there a way to

Error number 429 - COM object with CLSID
{000209F0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} is either not valid or not
registered.
Intermittent occurance of this error.  Using Word.Global to run word

In a VB.NET application, I have a listbox with SelectionMode property
set to MultiExtended. When I select multiple items using the CTRL key,
all is well; however, when I select a range using the Shift key, the
SelectedItems array only holds the first index in the range, and I

I put a Dir-box on my Form and added Dir1.Path = "f:\temp". This naturally
works fine. Problem is that the Dir-box displays above the folder "temp"
the folder/drive "f\:". By selecting "f:\" the user can view all other
folders on this drive which I don't want.

I am trying to run a shell command and am having trouble.
I want to run Shell("c:\grep\grep.EXE & username.Text & logfile.Text & "

Itried using a = Shell("D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\Office\WINWORD.EXE """ &

After sorting in a ListView the index is bad and the alignment is lost. On
the Internet I found
(www.vbcity.com, Id 62660) that it is already reported on MSDN, but they and
I are unable to