VB Forum / General 2 / November 2004

I am quite new to vb programming ( I used to program in PHP etc.), but now I
have a new job and I have to manage and support quite big vb application.
The problem I have is that the application does not unload when I quit it -
I can still see it in task manager.

To be more specific with my question:
I'm creating a bible trivia program, with a very simple gui.  Here is the code I am working on.  Anyone got any tips to point me in the right direction of better code?    Now I'm trying to figure out how to randomly call the questions, but not ...

Can anyone help with this.I have a .csv file which I need to parse.
I am trying to copy the 8th,9th and 10th characters into a data variable.
There are hundreds of lines in the .csv file but only one with the required
characters.

When I 'Make' a .exe of my project it runs
10 times slower than running the app from
within the MS VB developer.
Can anyone tell me why that should be.

I want to get the meta data of my digital pictures (Date picture taken) and
I can't seem to find the format of the jpg file.  This seems to be something
very common but can't seem to figure it out.
Bruce

I'm using a publicly defined (in a module) data type.  A variable of this
data type is created by a class module and I want to make it available as a
property to another class module (client/server relationship). However, the
project does not compile, even though it works in VBA ...

I have a visual basic program that has arrays that can get very large.
In fact they get so large that they exceed memory limits.
I was thinking of using a 'ADO recordset' instead, and I hoped that if
the recordset was connected to a database, that somehow Visual Basic

Can anyone please help with the following parsing problems.
If I have a  file containing strings strings for example ,11,166, / 21, 67 ,
6789
The / only occurs once in the file how do I  extract the characters

How is it possible to search for a substring inside a string in
Visual Basic 6? In VB.NET you would use say
stringToSearch.IndexOf(substringToFind)
Is this method also available in VB6? If not, how would you do this

I want to transmit my vb6 app via e-mail to a non vb win98
machine. The P&D wizard has made the following.
1.Support Folder (contains about 10 files )
2.SETUP.LST

I've just finished reading a long thread near the end of this discussion
group, the thrust of which is that the PDW is bug-ridden, archaic, and not
suited for modern OS's.  We've been using PDW for some time without problems
(including installation on an XP Pro computer) but the ...

I have a form in another application that I need to fill in 5 text boxes.  I
do not have any troubles finding the form and sending the key strokes to it.
The problem is I need to make sure I'm putting the text in the proper boxes.
How can I determine which text boxes or buttons on ...

If in win XP user inside application opens open dialog box, provided by
component microsoft common dialog, he is able to click explore and than open
folder and files of the machine he is working on (and also netvork
neighbourghood).

Suppose I have multiple files like test.0, test.1, .... test.10, how
can I test all of these files exist based on test.* in VB6?
thanks.
albert

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