VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

I have written a program in Visual Basic for distribution. I am looking
for an internet based registration service and found SecureWrap
software protection.  Has any one used it?
www.securewrap.com.au

I have managed to add a vb front to an access database with no problem but i
cant seem to manage to run a query from VB.  I have tried the following code
and dont know why it does work:
Private Sub Command1_Click()

I'm trying to use Winsock object (VB6 SP5).
If I try to open an IP port and send data to it in the same subroutine
I get the error describing me the state of the socket is "Connecting".
If I OPEN the port in a subroutine and only in another I send data...

I have VB version 5 (Learning edition), and am thinking of upgrading to
Version 6.
Is it worth it?. What extra goodies does 6 have?
Thanks

I am trying to figure out a way to load a page and then jump to the bottom,
like if a anchor link was clicked..   Here is my code that I use to navigate
by..
NavigateAndWait "http://www.yahoo.com"

I am new to VB.NET and OOP. I have this code from a book :
Private Sub showPage_Click(ByVal sender as System.Object, ByVal e as
System.EventArgs) Handles showPage.Click
Dim fairyTales as Book

to confirm that user really wants to Quit, I prepped a regular form with 2
buttons and a question/confirmation ...
1. I wonder if this is the right (or at list acceptable) way to unload (end)
(simple, or less simple) application?

I'writing a container application in vb6 capable of executing several
external programs (various cd rom dictionary applications installed on
the system) choosen from a main control window.
After 1 minute of user inactivity the app should return to the main

Could someone tell me how to remove a 'dead' link in the VB6 components
list.  I created an ocx and I must have deleted or moved it at one time
without unregistering it and now I have 2 identical listings that both
locations point to the same ocx file.  Only one is valid and ...

I have written a program that reads a very large 15 meg + file as
binary , gets each character in the file, parses for specific phrases
and outputs to a listbox specific file information.
That is all working nicely.

One of the dlls I need to distribute is ATL.dll - there seems to be a
different version of this for each windows.
Any one know what this does?
( I thought the point of dlls was to be backward compatible.)

I have 2 different rountines to do this (shown below) and neither one
returns the same answer as the C asin function. In C
asin(-0.06/(5.7-(3.25/2))) returns   -0.0147244584421.
Thanks

I'm trying to understand this:
I try to determine if I can control scrolling of a regular, shipped with VB6
listbox with additional vertical scrollbar.
I have in mind a separate scrollbar which would scroll listbox.

I need a list of standard image buttons, similar to what's in word
(with save, print, B, U - italic etc.),
I could use the 'copy button image' feature in word or excel, but it
doesn't give me the button image in the 'sunk' state - cerain button

I need some sugested code snips here. I have a large powerepoint
presentation with songs. probably about 4 or 5 paged to each. What I
want to do is use VB to send a message to powerepoint to jump to a new
song i.e. page 62. Can this be done using a small VB application.