VB Forum / General 2 / October 2004

As the fairly explanatory subject indicates, I have a textbox that
will contain a document. This document changes from time to time in my
development system. It is a simple text file with information that I
update periodically.

Could anyone tell me if there is a command which will recongnise a simple
mouse click anywhere on the screen, I can do it ok for a command box etc etc
but would like to be able to simply click a mouse button from anywhere on
the screen.

i am MCA 2 year student now i got a project through my friend in that
project using VB i meet a problem that is i need to find the total
amount of downloads done by a user through internet.  For example if a
user downloading 5MB of files through internet i want to find out it.

How does this line of code work? I saw it in a sample online, but could find
no "0" to go to. Does it have some kind of "default" meaning/effect?
On Error GoTo 0

Moving from a text box to a combobox where the text box validate sub
sets the text box enable to false the combobox "lights up" indicating
it has focus, but the gotfocus does not fire and when I tab out of the
combobox it's validate is not performed.  Also if I back tab in the

Hi When I compile my program on my XP Professional computer and copy
the program to cd, the program installes and runs fine on XP computers
but wont run on a Windows 98 computer.
Is there a trick to doing this? as many of our customers still use 98.

Have created small programme to compact a database:
   Dim je As New JRO.JetEngine
   ' Compacts database Data.Mdb to Data2.mdb.
   je.CompactDatabase "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & "Data

I have written an Active X DLL for my application all the required
components are included in the installer it is in fact quite a simple app
that captures data from the RS232 port and shares it with other apps.
When I included it with my app in a windows installer package I get an ...

I would like to program the Enter or Return key to act as the tab does
in text boxes. When I capture a keypress 13 I give the focus to the
next text box but this method skips the validation, implying that I
must validate "manually" or invoke the validate function. before

Is this possible? I have a simple database in mind, right now it is being
done in an Excel spreadsheet. Can I code the clients in VB 6.0 and the
server database in VB 6.0 as well or do I need SQL server for the back end?
I have never coded in VB 6.0.

If i create a project in the vb with some screen resolution when i run
that project in another computer with different screen resoultion then
it runs badly that is the button and the positions of the controls are
changed.

I am trying to get some ideas on some mathmatical equations on how to find a
trend from what seems as random sell/theft actions?
It is for a software app I want to do for school that involves the
following:

How do I install my VB6 program onto a file server such that everyone can
run that single copy?  Is there a problem with it not installing the
packaged files on each individual PC?
Thanks!

How can I get one program to finish executing before a second program
begins? For example, I would like to execute Norton Disk Doctor from VB, and
then when that finishes I would like Speed Disk to run. Is there a way to
know when a program finishes executing?

I have a sub that I am using and when ever I call it, I get a ByRef Argument mismatch error. I think i've figured out what's wrong, but not
too sure how to fix it. Here's an example of what i'm trying todo.. I got a bat file, and a sub in it something like
Public Sub ...