VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

I have some internet chat programs that were written in visual
basic and will run on the school's NT machines but won't run
on my win95b box.
Will installing VB runtime libraries on the 95 box help? If

I would like to find a way of having the condition "IF (selected cell's
date value) = (today's date value) THEN ..."
I've wrote this but the syntax is wrong and I'm finding trouble digging
up the right syntax:

I've successfully made a connection in my VB app to MS Word and I'm trying
to work out how to output text to the word document so that it is aligned to
the right, as in the senders address in a letter.
Does anyone know what the Selection command for this is or know of any good

How do I call a .chm  file in a VB6 application?
Everything I can find is for a .hlp using a common dialog doesn't work with
the new file format .chm.

Hey, can anyone help me? I have a ListView with two columns and im
trying to set the first column to a picture...how do i do this?? I have
an ImageList that contains my icon.
Set list_item = ListView2.ListItems.Add(.......

In a standard VB project, I instantiate a class (within the project).
I then call a method in the class from Sub Main.
The method shows a Form.
I have noticed that the class's termination event fires before I have a

 I have some little programs, written in Visual Basic 6, that uses a
DB2 Database with an ODBC Driver.
 The programs, have been working fine in a Windows NT machine, and I
have also probe them in a Windows 2000 Professional, but when run in a

I have a slight problem related to taking the values out of a database. I
understand as far as sending the SQL statement and then using a recordset to
gain the data. But im trying to write a database class what i can use within
all my scripts. So I cant use code like the ...

okay, doing some printing out of VB6.  I've found printer and can change
fonts and type size, now I need to set the margins for my printed page and
don't see printdoc in msdn - what should I be looking for??
Also, how do I check to see if the current location on the page + the next,

Is there any equivalent of the FontMetrics method in Visual Basic? I
want to know what is the length and height in terms of pixels of a given
string using a given font and device context (e.g. user screen)

I'm thinking of investing in a copy of VB6 and was going to go for the
Learning Edition (maybe Deluxe). Now I've seen a comment that the Learning
Edition does not create .exe files. I presume that means the programs I
create will only be able to run inside the editor's ...

Sound wierd I know buthere what I am trying to do.  There is about 25 places
in my code that calls the below sub routine.  Each time the day array
changes.
Private Sub save_arrays(day As String)

Canon's RC-SDK (v8.1 / 8.2) allows developers control over their EOS range
of cameras and the images they take. The functions contained in the SDK
are not COM, but c++ api-like.
I've had few problems using the SDK, execpt for one function which is

i create an activex object to print a .doc file like below
dim a =CreateObject("Word.Application")
a= a.Documents.open(filename, , 1)
a.printout()

I'm trying to use the avicap32.dll api. to capture an image from a webcam.
but I'm having no luck.  is there a different api to use? bellow is what I
have so far. on the command button, I get one loop where bReturn is true,
but the strName in empty.  any help would be greatly ...