VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

I'm hoping that someone is familiar enough w/SocketWrench 4 to shed some
light on this issue.
I am attempting to read a web page using SocketWrench 4. I make a
non-blocking call to do so. All works well if I set a breakpoint at the

I have two forms, one with 20 frames (and objects inside of it) and
one, my main form, with only a button.
What I need: when user press the button, an entire frame (and all
objects inside) from the other form is copied to my main form. If user

i would like to disable right clicking while my app is running, but no
one seems to have an answer for that. At least not that I can find.
So instead I was wondering if anyone knows how to set focus back to my
app if it is lost. I can have a timer which sets focus to a form or a

I have a DataGrid control in my form (with a Ado). Could you please tell me
if there is any function so that I can get the values of a record at a
cursor location in this DataGrid.
Thank you

I am looking over some older VB6 COM+ code, which is being updated.
Some classes are being added and I was wondering about existing classes.
Is there a good reason I should get rid of my "Global" declarations and
replace them with "Private/Public"? I have heard of the style change,

I am trying to write a VB6 app that opens the Internet Explorer.  I have
copied several examples but keep getting the same error when trying to
execute the CreateObject command:
   Run-time error '13': Type mismatch

Can someone point me in the right direction?  
I want to develop a simple language application in visual basic.
I want to have a table of Chinese words and when the user
moves the mouse over the word, a recorded voice pronounces the word.

How do I go about finding the region in which a form is drawn if I only have
handle?

Hi.  I keep getting this error msg.  Maybe someone knows what to do.
I recently rebuilt a workstation that has a legacy VB6 app that
communicates w/ dBase III+ databases.  I noticed that it wasn't picking
up the data from the database.   Also, whenever I add a data control to

I thank those who replied to my last post, and have tried the keypress
event, which works fine as long as there is no webbrower on the page.
My reason for needing this information is that I have a lot of information
that will be available from my website (Paysite), if people are ...

Question:
How can i write code to get info about the system?
For example, in VB6, you can go to Help / About MS Visual Basic / System
Info, and get a window showing a system summary with things like

I need to have a dropdownlist with more columns in a datagrid, (like in
MS-Access), how is it possible to do that in VB6.
Some solutions?
TIA

My program works pretty well for about 1.5 month but after that it stopped with msg “Overflow error, error code 6”. Some idea how can I locate, where in the code is it happen?
I have tried to trap the problem by putting error handlers more or lees anywhere but it doesn’t help.
thx

On our MDIForm, the menu clicks seem to hang now and then.  It occurs more
often with the use of XP.  Has anyone else had this experience?

What type of variable does the following code need ? (VB6-SP6)
--- quote ---
bytList1Index = Me.List1.ListIndex
intList2Index = CInt(Me.List2.ListIndex)