VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

I am trying to imlement an autofill feature in a text box, but that is
simply not working for me...  I know how to implement this with a combobox,
but for some (perhaps) strange reasons I need to make this work with a
standard text box and an array of string values.

So far I have only seen ADSI and .Net solutions to this, but is there
anyway of mathmatically converting an Integer8 into something that is a
lot more useful?
What I have seen though is something like:

We have a shared VB 6.0 component, a DLL, which is called by N number
of libraries.
We have experienced unexpected behavior in the field with the
component. In the investigation we looked inside the VBP files of the

I've populated a listBox with a load of country names. Each country can be
included once, many times or not at all. I'm trying to work out how many
distinct country names there are as well as counting how many times each
country appears in the list. Here's an example of its ...

I have a VB6SP5 (XP Pro) program with one form.  The form has an Exit
button that closes db connections, and does Unload Me. There is no End
statement
The program never fails in interactive mode or in the IDE.

as i know, i can print a text file by reading the text inside and send to
printer line by line. but in print queue, the Document Name field will
show document and not its file name. Is there any method to create object
and send the whole text file to the printer as an object? sorry ...

(WindowsXP/HE SP2, OfficeXP/Pro SP3, VB5E, CPU P4/2.8G, 1GB Ram)
I am in need of a routine/function for simply copying a folder tree, i.e. "C:\Program Files\*" to C:\Temp\,  subdirs needed.
With DOS xcopy works fine, with VB?
Thanks!

I want to input data into an MSFlexGrid. I tried to solutions: writing a
subroutine that reacts to the KeyPress event and putting a textbox atop of
the cell I want to fill.
However, there should be a better way to edit the cells of the grid. Does it

I'm puzzled about date formats.
It seems that I have to use the American date format to define a date within
a program
eg

I'm relatively new to VB(6) and am used to constructing arrays in PHP
(script) 'on-the-fly' in the forl $name['blah']['subblah'] = 'text'.
I was hoping to GOd that it would be simple in VB but it turns out not
to be!

I'm trying to print out 2 string arrays in a picture. Line 1 is array 1 line
2 is array 2.
I can print out both arrays on the same line but when I put in vbcrlf , only
the 1st cell prints both lines and is partially correct. The other cells

I've been hunting for a bit on this and can't seem to find a difinitive
listing of all of the functions one can call here. I'm concerned primarily
with floppy drive and hard drive access. The functions are listed at the
MSDN ste, but the contant values associated with these aren't ...

VB6 .. WinXP
I have a combobox style 0 that I load items from a database.  This
allows the user to choose what he wants from the drop down list, etc.
I also want them to be able to just type in their own entry in the

I have clip the code some so let me know if more information is needed.
The 2 calls or made from Form8 and the sub's are in x.bas. I get an
error when compiling when the line command in sub grid does not have
"What.". I also get a run time error on Print in Label_It if Print does

am writing a program that creates a huge report in Word and now i am
getting an complie error: Procedure too large =( i am pretty sure its
because of bad program writing but alot of my stuff is repeated but i
am not sure how else to write the code. i believe that i could call a