VB Forum / General 2 / October 2004

I have a form with some picture boxes as buttons. I'm setting the picture
property to a gif file for "normal", and to a different gif for the
"pressed" state. This works fine. I get into trouble with the fact that the
gif files have a transperent region in the middle (the button ...

I'm baffled. I've written VB6 code that reads a .bmp file in binary and
uses that data for +/- 90 deg rotations. I wrote it assuming it would
run in 24-bit colour mode. It works fine.
I was greatly surprised to find that it also works when I set 16-bit

when iam running a process called convert(user-defined)in my  application
which is to convert data from excel sheet to sql server table it's giving me
error that "runtime error 2147417851(800010105)
Automation error, server threws an exception". this error is coming only to

My problem is probably easy to solve
and though I was reading "Help Guide" I didn't understand a thing.
So,
I add a scrollbar to a frame on a form,

hey man thanks for the code except i am getting a error at this line with
the 1 by it
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim strTMP As String ' declare the variable to hold the text

Hi grp
Can someone please tell me what i've missed in this. I get runtime error 380
"invalid property value".
STX,C,cln and so on are public as byte.

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to create mouse icons with
Adobe Illustrator 10?  Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Morning,
I'm looking for a way to run a very large list (1M+) of words and
check which ones are 'real' words. I've been trying to do it this way
but I keep getting a Range Overflow error.

how can i send a form feed to a printer ?
The printer is tecket type and needs a form feed to cut the paper.
Thanks in advance
Erwin

With the risk of being accused of multi-posting I would like to draw the
attention to a serious visual basic/windows issue discussed in the
microsoft.public.vb.bugs newsgroup. As pointed out below by Norman Diamond
the bug may result in loss of data when saving files with the ...

CDate("30-Dec-1899") Should return a 30-Dec-1899 rather than 12:00:00,
because both have the same value as a Date and that is Zero.
Bikramjeet

Dear group,
Goodmorning. I'm new to VB, so please bear with me :)
I have written a small app with a three button form. Each button imports a
table from an Access Database to a Foxpro Database. It works pretty cool.

How to use MSflexgrid to display a computed output values ?
In my case the problem is how to display results of each computation.
for example:
Labels     L1   L2    L3    L4   L5    L6    L7

Can anyone tell me how to get the height of the used area in a RTF or
Picturebox?
So: Someone wrote something in an RTF-box, and I want to know how many twips
the height is.

I have just loaded Visual Basic.Net.
I find the interfact colours very drab, especially compared to Office 2003.
How do I change the interface colours (currently greys & white)
Ta Carlo