VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

I'm trying to use the inet control to connect to a secure website
through a proxy which requires a username and password.
The major annoyance is that it works just fine on normal (non-secure)
websites, but HTTPS seems to have problems.

I am using the Package & Deployment wizard to create an installation of a
fairly large VB6 program, which includes several exe files & data modules
(jet).
I have done this successfully in the past, & expected no problems.

i'm having a form with a close button, when you press the button you get a
option to save the form.
but when hou press the close button in the border on the right on the top,
it just closes.

I appear to have lost my setup wizard.  Is there anywhere that I can
download this function (upgrade?) or will I have to re-install the whole of
VB6?
TIA

I want to use Drag And Drop to handle items in a FileListBox. By selecting
an item from the FileListBox I want to Drag it to another FikeKistBox and
Drop it there. The action is a FileCopy.
Now I gave the FileListBox a DragMode Value of 1. Problem is that:

I want to run a power point (show) file from a command_click in VB6.  Looks
like it should be simple but this just doesn't work.
Call Shell (App.Path + "\filename.pps")
Why not?  Direct clicking on the filename from My Computer causes it to run

Is there a way to detect keypresses and/or mouse activity over all the
forms of an application? My boss wants us to add an activity time-out,
which will log the user out of the app, after a certain time limit.
Since this was never considered part of the design, retro-fitting it

Hello, i'm trying to download a text file;
www.float.com.au/download/20040915.txt
The Internet Transfer Control maybe downloading the whole file but only the
first line of the file is being saved?

Is there an easy way in VB to shorten scientific notation to achieve a
controllable length? For example: 1.23456789E-13 to 1.23E-13. Rounding or
truncating will work for me.
If I use the Round() function, it just rounds to zero because it is such a

I'm looking for the name of the kinda button that you see in windoes explorer (and other apps too). For instance, in Windows Explorer (XP),
theres a number of buttons at the top including 'Folders' and 'Search'. If you click on 'Folders' it stays pressed, and if you click on

For some reason I keep getting the error 'Object doesn't support this
property or method' when trying a For Each statement for my
Collection.
Dim li As ListItem

I want to use Drag And Drop to handle items in a FileListBox. By selecting
an item from the FileListBox I want to Drag it to another FikeKistBox and
Drop it there. The action is a FileCopy.
Now I gave the FileListBox a DragMode Value of 1. Problem is that:

I get informations about every process like that:
Dim wmi As Object = GetObject("WinMgmts:{impersonationLevel=Delegate}")
For Each p As Object In wmi.InstancesOf("Win32_Process")
'here i add p to array.

I have copied a Visual Basic program from one PC to another and when
attempting to step through it via Start I am getting prompted with
Automation Errors ??
I managed to find the error code is -2147221004 which refers to

Having this form and code in a project I get "only public user defined type
in public modules etc....." message
* in form
Dim Vars() As evVariant