VB Forum / General 2 / October 2004

I have a flow meter that is connected to a PC via a comms port. I can
communicate with the meter fine using hyperterminal but I want to use
a small visual basic program that I wrote to display the flow rate on
screen.

I'm surprised that the serious bug in the windows/visual basic
save-dialogbox is treated in a quite "relaxed" fashion in the thread below
started by Norman Diamond. To me this bug is completely unacceptable - as
the user unintensionally may overwrite important data in the belief ...

All,
Is there a piece of VB6 code that will take a set of numbers like:
1,2,3,4,7,8,10,11,12,15,17,18,19
and convert it into:

Is it possible in VB to obtain pointer to a variable ( LONG type value )
containg addres of variable of any type?
MWK

I want to display values as results using msflexgrid control.
the values are computed, and for each calc i get several values,
Temperature,Pressure,volume,density,....
So i want to display for each result a new row !

I have an older computer running win98. There is a program I wish
to run that was written in VB6. I have no documentation for it and no
contact info for the author. It runs but not correctly; especially there are
problems with visual refresh and other visual effects. Also it does ...

In my app I have a list of things to download, and it's supposed to go through that list and download the files. Now I can download
individual files just fine, but when it's going through the list, it only downloads the last file... I use a for...next loop to go through
the list, ...

I posted this a few days ago and received exactly zero replies, except
for the wannabe troll who deemed it absolutely necessary to point out
a typo. (Thanks for that, by the way.)
I'm looking for someone who would like to take the challenge of doing

Allright quick question, I have ProgressBar and I'm trying to get it to stay inside one of my panels in my StatusBar. I have this code here
in the form_resize event...
With ProgressBar1
 .Width = StatusBar1.Panels(3).Width - 100

I want to take the information collected from two different tables (I know
all the data should be in the same table...but it's not my database to
change) and put the information from the first query and put it in the first
sheet of the .xls document and put the second query ...

I use databes like this
Dim Db As Database
Dim Rs As Recordset
Set Db = OpenDatabase(App.Path & "\database.mdb")

How can i read the values of enviromental variables? souch as path...
Thanks

I need some code that will reliably get the free disk space on all versions
of Windows and I'm a little bit lost. I've had a look at the
GetFreeDiskSpaceEx API function but I seem to remember reading somewhere
that it only works on FAT32 disks. Is that correct? If so, is there a ...

i'm trying to get a board with relays working under c++, i have a sample
code in visual basic to compose a string that is send to the serial port
but i am confused how to translate it to a c++ string
here is the vb code:

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