VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

Why is my program ghost?
When I run my program and it exist with the X on the top right corner it
ends but if I use control+alt+delete it is still there on the task manager.
sometimes I find 2 or 3 of the same program. But if I exit the program with

All these years, and I've just now come across this... I can create a
User-Defined Type array up to 64K, but I can only open a file with a record
length of 32767 (integer) or less. Anyone know why?
So there's no nice clean VB way to open the file, is that right? I can't find

Hello. I am trying to clear the text in a window... this window does
NOT belong to my application. I have found its hwnd (using
EnumWindows, EnumChildWindows, etc). Now I'd like to clear the text on
that window. I think I might try to

I recently read an article on the Windows Scripting Host Object Model
(WSHOM) in a back issue of Visual Studios Journal from 2000.  As it gives me
a useful and easy way to access all of the registry instead of just the VB
and VBA registry branch, as GetSettings(...) does;  I can't ...

Slightly OT, however:
How can I search text for a * or any other wildcard character.

I am in search for a browser to see all my visual basic forms without
starting every time visual basic and the project.
Where can i find one ?
Sorry for my English.

What is that error that XP gives me? I think it's a memory leak.
I have made a nice Alt-Tab replacement that also allows minimizing to the
system tray. Works really well. When the program ends, it restores any
windows still in the tray, except I get this error. Everything works as ...

I have a deal with a huge application:
A number of forms, with dynamically created controls on each form, forms can
be resized at run time depending upon the number of controls.
The application works just like any web based application.

Ive written a pretty basic program for work that offers the user a number of
buttons to selct that then open an Excel Template.
The code is basically as shown below, the first section sets the base path
for the Templates and gives the user the option to cahnge should the network

is there a way to place toolbars like in vb6.0 on the left and the right of
my parent form.
ive found some toolbars, but  i can only place them on the top.
thanks Maarten

I have a project within which I need to send an automatically produced
report to a client list.  Can anyone point me to documentation on
implimenting an email sending routine within a VB6 program? Code samples?
Thanks

G'day All,
I'm trying to code a "Data Downloader" to automatically login and
download data from www.Investorweb.com.au using the Internet Transfer
Control.

Is there anyone out there that can help me. I have alot of free time on my
hands with health problems and wanted to stuff around making a Ultima 5
style RPG using Visual Basic 6 + Direct-X 8.0 .... Now I have tried to find
a decent set of tutorials that start fromt he basic of ...

I am writing an application in vb.net. I need the application to give
the user the ability to create a user account on my web site. The
application must pull custom data based on the username and password.
I see all kinds of things that I could start with. Does anybody out

This is a general question.
As input devices, we use a keyboard and a mouse almost exclusively.
I want to know more about different input devices and how to use them, and
how to program with VB 6 using different input devices.