VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

I am truying to learn VB6, and built a simple GUI with a
main window, and a second window to be launched after
selecting from the set of option buttons. (2 buttons).
Q1) When I start my app, the first option is always selected

Dear Members,
Has anyone used the Vector Draw (www.vdraw.com) Component in Visual
Basic. I need to create an application to be able to draw the plan
view of a building. Any help in this regard would be highly

I am pretty much a beginner in terms of knowing Visual Basic, but I am
looking for a book to teach myself more.  I already have 'Visual Basic for
Dummies' which was a great beginner's book, but would like to find something
with more depth.  I do not have much background in ...

I get confused about how to use InStr and Mid, Left and Right, and how
to loop through text with them.  I have a large block of text, where I
want to insert repetitive text markers at certain points, say at the
beginning and end of a paragraph, and immediately before an opening

I am OK with VB6 language, can not understand VC or much else unless is
simply explained.
What i am trying to do is record the sound received from my Hauppauge WinTV
USB2 device to a file. I need to start recording to the WAV file and at a

I have looked and looked and I can't find how you place the cursor
(selection point) at the top left corner (the very beginning character) of
the active page you are on - not the start of the whole document, which is 9
pages long!  I want the very first spot on the page I am working ...

I'm finding that the link to download a patch file at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837910 is broken.  
Microsoft of course doesn't have any easy way to contact them regarding such
matters, as far as I could tell.  Does anyone know where a copy of the ...

When I set a custom background color on the ssTab control in VB6, it colors
the panel, but not the tabs themselves.  How can I get the control to color
everything the same color?
And I can't put a picture on the tabs of that color because I'm labeling

I need a good installer, preferably one that is free for package and
deployment of my visual basic 6 application.
I have visual studio.
I think there is something that comes with it but i would like to know if

Executable files (.EXE, .DLL, .OCX) can contain version number details of
form ##.##.##.##.  Visual basic 6 IDE/Compiler only allows you to set the
1st, 2nd and 4th value.  The 3rd value is always 0.
I understand it is possible to manually overwrite these values once the

I have written a program in vb6 that can send and receive emails but how can
i store them?
Benny

Is there a limit to the number of characters/lines of text that can be
displayed in a textbox control, and if so is there an alternative way to
display a large amount of text in VB?

When I attempt to copy the source code from an Environment Canada
website (see code below), using the internet transfer control, to
check for weather warnings only 15 of the total 255 lines are written
to file.  Why might this be?

Hi, I'm trying to find out if it's possible to gain access to the contacts in
Microsoft Outlook. The reason being I'd like to share my contacts between my
three machines and do not want to go thru the expense of Exchange Server or any
other proprietory solution. If anyone could ...

I've been away from the game for a while but I'm sure this is
simple...
I have a table with the following fields:
BillerId, TransDate, TransType, Amount