VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

I'm just about to try out my first application on a mythical friend,
who's not very computer literate.  I've followed the instruction in
Halvorson  'Step by Step' and prepared the 'release' folder, containing
the setup file, on CD, which my friend can manage.

I'm trying to write a program which does something depending on the
time.  So I'm planning on getting the system time using the 'time'
statement, then say every hour or half hour do something (i.e. Get it
to display a message saying 'Hello' for test purposes, but the full

I don´t seem to be able to get the hang of the Queryunload event. Please
help me with this one!
As I understand the Queryunload event is supposed to be a boolean signal so
when user "clicks" shutdown this signal goes True and I should be able to

I am looking for an example in visual basic.net to scroll from scrollbars an
image in a picturebox. Anyhelp would be welcome. Thanks

anybody can tell me (please) how can i insert a sysipaddress32 control in
windows98???

I would like the users of my program to be able to view a webpage upon the
click of a button. How do I go about launching Internet Explorer and getting
the required webpage to load up? (using VB6)
Thanks

I have a problem where I have a large set of co-ordinates (several
hundred) and I need to calculate the shortest route that connects all
the points.
I understand that this is solved with a MST, probably using Prim's

I am creating a project where the contents of a label are created on
the load of the form (which contains code e.g. & Day(date)) and I
wondered if it is possible to get the text of the label to go on to two
lines insteed of one long line.  Is that possible?  If so could you

Is there any where i cud get this from as i wud like to add a vb front to an
access database??

I have a problem that I cannot delete components that are placed on a
R\abbed page in Visual Basic.Net 2003.
The form uses a Tab Control with several pages. I have a Panel on the page
and then some combo boxes, labels and text boxes.

This is a .Net question. I hope its in the right group.
Anyone know a good VB .Net news Group
Is there a way to get rid of the ScrollBars on a MDI parent form?
I have set the AutoScroll property to false but that won't work.

I've never worked with saving things to a file before and don't know
where to start.
I want it to read the entire file name of a file list box and convert
those names to a string to be saved into a textfile of the users

This seems strange, but I am probably not resetting some flag or
something. I have a series of textboxes which the user can go through
and change the properties of text on any one of them by clicking an
appropriate button. I use only one CommonDialogue control, which I

Can this be done ?:
1. I need to have a file unzipped to a dir when a program is started,
without any interfering from user ( zip file is known and dir is static ) ??
2. Anybetter, if I can extract an exact dir form within the zip file (dir

I've just found a neat utility on the web called Tweak Window. One trick it
does is producing "Ghost" windows. These are semi-transparent, always on
top, but seem to be disabled in some way, but allows mouse activity to be
passed to whatever window is underneath. Always on top ...