VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

Ok this is strange. I have several RichTextBoxes which I initialize
with a formatting such as color, size, etc.
Strange thing happens if at any time I click in the box in such a way
that I move the mouse, it actually highlights what I think is the last

I am new to VB6.  Is there any way I can set a variable one time at the
beginning and it carry through the whole APP?  I would like to set DataPath$
= "v:\shared\attendance".

I have a ToolBar with the icons in the ImageList control.  How do I replace the icons in the
ListImage?  My efforts to date have caused complete replacement of the ToolBar and ImageList.  I
hope there is a simpler method than what I have attempted.
Thank you,

Iv'e been looking for a way to read a range of cells from an Excel sheet to
put in an array
and
a way to read just one cell to put in a variable.

I found some code on the internet once, and cannot remember where I found
it.
How do I add an extra line to another programs system menu and interact with
it, i.e. know when it's clicked on?

Hi have built a new version of the exe and also the dll's that the exe
uses.
When i try to start the dll i get an error:
The procedure entry point xxxx is not found in the yyy.dll.

A question from a vbrookie.
Can anybody tell me why I need the extra open and close statements in
the code below?  If I comment them out then the delete only works
every second time, unless I put a breakpoint in the code, in which

I created a program on my college's computers and made it a .exe, it
works on the college's computers but it doesn't work on my home
computer it just comes up with an error message: "Class not
registered. You need the following file installed on your machine.

I have a project called A.vbp. I also have another project call B.vbp.
In B.vbp there is a class that calls a function called
Openfile(RecordNumber as integer)as Long.
In project A a file gets opened as #1 and then later the project calls

The following works OK, plays the 'Tada' sound
Private Declare Function mciExecute Lib "winmm.dll" (ByVal lpstrCommand As
String) As Long
Dim x

I have a question about declaring variables for writing data to a file for
random access.
I have two string variables declared in a module (user-defined types).
The point is that for one of them  i can't define (hard coded) a fixed

Hi All, thanks in advance to all for assisting me on this question:
I have an application that will compile in P-Code but not in Native Code!
my question I guess is what is the difference.  I am sure I have always
compiled in Native Code but now as I go to compile I get a stoppage ...

I want to be able to create an in-memory bitmap image of a word/phrase
of text and then save that image to disk as either a bitmap (bmp), GIF
or JPEG image.  Can someone post a code snippet that does just this in
VB ?

I have a very odd situation. I have a very simple program that passes a
parameter to a routine that defines an input file name and an output file
name.
The directory structure for the copy command is static, with onlya portion

I have some small textboxes on my form where the user can enter
numbers to assign font sizes to various other controls. To activate
that number, I have put the code for what to do in two places:
The textbox's LostFocus and also KeyDown