VB Forum / General 2 / June 2004

vb6
I have a command button on a frame.  In my load event, I set the command
button cmd.enabled=false.
but the button is still enabled.  The whacked thing is there are other

I wrote a programme which opens an Excel spreadsheet with the common
dialogue control and runs a few formulas before saving results to an Access
database. It works fine on Windows XP but when you select the Excel file on
any system running Windows 2000 it returns a programme error. ...

I know how to add this for VB6, using InitCommonControls and supplying a
manifest file, but is there a way to do it without a seperate file, ie,
incorporate it into the code somehow?
With best regards, Lindsay.  E-mail: lindsay@home.com

I am using 'LoadPicture' to set an image.   For example,
  Set MyPic = LoadPicture("c:\stuff\images\mypic.bmp")
But what if the end user doesnt have a "c:\stuff\images" folder or a
"mypic.bmp" in there?  What is the reccomended way of including pictures for

  I hope that you can help me wit this one please and apologies if
i'm in the wrong forum! I recently bought a book that contaiend a
CD-ROM of very useful Visual Basic algoritms.
  Now these algoritms are written in visual basic 4 I'm having

Hi all..
  I have a form with a plot drawn on it during runtime. I also have a
Picturebox with the date printed on it. When I save the form using the
Picturesave.image, just the form with the plot on it is saved without

Okay!! I want to copy the entire files in a directory to another
directory.
Heres the code:
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Here's my 'challenge'.
Any insight or help, as always would be much appreciated.
I have a form set up that has 6 or 7 different textboxes for entry of
information.

I designed a data entry screen and my co-worker will be doing the coding.
Does anyone know of a way to print out what the names of the objects on the
form are?  This will be easier for him instead of guessing or trying to
remember all of them.  Thanks.

Does anyone know of a utility that will aid in converting Quick Basic code to Visual Basic code.
I don't expect it would be perfect, but anything that would provide a start on it would be helpful.
Thanks

How do you write a function which returns a reference to an array. I
can only get a function to return a copy of the array itself. I've had
a look at some other threads in this group an the return value of a
function acts like 'by Val' returning the value only (except for

I have set a series of text box objects as an array. I'm using them for
monthly totals. How (preferably in the program) do I describe the caption to
only handle numbers? I get a type mismatch error when I test Label1(intX)>0
if it's blank.

Ok.
I just switched to VB.net, and well, everything seemed find. .NET took
care of buffering, and some nice DirectX features. The code formating
is usless, just a pain to get it way I like it.

calling back to the infinite wisdom of usenet....
My question:
i've got an mdb with some textfields, a datefield (short) and a
currency-field.

I have a control array that is allocated and there are more controls that
can be seen on the screen.  I would like to be able to scroll to these
values and can if I change the top property in every control.  If I set the
scaletop value on the form (thought that might work), but it ...