VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

How to get Visual Basic Help?
I can't figure out how to use Help in Visual Basic 6, Win98SE.
I wanted to use the command line parameter in my VB6 program.
I couldn't remember the basic command, so I clicked on search

How to get snmp value when I use Visual Basic 6?

Hi: My only resource is Sam' VB in 24 hrs. lol.
How does one program in file handling?
Is there a book or Web site that lists specific VB routines for the standard
Dos commands.

Ive been wanting to upgrade to Visual Basic.net but everyone keeps telling
me that there are too many extra runtimes that have to be deployed for
people with older operating systems. This makes it hard to put a small trial
version on the internet because of file size and ...

I am a hobby programmer and would like to put together some apps for
my Dell Axim.
I am mainly interested in putting together programs to handle chess
game databases in PGN format (which is just a plain text format as

How can I add options to a textbox content menu. An alternative would
be to completely intercept and replace their context menu with my
own... which would result in different questions.. How can I intercept
and replace a textbox context menu and also duplicate the cut copy

Can someone tell me how to hook and disable the control alt delete key
in win2k or xp?? Any answer would be appreciated!

What I want to do is this:
Load a picture from file without using a picturebox. I've tried IPicture,
Picture and StdPicture types all with success. Now I want to transfer the
picture to a picturebox, resizing it on the way. Converting HiMetric to

Sorry for such a trivial question, although Its been a while since I did any
serious VB work so I'm a little rusty. This is one of those simple things
that drives you nuts that you simpily just forgot...
Written a text file into an array (with "mystring() = Split(Variable,

Hi Gang
Sorry if this message appears twice.
I'm new to the list and my first question hasn't appeared.
I use Excel for most of my programs

I have a strange issue I can't seem to get a handle on. I'm reading in an
INF file like so:
Public Function mP_GetFileText(sFileName As String, Optional bNoLock As
Boolean = True, Optional nStart As Long = 1) As String

The purpose of my program is to create invoices for clients. I'm trying to
create an array variable, for example:
Dim invstr(100)
I could always set the variables constant to create 100 rows, although this

How can my vb program recognize that the opened Excel application has
been closed before exiting from my VB program?  (ie X on Excel app
Control Box is clicked or from File -> Exit = error message)
My program successfully opens an MS Excel object, prints statistical

Can you have your form / app / exe "background" transparent at run-time?
Like the Acrobat reader 6.0 splash screen (although I doubt it was written
in VBasic)
Richard

My application has previously printed a determined number of screen forms
using the PrintForm method from both the non-compiled and compiled versions.
I have just discovered that while the non-compiled version works properly,
there is a problem when compiled. I cannot find ...