VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

Why is it that after I close an ADO recordset defined locally
   Dim adoRS as New ADODC.Recordset
that so many examples insist that I should set it to nothing as well?
   adoRS.Close

I have made a program in VB 6.0 that is to be installed with Microsoft
msi installer. Together with the program I want to install a folder
with some graphics. These files are not vital to the program, so the
user must be allowed to delete them if he wants to.

I had a VB6 application which ran ok under Win98, but has a fault under XP.
It still runs ok, until it's terminated when I get a "<prog> has encountered
a problem and needs to close." message, with the "Send error log" to MS. This
occurs whether stand-alone or under VB. I've sent ...

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction when it
comes to taking a string input and parsing said string so that it can
be broken up into representative syllables. This is hopefully going to
allow me to take a name as input and break the name into syllables so

Hi all,
I've worked out that the limit of a textbox is 64Kb. What can I do if
the I want to work with text which is, say four or five times as much?
Can I extend the limit (maxlength??) of the text box or do I have to

I have lost my MSDN disk from Visual Basic 6, so I can't install the
help files. Is there any other source of the necessary files?

I need to clear the grid between updates without clearing the header row.
What is the speediest way to do this?
Thanks for your time.
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I have a good solution for your problem about printer status checking
and monitoring. But the solution costs a bit. if still interested,
Contact
alibinashraf@yahoo.com

There is one hell of annoying thing that the VB 6 environment does.
If I copy say,
Private Sub Picture1_MouseUp(button As Integer, shift As Integer, x As
Single, y As Single)

I'm looking for a way determine the Motherboard brand name (ie:Dell or ASUS,
etc) as well as the processor type (ie:Pentium 4, Celeron, etc). I'm fair in
the use of VB6 and I'm reasonably familiar with API calls (experience using
AllAPI.net). I've been able fo find much of the ...

In my program a user can enter a number and it gets added to a listbox.  And
he can repeat this.  However, how do I get a text box to display the total
of all the numbers in the listbox??? For example, if he added 1,3,5, the
listbox displays 9.

I have code that I've used before to automatically insert the current date
and time into text boxes when a user clicks in the box, like this:
Private Sub txtDate_GotFocus()
txtDate = Date

Does anyone have a simple set of code for making an asynchronous call
in VB6 to a COM object.  Is this doable?  What I would like to
accomplish is to take a long running job on a single machine and parce
it out to 4 or 5 machines.

I have a have a number of bitmap data structures which I would like to
hash to short strings. (i.e. hash(bitmap)="Fred" etc.).  Each bitmap is
about 4K in size.  Is there any way to do this in visual basic?
Raphael

I am trying to turn off tab stop for all controls on my form (so i can
trap a Tab key press). However, I don't see the TabStop property for
the Frame controls (which I'm using to group option buttons). Yet the
Frame controls have a TabIndex property. When I run my app, pressing