VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004

Is there anyway whatsoever to change individual tab caption colors? For
example, setting random tabs a different color than the others.

I made a small programm in VB6 and VisualBasic.Net
After building the program it seems to be impossible to change the
programm's icon.
What can I do to make it possible to insert a home made icon?

I have been working on a vb6 program for a month now, and am near
completion.  I got online and downloaded a packaging program called "Inno
setup compiler" that lets me package my program for dist. just like VB's
"Package and deployment wizard".  I did this last night, and ...

You've probably seen this one hundreds of times but I need some help
with calling a function in a DLL from within VB6.
The problem I'm having is with one of the parameters is a VOID * which
is a total pain in the neck... And another problem is I cannot change

I have a large form that I have recently upgraded from VB6.  The form
contains a number of "input areas" that are identical and all but the
first of these are hidden initially.  There are 21 in total and so because
of the screen resolution constraints the form autoscrolls.  When ...

I have a file that was generated on a customers computer which is not
using the Windows default text encoding but uses Japanese(Shift-JIS)
encoding.
If I open the file in notepad the data looks normal but my application

I have a textbox with a number in it and it is connected to a vertical
scrollbar.
It works except when I press the UP arrow, the value in the textbox
decreases. When I press the DOWN arrow, the value increases.

Probably not the first time this one is asked in this group...
The standard filelistbox does what it says, it lists files.
But as all windows based dialogs offer file details etc. I think it can't be
impossible to get some extended filelistbox that does the job.

I'm a VB beginner.  If someone could help me, I would greately appreciate
it.
What I want is to temporally supress keyboard events (e.g., KeyDown).
For example, I have a program that shows a picture on the screen for 3

How can I get a label to show the count as it runs.
I can with the print command.
Private Sub Command1_Click()
For i = 1 To 10000

is there a way, to make collumns in a listbox, or is there an other box that
already exists of more collumns?
thanks
Maarten

I have the following code to print the contents of an RTB:
With Form1.RTB
.SelStart = 0
.SelLength = Len(Form1.RTB.Text)

I'm pulling my hair out here over this one...
The following line of code:
Msgbox Dir("c:\test\", vbDirectory)
Is returning the names of files in the directory instead of other directories.

Is anyone aware of any problems with using Visual SourceSafe or any
reason why not to use it? I currently use it with my VB code but have
a person saying that Microsoft is not using it themselves because of
problems.

I have a dll which gives me some information about the harddisk I use the
dll like this:
Public Declare Function GetSerialNumber Lib "DiskSerial.dll" (ByVal nDrive
As Integer, ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long