VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

   I have a function written in C++ (no MFC, ATL or alike used), which I am
calling from VB. But for possible errors that may occur, I want to raise a
VB error. I tried the following:
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Hello all. Sorry for the previous one. Just pressed the Send button in a
hurry.
Following is the code i have. Seems pretty simple. When Command1 without
file checking is executed - no problem. As soon as i add another piece of

I don't know if this is possible but here goes:
I'm trying to make a calendar program and i want the users to be able
ro right click a day, and a popup menu to appear with user defined
catagories (eg, meetings, out of office, etc.) as taken from a

I usuall, in the gotfocus of a text box , select all the text with :-
   Private Sub txtTest_gotfocus()
       txtTest.SelStart = 0
       txtTest.SelLength = Len(txtTest.text)

I am using a RTB to load an ascii errorLog
that is generated from another program. I chose
to use it over an standard text box because there
is a reasonable chance the standard text would

Can someone please post a code example using the change event with a combo
box in VB6. As the user types in a vendor code, he wants the text area to
display the closest choice from a pre-loaded list.
Thanks in advance.

Has anyone seen a problem where a multiline textbox will no accept input
from all the keys? The textbox will not accept the keys below ASCII 32 and
just puts a pipe char in its place. My application runs fine on all the
other pcs except this one. Maybe a virus?

I am trying to use MoveMemory (API call) to copy data from a byte
array to a UDT (User-Defined Type). My type comprises of a few
elements of type byte, integer and long. Somebody told me something to
watch out for which I can't now remember! Doh!

Could someone please post the site address to download an update for
Visual Basic 6.
Regards Brian

I am still somewhat of a newbie to the visual basic world. I currently
am working on a project to communicate with my cell phone over an
infrared (irda) port. This requires using the winsock library and some
older ircomm protocols. I have managed to get my computer and my phone

Private Function fFileExists(targetDir As String) As Boolean
fFileExists = Not (Dir(targetDir) = "")
End Function
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Running VB6 (SP6) and i'm running into some problems with a project idea of
mine. Namely, i'm trying to print something, because of how complicated it
is, I figured I can just make the form how I want it printed and use
printform, right? Well, there's where the problem is, no ...

I have produced a database using Access and VB.  It works fine on a 98 based
machine but when it runs on an XP based machine, the data that should appear
in a listview only picks up three of the 60 that the SQL should be getting
as it does on the 98 machine.

Hi I have a problem with a DLL function in my demoapi.dll.
I already used others function with success, but with this one i must
pass the argument with a 2 dimensional string.
I have documentation about my dll just for c++ and is the follow:

I am using Random Access file routine to put records to a file, but for some
unknown reason it also places what appears to be a chr(13) code and a space
just before the fieldname is put# to file, apart from second entry which
places an & then a space and then the fieldname and all ...