VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

Hello --
I can't figure out how to get the Data Project and blank form on the screen
at the same time so that I can drag the Command node onto the blank form.
I am following the tutorial on p 182 in

Is there a function which checks whether a variable is defined?
If the variable is unintialized it should return false, otherwise true....
I'm using VB6
Thanks for your reply!

Sorry if this is a basic question, but I can't seem to get this to
work.
I've created a Visual Basic.net program with a Web Control on it
(AxWebBrowser). I've also selected Project/Add Reference and selected

i need to kill a generic application not written in vb.
I used the "postmessage" WM_CLOSE API function, but the specific
application respond with a modal dialog "are you sure?" and don't die.
I know the

I've been searching how to make a VB6 Text Box Read Only and have not been
able to find a solution. I can set enabled to false, but I wish to retain
the color attributes that I change at runtime.
Thanks,

The form I have fills out the entire display screen of my monitor.  When I
first created it, the display only included about 2/3 of the form until I
changed the windowstate value of the form from 0 (Normal) to 2(maximized).
Maximized works fine until you attempt to change the data ...

I have a VB6 program which prints several pages.  While the last one is
being printed, the page ejects before it's done, and the computer gets an
Error 6 popup.  It only seems to happen when using a networked printer, it
works fine with a local printer.  When the page ejects ...

Can anyone help me.
I'm really new to Visual Basic (6) and am trying to write an app that
needs to know the EXE's name (e.g. google.exe). How on earth do I find
this out? I can't find any information anywhere, or am looking in the

I'm Running VB6 SP6.  Ever since upgrading my system from Win 98 to XP Pro
(SP2) IDE crashes 100% of the time on exit.
It isn't code related as even starting a new project and then exiting
immediately produces a crash.

I have a VB6 application which uses 2 forms - FrmAA and FrmBB.  I have
a variable in FrmAA defined as Public Bubbles as Boolean.  This is
declared in the General Declarations of FrmAA.  
Form AA shows Form BB by code as FrmBB.Show vbModeless, Me

I've created a workbook to play a game with my friends. Each time I insert
results a new worksheet should be created (which happens) and then this
worksheet should be activated. I'm fairly new to VBA but have used object
oriented programming before.

I am using VB 6 and trying to select 1 of 3 matrixes depending on 1 of 3
option buttons using the case statement.  Display is a variable 1-3 of the
matrix to be displayed. Option Buttons are named SelectMatrix (0),
SelectMatrix (1), & SelectMatrix (2) . The problem is the Case ...

I'm looking for a way to extract a file name and file create date and then
replace them after modifying them.
I'd be grateful for any help.
Peter

Anyone know why the substring() does not work in my VB app??
Is there something I could use in its place?

Are there any alternative to winsock.ocx if I want to use TCP/IP or UDP
protocol to make a VB.5.0 application............I'm tired of the
limitation's in winsock.ocx............??