VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004

please be gentle im a real beginner at vb6
howw do i show something on the screen without it being in a box, for
example some text with a transparent background so you can see whats behind
it

I am trying to make a bot for this game.
http://www.thegamespage.com/downloads/games/hurdler_installer.exe
I can get it working half way. Sometimes the keys don't send and stuff.
And

Happy birthday Mike and  thanks for your help here.
Regards

I have a form with no border. This form will show when the prog starts and
when the user clicks a button the form will hide but not unload. under
various conditions I want this form to be shown in a VBModal state or not
show at all. No problem with this. Only thing is, there are ...

I am interfacing with the FedEx shipping manager.  Does anyone here have
experience with PNG files??  The labels come down in PNG format.  I need to
be able to print them.  I was thinking I could convert them to gif of jpg,
but I haven't had much luck.

Problem:
I have created a new UI for an old project I have.  It is now consisting of
one MDI form and many child forms "melting" into a seemless UI in a similar
manor as a framed web page would do.  And it actually looks fantastic!  The

So, I have a window device context with an image in the window and I have a
PictureBox in a form window.
I try (over a rectangular range of x and y):
   pixelColor = GetPixel(WindowDC, x, y)

I´m have a strange problem with an application I wrote a while ago in
VB4. The problem is that I´m trying to use it on a client machine
which has 4 Gig. memory. When I start the application it gives an
error: Out of memory. But when I decrease the memory to 1 Gig. it

Not so long ago, Mike Williams had helped me and another with sprite drawing
and animation. Both sample programs have helped me understand how to draw
lots of sprites without using too many PictureBoxes.
But now I need to know something else: Collision detection!

I've been given the task of porting some VB6 code to VB.NET  I've run
the code through Visual Studio's code converter and I'm trying to tie
up the loose ends.
Specifically, I have code that does this...

I'm having some problems with the datagrid (SP6) and am wondering if any one
knows if there is a free/cheap download I can use as a replacement?
I need to be able to force a database update from another event, i.e. if the
user changes a value, then clicks a button, I need to be able ...

Just wonder if its possibly, or better yet, if someone else already did it.
i want to make a control that is basically a text box, with a label on the
left of it.  Im sure im not the only who finds it to be a pain, when your
making a form with a lot of text boxes..

at the moment i've git this code and it works fine
Private Sub Command2_Click()
Dim clmX As ColumnHeader
Set clmX = ListView1.ColumnHeaders. _

seems certain user initiated events cause 'default' or 'definately
unasked for' Beeps in runtime in vb. (These are same as you would get
if you included 'Beep' in your code, but NOT initiated by code). It
happens whenever the user presses 'return' to enter text from a

I'm using XP and have noticed something odd. The Applications tab shows a
different list to the Taskbar. Reason I ask is: I was making my own task
list using:
If GetWindow(WindowHandle,GW_OWNER) = 0 Then