VB Forum / General 2 / February 2005

How do I call a .chm or .hlp file in a VB6 application?

I recently made a UserControl consisting of buttons in a frame.
The problem is that random strange markings appear sometimes under the
buttons. They can be 'wiped off' with another window, and re-marked also
with other windows (by dragging them over). Anyone know the problem and/or

OK, so I've never done this particular aspect of coding in
VB6. I wrote a little application which goes to someone's
website to view a webcam pic they've posted as a .jpg. At the
present time my little app (which was probably done thousands

I am working with a DataGrid using VB .Net (Windows Forms).  I want to
make one of the columns un-editable.  I was able to do that by setting
the  .dsName.Tables("TblName").Columns("ColName").ReadOnly = True
That made it so you can't change the value in the column, but you're

The Or operator is a boolean type comparing two different variables.  Thats
no good for me!!
What I am trying to do is the following:
I have a control array of combo boxes.  When either index 44 or 141 is click

I am new to the group, but have been a VB6 programmer for many years.
Am rusty, and out of practice.
Question: I believe there is a way to use VB6 as a front end to call up
MS Excel workbooks and worksheets. What sort of component or reference

I am testing a Visual Basic application. There appears to be a fault with
the Zorder.
A window is supposed to stay always at the top most layer but 50% of the
time it goes behind the other windows. The developers of this software are

Anybody know how to detect when a user drags between columns in a
MSHFlexGrid when resizing column width?  (Short of setting up a timer event
that continuously monitors column width.) MouseDown, MouseUp, MouseMove,
MouseIcon etc. all seem to be 'blind' when my mouse cursor ...

Hi, I'd like your advice... I have a column in my sql table that the
data type is float...
In my program, I ask the user to enter numeric values... the values
can contain decimals... What would be the best conversion for my use ?

A friend of mine called me today with a problem:  He has an old
(obviously) VB3 app that has a passworded login form.  The app
generates the password based on some hardware configuration information
that the app checks for.  The password generator has quit working on

We have a VB Program that we have created that runs perfectly on many
computers.  One of our customers installed on 250 computers and 25 of
them are getting an error, Runtime Error 7 out of memory.  This error
only occurs when we start our program at startup.  If we have the user

Help!
Could someone please help me. I have set up cut copy and paste commands
in my program only problem is that it will only copy the item or last item I
selected.

I know this is a newb question, but how do you count a text string in a
text string? I am looking to count "\" in CStr(fld.Path)? I was working
with a function I downloaded called getlen which calls a function
strcount, but I butchered it and cannot find the source.

I have a block of code that encrypts passwords before storing them it
an access database.  It works fine on my pc, however on my client they
get the following error on the last line of code when entering a
password.

I want to be able to shutdown another program that is running from my VB
program, if windows can close a program them it must be posible to do it
from another program.
Any ideas