VB Forum / General 2 / March 2005

I have an old Visual Basic 3.0 project that I am trying to update.
When I use the help compiler under Windows XP, I don't get any error
messages, but the resultant help file is always 0 bytes in length.
Any ideas as to why this is happening will be appreciated.

Hello --
Does an app which uses the DE convert to dotNET without problems?
Its ease of use lulled me into a possible false sense of accomplishment and
I had better learn the truth now before I finish the VB6 app, which is

All!
I posted a query a while ago as to how one can 'draw' lines on the
webbrowser control (as on an 'imported' chart). I'm re-asking that
query, plus another. The new one is - How can one Center a portion of,

I am writing a program and i need to include a list of places
such as
newcastle
london

     I want to provide functionality like that of the property window
in VB IDE particularly that of the catagorized mode. I should be able
to show the property-value pair in a an heirarchial manner. I need
something of a sort of cross between listview and the treeview, or

      What is the maximum limit of the Multiline textbox in VB?
Thanks
CPS

Hi, Everyone!
I use VB6. If I know the address of the variable in process memory, how
can I deduce the full address of that variable? How can I read the
variable from memory? How can I change the variable directly in memory?

Visual Basic
I need to creat a form which has the following 4 tabs:
Entry, Search/Update, Display and Exit.
Each tab shows a different set of controls inside the frame. How are

The code below subtracts two images from one another and determines if
there is any new things in the picture. A large enough color change
will "register" a pixel. The pixel is then plotted using SetPixel call.
On the form picture3 changes, but if I refresh it shows nothing. The

i have  develop a  vb6 program , it run smooth in the  windows 98, 2000
but when it run in xp
it show this error :
"Run-time error '3709'  The Connection cannot be used to perform the

Read. Decide. Sign the petition to Microsoft.
http://classicvb.org/petition/

Is there a VB function to convert a 2 letter string representing a hex  in
to a decimal number?
In other words the oppisite of the the Hex() function.
Given:

A couple of weeks ago, my VB IDE suddenly stopped showing
help when I press F1, and instead shows me a messagebox
saying "Can't find help".
Anyone know where I can kick VB in the but, and tell it to behave?

Does anyone have an old VB.LIC file they could let me have?
I have a client with an ancient VB3 system that needs a few small text
tweaks to its printed output.  It's a fairly complex app and the changes
required don't warrant a full VB.Net upgrade (or the time it would take!)

I've seen quite a bit of advanced API code and I often found it curious
that the author would chose to allocate a block of memory using an API
instead of using a byte array and getting the address with the old
VarPtr(mMemBlock(0)) trick.