VB Forum / General 2 / October 2004

I need some assistance opening files using
the CommonDialog
(1) How can I tell if a file exists in my current
directory  (Do I need to open it and check for

I'm currently developing a radio-sation software. I want to add MP3
playback features. It is writen in Visual Basic. I've found that I can
use libMAD and/or mpg321 or Directx. Has anyone experience at
reproducing MP3?

I have the need to monitor port 6881 on my computer, and would like to read
teh traffic coming in over it, and then write it to a text file.
Can someone point me in the right direction on where to start.
I am using VB6

Can't find any API code for this anywhere.
Is there a way to hide the selection in a standard combobox in VB6? I'm
using a custom color scheme on a form and the default highlightcolor just
isn't cutting it. Would rather not have any highlighting at all.

I know that I can determine the length of a line as in sngLineLnth = Printer.TextWidth(Text1.Text).
Because I have a limited printed space, say 5 inches, I want to control (?) the input length to
prevent losing the end of a line too long (like this sentence).  My idea is:  I set ...

I'm trying to put my application in the tray bar and use a hotkey to give me
a popup menu.
It works fine if my application is on top of all the other programs.
The popup will not go over all the other windows.

How do I pass an array to a class module? Can I use the Property procedure,
or do I have to make a sub procedure visiable outside of the class to pass
it?

Can line numbers be displayed in the VB editor?

After installing Windows updates named "DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime" and
"Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool" on Saturday October 9 the MMControl function
in VisualBasic 6 has been misbehaving, such that I am no longer able to view
movie

Hi People,
Can you pass arrays from a function back to the calling procedure?
Gavin

Hi, I have a problem here.
Referring to the following programming structure, is there a way to cause
the computer to overflow or stop  by inputting wrong values of intTime
and/or intDay? i.e. I don't want the program to jump to label NotWritten:.

I am wondering if anybody can help me. On a program I am making I need
a browse button which when clicked opens a dialog box so you can
select a file, and this puts the file name "c:\ldifs\blabla.txt" in
the text box above.

I have built an VB6 ActiveX control which runs inside IE.  It works fine,
but when the user shuts down IE (even if they have navigated to a different
page first), I get a Microsoft IE6 error.
My understanding is that the problem is related to not releasing all

I'm playing around with an application I wrote that generates streaming
audio through the waveOutXyz API.  Basically, a StreamingSound class manages
the API and captures waveOut events to re-fill the wave buffer and provide
seamless audio.  It owns an instance of a Sampler class, ...

My VB6 program rotates .bmp files +/- 90 deg. It works OK but is rather
slow, ~3 seconds for an 800 X 600 picture as an exe on a 2.1Ghz Athlon.
The source picture is input as binary to inpic(). The heart of the
program moves triplets of colour bytes from inpic() to outpic().