VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

I'm really a newbie.
How can I trap (read in my program) the parameters which where giving at the
launch of the my program?
thanks for any tips

How do you change the default directory used
by the 'open project' toolbar button?
Thanks

I have an MSFlexGrid which has a number of columns of data.
I want to display  a richTextBox
in front (and on top) of the columns.
Each text box would contain the all the text from one column.

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Hello all! I have in interesting situation that's driving me crazy... I've
written a program that takes a CNC source program and translates the CNC
codes into human readable format. I have two menu options, one prints the
entire program listing in it's native format, and the second ...

I use VB6 Sp5.
The following happens: an application that runs fine on different Window
versions on about 800 systems. Suddenly, after a change from the program, on
some XP systems the commondialog gives Error 380 Improper property value.

Is this even possible? and if so, is it feasable?
TIA

I use datediff() to determine the period between dates. This works
perfectly, but...
Datediff() calculates in days, hours or minutes. Instead of "500 days" as
result I want 1 year, .. months and .. days. Is there a solution in VB6 or

I sell a software product that I wrote in VB6 and used Package & Deployment
Wizard to make the distributable. It's been working fine for all customers,
but now there's one who says it won't install because the "xp-AntiSpy 3.8
Setup Wizard" appears and interferes.

I'm a newbie with VB. But I need to do a small thing.
What I want to achieve is receiving a variable that has been send when I
launch my program.
   ex.:    c:\foto\foto.exe filename.bmp

i tried using the following code using a database originally created in
access97 and updated to 2000.
when i ran the code i got the error msg at the end of posting.  however when i
tried using a 2 year old backup still in 97 format it worked.

for your info - I'm a newbe.
Code is at the bottom.
Access dbase (each form ca. 10 KB) if my explanations are not enough
(probably they aren't).

I have been trying to get VB 6 and I learned about the downgrading process
on this group.  I called MS and they told me Visual Studio 6 was no longer
available but Visual Basic 6 was.  But I could only downgrade one version so
I needed to buy Visual Basic. Net 2002.

I'm working in .NET and I can't seem to get the behavior that I need
from the combobox. I'm sure it's possible, I just don't have the .NET
experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need a combobox
with the following behavior:

I'm experiencing a strange problem in vb 6.0.  I set up a form with
two command buttons in a control array and the form_load code is as
follows:
Private Sub Form_Load()