VB Forum / General 2 / July 2004

I know this must be very simple, but I've trieds lots of things and
had no luck.  I have a sheet with a macro in {Sheet4(manual_check)} is
what it's called, and need to call a routine called Running, or click
a button on that sheet called RunIt.  I have declared both as public

How can I change the default "save to" folder when saving files in VB?

How do you open a specific topic of an HTML Help file from a VB program?  I
have written .hlp style helpfiles before but am new to writing .chm HTMLHelp
files.
If you wrote the old style .hlp files you could assign a topic ID to each

Is there somewhere I can download just one or two header files, ie: The two main
ones Under-> Windows.h
Problems:
1) searched and searched but no can find unless I down load some SDK that's

I wrote A program that can have multyple datafiles (like Excel, word,...).
Now I want to expand the contect Menu New (right click on an empty space in
the explorer or desktop);
I can Make a default file in the template dir but what do I need to set in

I'm looking for a plain and simple control for defining custom/dynamic menus at
runtime. I'm not needing any thrills like icons, background colors/images etc.,
just a simple, easy to program, menu control.
I've already looked at several places, but all the ones that I did found were

Maybe someone can help me with this...
I have a form with, let's say, 10 text boxes on it.
The user enters numeric values into each box and the TOTAL box at the
bottom shows the total.

I thought the ADO memory leak in VB6 was fixed in SP6. I am still
getting memory leaks using ADO in an activeX dll. Is there any solution
to this?
Eric

How many ports can Mscomm handle. Is there a limitation to the number of
ports? If I have a virtual port, say number 255, can Mscomm handle it?

I neeed to select a directory in my program. How can i do that.
I work with a commondialog and I use for a filename
   .ExportFile.ShowOpen
or

I want to be able to dblclick on a combobox and pop up another
form. The combobox is in dropdown mode. By default, dbl clicking
on the combobox just selects the text. I need to override that. How
do I do that?

I have a function that accepts as one of its parameters, a string
variable.  The string variable is a connection string (which as you
can imagine, connection strings can be very long).  Anyhow, the
connection string is over 300 chars long but get truncated at about

I am trying to write a program that can recognize signals sent from
remote control and received from a USB IrDA receiver. Is it possible
to use MSCOMM control to accomplish this (especially the IrDA receiver
is using USB instead of serial port)? Sample code is appreciated (even

   Can one use the 'Copy' and 'Paste' command in vb with the name file in
the Clipbord that come from the Explorer of Windows?
Raymond H.

I'm totally familiar with VB5 but am considering moving to VB6 soon.
However, I am a little apprehensive as to what difficulties, if any, are
ahead.
To those that have progressed..