VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

We have a workstation that had a custom VBA application installed on
it. The VBA application runs in the ERP that we use. The hard drive on
that machine had to be replaced, and now the VBA app is no longer
there. The old hard drive is untouched and still boots up...is there a

Thank you, Mike Williams for your reply.
I thought the card image was being drawn on the Image control, and that the
Me.hdc was referring to that control, and not the underlying form.
You have given me something here to ponder! I shall now get the books out and

I have a MaskedBox control which accepts telephone no. with the
followin mask - (___)___-____
I  have created a numeric keypad using command buttons for eg: 1, 2, 3
etc..

I have a VB app. This started happening recently,  I don't know if its
one of the service packs or what. When the application is shut down, it
still remains in the applications list when looked in Win2000 Task
Manager (the ALT+CTRL+DEL thing)

Hi.  We have an app out there with an Access 2000 backend.  It also uses
the Script control.  It appears to work on all PCs, but we have one end
user with this error.  It reads:
Error #713 (Class not registered.  Looking for object with CLSID:

I am running
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Microsoft Develop Environment 2003 Version 7.1.3088
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Version 1.1.4322 SP1

where can I find better comboBox ocx control then standard control
included in Visual Basic 6?
Thanks for an answer.
Riki

Anyone who can help with this is a star!
I have a plain text file with date and price data - an example:
20050114,1048800
20050118,1164900

I'm thinking of adding a toolbar to my app which enables the user to launch
other EXEs. I also want to launch EXEs from shortcut links, which can be
done with the Shell command. What I want to know is:
1. How do I retreive the icon that a shortcut uses,

Just learning here
I have an example that plays with printing.
The first thing they want you to do is save the current font
setting.

Here's my script--need help with output to text file (must be missing
something here like closing the file or something). Any help would be
greatly appreciated here. Lastly, I'm using Visual Basic .NET 2003.
Source...

Hi NG,
How can I implement another error-window instead of the standard dialog
? I would have an error window with more details about it.
The project is really big (40 forms, 300 sub/function).

If I wanted to include a 'timebomb' in a program , how would I do it.?
By a 'timebomb',  I mean a program that will only run for a prest number of
times,  or alternatively,   a program that will only run until a certain
date.

I am using a ComboBox with the style - Dropdown List. When it is click
on it drops down and shows 8 entries and has a vertical scroll bar. Is
there any way to get it to show more entries in the drop down window?
stan

Can anyone please help out this newbie?
I am writing a card game in VB6 and using MS Cards32.dll functions for
the first time. I have constructed an Image array, and have found no difficulty
in drawing the card images themselves at their required locations using :