VB Forum / General 2 / November 2004

Say I have a deck of 52 cards.
I get rank by ..rank = cardno mod 13 + 2
This gives rank from 2 to 14 ie 2 to Ace.
Next I get suit by ...suit = cardno mod 4

I have a listbox that I want to populate with information from a text file.
For each index in the listbox, I want to load the next line of the text
file, until there are no more lines. I have the code to open and read each
line from the text file, but I cannot figure out a way to ...

I have VB 6.0 SP6 (v 6.0.9782)
The problem I am seeing is that with the same idential code I can recompile
an exe and one time it works on a machine and one time it does not, the app
simply locks up...

Hi I am trying to create two random numbers
LBlnum1.Caption = Int(12 * Rnd) + 1
Lblnum2.Caption = Int(12 * Rnd) + 1
This creates the numbers but they are always the same numbers.

HELP!!!!!!!!!
Devo creare un programma diviso per exe.
Un programma Menu con dei bottoni che mi lancino dei proigrammi
separati, e che questi non tornino al menu' prima di essere stati

I know there's probably a gigabyte of information on the above topic
out there and I've been reading a bit of it. It seems I missed
something.
Some introduction: I'm new to VB (never actually learned it) and a

Does someone have somewhere on its hard disk a little sub that can
recursively parse all the controls in a form.
I need this to call, for EACH control in the form, a sub that will make some
work on it regarding to its name.

When I Start with Full Compile (Ctrl + F5), the DLL Project gets
Started fine.
But when I am trying to create the DLL file, the error given by VB is
'Variable Uses an Automation Type Not Supported in Visual Basic.'

Any know of a math library for doing faster math on arrays of data?
I have arrays of data having types of long and double.  I want a faster
way to process that data.  At present I am considering writing a C DLL
to do it.  I would like to use SSE2 if possible but I don't know it that

I have a string variable that will hold a path and a filename.
I want to trim out all but the filename and extension. I am pretty sure you
can do this via amid or something like that. Look for the last occurrence of
the "\" and then pull all that is left to be the filename. But I ...

I've got an app that uses a user control within the EXE project.
Most users are fine Win 98, XP, 2000 etc but am having problems with a
NT4 workstation. It comes back with an error stating 'unable to load
control'

Is it possible to edit data from a connected SQL-server using DAO?
I can create snapshot recordsets, even perform action queries.
But  every time I try to edit/update a recordset, it tells me the database
is readonly. I tried to work in the SQL-Server directly and via linked

how can i make registry keys / string-keys and DWORD keys in the system
registry?
I need to add my programm on the Services list, so i had to change come
regs.

Hello everybody!  I am having problems with terminating process.
Postmessage does not terminate the process (my application) on local
computer. What am I doing wrong. The code is attached:
Const WM_QUIT = &H12

Can anyone tell me how to output GP-IB commands by means of VB6 on a PC with
a GP-IB card? Really simple absolute idot's guide required please! Thanks