VB Forum / General 2 / January 2005

I have written a (VB 5 Learning edition) program which I want to send to
some colleagues. The program reads a .jpg image file for part of its
display.
When I use 'Make' to create the .exe file, can I include / embed the .jpg

Hi,  I am having a strange issue with a class in VB6.  I am running a
webserver using IIS on windows 2000 and an ASP UI.  I am receiving random
"activex can't create component" errors.  If you refresh the page, the error
goes away.  If you refresh again, it will happen.  This ...

Is there any way I can read just the last lines of a text file without
first having to go through the whole file??
The reason I'm asking is that I'm writing a program that coninuosly
scans a log file created by another program (not mine). Since the

I am trying to find out which version of VB .NET we need to buy in
order to create Windows (NT) Service as shown in this helpful article
http://www.developerfusion.com/show/3441/1
We emailed Microsoft and got back a very ambiguous return email which

I have an application dating back to 1996.  I used DAO 2.5 for access to a
Jet db.  Over time I migrated to DAO 2.5/3.51 and to VB6.  I use the Wise
InstallBuilder 8 to create the install file.
Lately, people with Windows XP are not able to access the db.  I assume

How do I control the order of print jobs via VB6 code?  I send a text
cover sheet (1) followed by a tiff file (2) to the printer in that
order: 1-2.  The print spooler seems to have a mind of its own however,
sometimes these pages come out in 1-2 order, other times in 2-1 order,

Whats the difference between str$ and str??

I like my program to work simultaneously on 2 monitors.
I have a computer with a matrox G400 dualhead graphics card.
On this card I installed 2 touchscreens and connected the screens on
separate com-ports.

I am using Visual Studio Installer to create installation packages for
my Visual Basic 6.0 applications.  After creating and distributing a
package, I would like to save the settings I used to generate the
package.  When I use the Save toolbar button in the Visual Studio

Is it possible to have a form in project a open a form in project b?
Thanks Michael

I've downloaded a program that controls a device via the com port. When I
run the code it claims that the port is already open, on the
MSComm1.PortOpen = True line. When I delete this line it tells me that I
have to first open the port before I can send any data to it. Also I added

A developer helped me with thiscode snippet from the General Forum and it
worked the way it was intended on his machine but on mine and another
gentlleman from that forum had a similar problem like mine.  Can someone see
if they can reproduce this problem and perhaps if a fix exists ...

Dear VB(6) Fans
I have 4 textbox input fileds below each other. I move the cursor
between them by pressing the up_arrow and down_arrow keys. Now I
realized, that if the cursor arrives into one of the textboxes, it is

How do I run more than one subroutine at the same time?
Thanks Michael

When using the Form.PrintForm I get Error 486.  Any ideas on the cause?
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