VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

Does anyone know how to print to a filename programmatically without
having a dialog box appear?
Regards,
Michael Floyd

how can I direct an additem to enter the grid at row/colume x/y

I've got the 'interesting' problem that the VBAProject tree stays
visible _after_ I have closed a file.
It doesn't even matter, if the file has any VB code in it or not, eveb
then the file VBAProject tree stays visible.

I'm just learning this so ... mercy!
This chapter on string manipulation/searching seems a bit
clunky to me.  I'm used to perl and they way they
handle things.  Not better, just used to it.

I am stuck on a problem that involves opening an Excel worksheet into a
fom with a sheet embedded into it.
What I would like to do is open the form with the excel sheet call
stats, and load it with a sheet created in Excel.

I'm interested in creating applications for Windows that do not require
the .NET Framework to be installed.  First some background as
motivation, and then the questions...
Background/Motivation:

I'm having trouble with the following:
Db.Execute "ALTER TABLE printers ADD COLUMN id counter, name integer
DEFAULT 100)"
The above will not work, I need to have a default value for the colom

I want to enable users of a VB6 application to click on a button (or
other object) which will cause a named web page (specified as a URL)
to be opened using their browser - similar to the HYPERLINK function
in Excel. Can this be done with a standard VB6 control, or is there a

I have an application that has to write text-files from the
contents of a RichText-box or from the Clipboard. It's also
necessary to get and set the Clipboard.
Anything works fine so far for most users, but languages with

I am sure this is another newbie mistake/question, so apologies in
advance... [Unfortunately, I am a newbie, so these are the only kind of
questions I have.]
I am trying to build a program that has an alarm clock feature

Is there a way to implement the backspace functionality in a masked box
programmatically?
I have maskedbox for entering telephone no. with the following mask.
mskboxTelNo.Mask = "(###) ###-####"