VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004

Is it possible to multi-thread in a standard exe VB6 application? I know
that multi-threading can be applied to ActiveX components, but can this also
be applied to the standard exe model?
Thanks

I am trying to run an app I wrote under 98se, (in Design
Mode), which runs fine. I installed W2K on another machine
and installed VB6. When I attempt to run the App I get
a "Run-time error '5': Invalid procedure call or argument".

I am searching for the API to switch my monitor on / off ... :-)
Is there a way to switch a console window (cmd.exe / command.com) to
fullscreen (not maximized) mode and back to "normal" mode ?  (I posted this
some time ago)

What I want to do is convert text values to ascii code values.
I have a text box called txtAdd and a label called lblAdd.
When I input some text into txtAdd, I want the text to be converted to
their equivalent ascii numbers, which are displayed in lblAdd.

I have an image control on top a frame. and few other control on the
same frame.
I want to display an image and few shape objects on top of the image.
everything works fine and shape objects appears on top of the image

Okay, this may be a bit of a newbie question but I could really use some
help.
I want to write a set of routines that will read in the contents of XML
files.  I'll be reading the tag names, attributes and data into other

When running a program I made in VB under Windows XP i'm getting the
following error: ! Compile error. Can't find project or library. (see also
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hspies/2.jpg )
See the code where it stucks: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hspies/1.jpg

How can I acquire an image via a scanner?

Is it possible to detect a users regional settings, in particular -
Currency?
Thanks!
Hellen.

what is the meaning of automation in ole automation?
how it is related to the term in automation we use in day to day life?
why it is specifically called as automation when in software
everything is automated?

I just started programming in Visual Basic.NET about a month ago, so I am
completely oblivious as to which libraries to look in. However, I have good
experience with Java and C. Below are ten extremely simple questions which I
couldn't seem to find the answers to after looking in ...

Just a quick question.  I need to clear nonstandard characters from some
text strings.  They are ASCII 1-31 and 127-255.  It's easy enough to
write a little subroutine to handle this.
Before I do that, however, it seems to me that there is some kind of

I first started using HCW.exe to compile .rtf filew created with MS Word a
couple of weeks ago. I used the file | new
menu then selected New project in the dialog box and everything worked as
expected.

I first started using HCW.exe to compile .rtf filew created with MS Word a
couple of weeks ago. I used the file | new
menu then selected New project in the dialog box and everything worked as
expected.

In VB.NET, the output is a .exe file. Since I am new at VB, I am still only
programming console applications. For a console applications, the only two
ways I know of of executing it are to go to command prompt and type in:
testrun.exe