VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

How can I catch which left or right ALt+shift keys are pressed by user?
thanks for any help

Ik like to create an excel sheet with vb code.
I made a little program to explore the 'how and what'
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Dim Db As Database

I have a program that needs to add up employee working times throughout the week. The code is as follows:
    TotalHours(X) = TimeValue(MonHours(X)) + TimeValue(TueHours(X)) + TimeValue(WedHours(X)) + TimeValue(ThuHours(X)) + TimeValue(FriHours(X))
However if TotalHours(X) is > 24 it ...

When i run a vb6 application which talks to a COM dll for receiving event messages, it works fine when I run it from the IDE of VB6.  However when I make the exe and run it as a stand alone application it does not receive any event messages at all
Any body who knows something ...

Has someone installed it?
I have read on internet that there was a very big bug with the listview and
the column reorder. (And I have this bug too).Has someone heard of it or has
someone a workaround for it? Is there a SP6a that will come?

I have an app that uses the CR OCX .... here is the problem:
Tables on the backend are created dynamically.  The app collects the
needed data for the report and passes them as parameters to the
report.  All of that is fine ... the problem is that the report needs

I want to select all text in a multi line text box from a command
butten.
Thank for help
Dave

I got to rewrite a small part of a VB6 program, to make it start a
batchfile instead of opening up a popup. I've searched through some
books about VB, and also Googled a bit, but have not found out how this
is done. Does anybody know how you can start a batchfile from VB6 ?

I posted this message in a VB database newsgroup 5 days ago and have not received any answers.
Since this newsgroup has been very supportive in VB, I am posting it here (with changes) in hopes of
getting an answer.
Jim Y

   I am developing an ocx control in VB6, this has several shapes on it the
solid colours of which I set by using properties. In my test harness I have
a form with the control dropeed on to it. I set the various colours on the
control in my form load event but no colour change ...

I am running VB5 under XP, and from tiem to time VB locks up for a few seconds, and then windows reports an erro has occured, and I lose all my unsaved wrk. Is there a bug fix for this, as I can not find anything on MS-K
Thank
James

I'm trying to extend some of my path functions to work with relative
paths as well as absolute and the easiest way seems to be to create a
single function to convert the paths to absolute.
Using VB5, I am also trying to avoid the use of shlwapi.dll for

I am VB 6.0 Programmer.I want to use a picture for my programm as a
Skin.
have u ever seen PowerDVD or ZoneAlarm Pro?They are a good
examples.can anybody help me how to build such a interface?

Hello to all you guys out there.
My question is: is there a way to put code for registering dll server
directly from my application? So, when I open my app the code for
registering dll automaticly does it's job and my app continues with opening

It's been a while since I wrote a program in VB6.
Is there a way of creating an Access type database in VB6 without
having to use the Microsoft Access program?
I'm using MS Office 2003 and I find that if I create a database using