VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

How do I send data to, and receive from a LPT printer.
I have a pebble (www.evolis.com) printer, this thing can print credit
cards. And write data to the magnetic stripe. I got some develop tools
from the supplier, but that is all in VC++. VC++ is not my cup a tea.

Is it possible to insert a line break (CRLF) into text in the caption
property of a label control at design-time? (I know how to do it at
run-time)
Thanks

Hello Newsgroup,
I have a great problem with my programm:
environment:
WinXP SP1

'I am converting a large VB3 app with DAO and Access2,
'to VB6 still with DAO and Access2000
' a recurring problem is that the converted code repeatedly does
' "object not in this collection"

I'm newbie and I've got a little problem with undersatnding the decoding
algorithm of the text string i.e.:
'Address data is returned for this request
   Dim re As New Regex("INPUT.*NAME=" & Chr(34) &

Is it possible to set a filter on a ListBox?
This is the situation. I have a collection of picterus devided over three
directories. I want to show the user all the names of the pictures in one
list. Using a filelist is therfor not possible. So what I did is reading the

I made a dialogue form just for the user to enter some info.
At design time, some very weird things are happening.
1. When editing the Event procedure for the command button that will
call this form, typing the form name followed by a trailing . does not

I've got this statement:
adoPrimaryRS.Find "[SaleID] = " & sPos
Basically this is in the routine when a datagrid gets a double-click.
It calls a proc within another form that loads and finds the value it

I've tried to search for an answer to this problem in the archives of
this group and although I've found some references to this, they are
either for VB5 prior to SP3, or they don't seem to have an answer to my
exact problem.

I stumbled on some of my really old VB projects, when going through
some old disks.
VB 6 won't open them, as they are written with VB 1, 2 and/or 3... And
saved in binary format rather than text...

I am trying to write a string (REG_SZ) to the registry using the
Shell.RegWrite method found in Visual Basic. The name I need this
string to have includes "\" characters in the name. How can I force
these char's to appearin the name.

I'm trying to make a project group of a few programs i made. Basically,
project 2 in the project group is a 'minigame' that i have finished and want
to add to the main game.
However, i can't figure out for the life of me how to refer to the second

Greetings. I need to take timing from serial GPS NMEA to time a looping 2
minute countdown timer to be sent to a Vorne M1000 for a dog sled race.
I need every second of text for the M1000 to be customizable, (actually only
about ten of them) and for those same points I need an audio ...

I want to make an .exe file that takes arguments. If I create a .vbs
file as below, it's ok.
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
For I = 0 to objArgs.Count - 1

I want to distribute a program which displays a lot of text in various text
or label controls. I aim to set the text within the program itself, rather
than reading it from a txt file. I know how to do this OK, but are there any
tips or tricks for writing out / handling / storing ...