VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

I'm building a maths program for year 6 children.
Problem with division - I generate a random number between say 1 and 1000. I
want to generate another random number which when divided by the first
number gives a whole number answer. Any Idea how I could do this? Obviously

I hope someone can post some working example code to aid me with this
problem:
I have a list of files located on a network drive which has read only
access permissions set. I cannot set full permissions. I need to open

Here is the problem:
We have several DHCP servers running on *nix boxes.  We have a 24/7
computer operator that are very entry level.
We have a DHCPCHECK.exe program that checks to see if DHCP is running,

I want to write a small application that sends some AT commands to my
mobile and order it do some things, like calling a telephone number. I
opened a hyper terminal on COM1, typed "AT" and got "OK" as a
response. Everything works fine using the hyper terminal.

Hello gang,
I am preparing to build a VB app that will parse and decode a Binary
file. I'll explain the file structure bellow, but what I am looking for
is some source explaining how to do things like this fast on VB. This

If I make a custom data Type and in a form I declare an instance of
one,
eg:
Type MyThing

I am writing an application in vb6.
I have a form(frmAddressCorrected) with 3 textboxes(txtState,
txtStreetAddress, txtZipcode) and a combo box(cmbCity)
I am trying to emulate the keyboard application by placing commnad

This has probably been covered many times and I apologize for losing the
code.
I am looking for code to play a midi file and at the same time, report back
(or be able to status check), whether or not it has completed playing the

I have a urgent printing problem with rotated text. When I print directly to
a PDF document it will show but when I use a postscript printer driver it
will not. I have tried all kind of settings and drivers but what ever I do
nothing helps. I need to print to a postscript file ...

I'm having a little problem when I'm using "messagebox.show" function
into Visual Basic .NET.
When I display an alert, I will see the box, buttons and title, but I
will not see the text written into the messagebox. Here is I simple

Dear Guys & Gals:
I have an app (VB6/SP5) running at one location where, periodically,
the program abterms to the desktop without any error message
whatsoever.  No problems at other locations.

What is the best way to open other forms and start a process on that
form?  Also, is it best to explicitly call Load FormName?
For example:
FormA:

Folks here were helpful when I enquired about speech to text in VB6 but
I didn't get a solution.
Is there a book I could buy that would help? TIA.
Regards

this statement worked in vb5 but in 6 it comes up as an error
strSQL = "Select * from PriceGuide where Title like '" & UnionTitle & "'*' and
number=" & UnionNumber & " order by title"
Call GuideSet.Open(strSQL, MyConnection, _

I am having problem reading CSV file that contains numbers and texts.
I am reading a CSV file that contains mp3 music infos.
"title","artist",bit rate(128),length(4:00),"filePath"
and split with comma(,). After that, put into the structure and run