VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004

Some weeks ago I asked here for tools to show a 3d surface plot in my
program that can be updated several times per second. I was told about
TeeChart and ChartFX. I downloaded the trial version of TeeChart for Visual
Basic and used it successfully.

    In vb, how can I change the date of creation (or modification) of a
file?
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Raymond H.

Is using the MScomm control the best way to do serial comm?  I wrote a
small utility that acts as a terminal program, displaying received
data in a textbox and allowing typed data to be transmitted out.
The problem is that the program seems to be overwhelmed when receiving

Is it possible to use an access .mdb database file as a database?
If so then how do I connect to it? (and make a sample query)
I know you can add something in controlpanel>systemsettings > ODBC
but I haven't got a clue what to do next.....

VB6 - if one programmer has a form open, the other programmer can go in and
make changes on his pc.  Whoever saves first overwrites the changes the
other programmer did.  I can't find anything in the editor setup to lock out
subsequent saves.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have this peace of code, that will show a file's icons in two picture
boxes. But what I need, is to show a file's icons by only giving the
extension, instead of giving the file's path. This way I can retreive a file
type's icons without having this file physically on my disk

This probably sounds like a dumb question but I have been trying to get
Microsoft to answer this for a year now with no response. I can not find any
good information on this.
I write software using VB6 and many people use my programs. Should I

I've got a scheduled task that I'd like to only run when the computer
is locked- i.e. the user or a screensaver has locked the computer.
Does anybody know how to tell if the PC is in this state? I'm sure
there's a registry value or something I can look at.

I have a masked edit box which has a value of "8/30/2004", and when i
programically set the value to mskedbox1=date, the vb blows up with an
invalid property value error. any ideas?  It works ok if i set
mskedbox1="08/30/2004", but I can't seem to get the date value into the box.

There was this program once called Desktop Architect. Amongst other things,
it changed the text on the desktop icons. How could this be accomplished?
It's not the effect I need to know, but how to get it on the desktop. The
only solution I could think of was to create a new ...

Okay, what am I doing wrong here?
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From oprecs.bas module:
Public tapeRec As New HB_Recordset

I would like to have users read a pdf manual in my vb program. They should
select text parts and then push a button so that they can save the important
parts of a pdf file (text) into a database (wich should be done through a
sort of copy/paste command).

To get an excel file in my hard disk, I have to specify the exact location
where the file is stored.
For example, to get "InputFile.xls"  I need to say
Set wkbObj = GetObject("C:\My

Can someone explain to me how to draw something simple like a
line that will cycle through the entire 256 color palette?
I'm not getting how to display colors from 0 to 255.
Is it something like:

I need to create a log file for my app.
I used to open a file at the start of the program, and close'd it when
program end's.
In between I print some comment to the log file on every button click