VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

I have been working on vb6 from my classes for 6 months now i am
planning to buy it for my new computer.
1)I checked prices for visual basic on ebay and found that vb.net is
cheaper than vb6.Why is this so?

I would like to pass a Control array of OptionButtons that I created at run
time to a Sub.
Say I have Opt(0), Opt(1)......Opt(5) as OptionButtons, is there a way to
pass Opt to a function and have the function see it as an Array of

Whats wrong??
HELP please!
Option Explicit
Sub VbsGem()

Good day
Can someone tell me the format string I need to force the inclusion of
the milliseconds, as below?
BankCardTrack.DateTime = Format(Now, "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss:???")

I'm trying to get the behavior of UNIX systems, where moving the mouse from
one form to the other automatically sets focus. It's easy enough to do with
SetFocus on MouseOver, but it happens constantly as the mouse moves, which
causes some flicker. How can I only SetFocus on a form ...

a hint pls
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is it possible to display more than 255 characters in txtBox?
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in my database, some entries are longer that 255 ch. and they are not
displayed fully in txtBox

I'm wondering how to handle the problem of different screen resolutions for
programs that are being created for the general public. I'm working with a
15" monitor, and I use 800X600 screen resolution. 1024X768 on my monitor
makes the display too small. However, most people using ...

I can't reach www.codehound.com
Anyone nows what happend to them ?

newbie question-
I am writing a simple program that would require some sort of database
to store data. It would be ideal if it had SQL capability. I don't want
to go through installing something as like mysql thus I was wondering

Hi, all - if I am covering old ground, apologies -
Working with vb6 under  XP (SP2, if that is relevant)
1) is there any way other than a loop to count the number
  of files in a directory?

I am having problems packaging a project with the "wizard".
I cannot make packages which will install on other versions of Windows.
For instance if I make one and try to install on w2000 it just keeps
trying to update "system files which are out of date", reboot same thing.

i am trying to update a record in vb6 here is the code
when it hits the line with an *** i get the following error
run time error '3201'
object or provider is not capable of performing requested operation.

I have an image and I want to store the RGB of each pixel into a
3-dimensional array. Right now I'm using the GetPixel method but I'm
wondering if there is a faster way. Here's what I'm doing right now,
but it runs slower than I'd like:

I wonder if you can help.
I am using a MDI form as my main menu and all other forms are set as MDI
Child = True. The issue I have is - When I Load a  form it first appears in
the top right hand corner, If I then exit (Un Load) that form, therefore no