VB Forum / General 2 / December 2004

Hello --
Does anyone know of a math parser in which I can take a string and it displays
the formula.  This exists, for example, as MathML for use with HTML
(see http://www.w3.org/Math/) but I am not sure how to go about this with

is there an equivalent for the C recv & send socket syscall?
The network protokoll requires to receive a certain number of bytes from
the socket!
What I need is an IO which blocks alslong as the required bytes are not

I've a form with a groupbox witch contain 4 buttons. I searching for a
solutions to detect when I click on one of the buttons returning a reference
to the button thas has been pressed.
Thanks in advance,

I wish the best for these festive seasons to all of you ot there.
I have a form with an SSTAB control with 5 tabs.  In each tab I have a frame
with a number of controls, which include labels, textboxes, date pickers and
combo boxes.

hi all, is planet-source-code offline ?
greetings
martin

I'm trying to print a HTML file (or even better text string) with vb.
I'm using this :
WebBrowser1.ExecWB OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, 0, 0
which print the page but it adds the page number, headers and footers

Dear All, I have a problem here. I need to make my vb.net apps runs on
my user's machine. I've installed the .NET framework and my apps onto
the user's machine. Unfortunately, it keeps giving me CLR exception
error whenever I run it and the process ID keeps on changing!.

Is it possible to run process in parallel in VB.
If possibe, how?
What are the requirements..like version.os etc
Are there any problems associated with it?

Hi, I pretty new to Visual Basic (and windows coding in general) and I
have a question that may have an obvious answer.  I'm making a simple
app using the Windows Forms template... is there a way to set what my
window class is called?  Right now, its called something like

Is there anyway to lock a macro in excel to where you have to have a
password to access or run it?  Thank you.

I ended up making my own shape label control (a bit like the one from
microsoft help but with dblclick and mousemove options). Learnin' ain't
never hurt no one.
The control works great.

I've got a particular problem with an equation i'm using.
I've got 3 years worth of data to analyse growth etc. This is how i'm
doing it:
lbl.caption = (year1(1) - year2(1))/ year2(1)) * 100

I am trying to help a friend who has a library of jpg files of scanned
music in black and white.  She wants to print songs from their legal
sheet music for each instrument from this database.  The part I need
help with is the simplest way to print each sheet of music.  If there

We are using the Microsoft Date & Time Picker ActiveX (MSCOMCT2).
According to MSDN we can just copy the .ocx to our target client and
our application should work.
However, we had problems until we entered the registry entry held in

I want to use a command button whose caption changes according to the stage
of the program. I know how to do this OK, but the problem is that the length
of the caption varies considerably, and there doesn't seem to be a 'stretch'
or 'linewrap' property for command buttons. I can see ...