VB Forum / General 2 / March 2005

Hi hope you people can help me with this one.
I have a setup wit a stripe reader(magnetic card) connected to a
comport.
I use the oncomm-event to detect input on the comport.

Create a form with two fields, both indexed zero. One a textbox  named
txtinfo and one a combobox named cboinfo. Make them both invisible.
Insert the following code: Do not question the logic of this code. This is
stripped down for demo purposes only!

For some unknown reason my Form Layout Window has stopped showing a form on
it.
I can open & close the window, set docking on/off but no form. The right
click start-up options are also greyed out.

Hello there I need to apply to my project a DirListBox alied to a
FileListBox, that give.me a path to a access database, but this file
could be in a network, For local I use a DriveComboBox, but I need to
access to network locals...

I have to write a VB script to ftp a file.  I have experience with VB
but I do not know where to start.  It has been a while.

Dear all,
Desperate for some Expert opinion.
I wrote a sub that change border linestyle of each cell within a selected range, based on existing linestyle information. for example, Table1, line style is xlcontinuous. This sub will change all solid lines to dashdot (or whatever), ...

I developed a simple application for a friend to use and it works just fine
on my machine, however, when my friend tries to use it, it complains about
an MSFlexGrid license.  My app does use an MSFlexGrid control which is
essential.

I've just completed my first (useful) VB6 project & created an exe file.
On of the options was creating a version number - fine but how does my
program get at this to display it?
I also posted a question re the form layout window on 12/03/05 but no

I need to make an OpenFileDialog with 1 option on the filter with 2
extentions for exampe Openfiledialog.Filter = "Word Documents, Excel
Spreadsheets|*.doc,*.xls" I cant make that work though.

Hi everyone, I have an assignment, to create a simple VB program that
computes the volume of a cylinder.  The Form is pretty simple, it has a
label and text box for base radius, another for height and another for
volume with an OK button.  I have the code to put into the OK button ...

You've all seen the font combo-box in MS-Word which lists the fonts
available, with a preview of what the fonts look like.
I have been wondering how this was achieved, and would be glad if anyone
could explain, or provide a link to some tutorial/source code which explains

Can any of you experts tell me an easy way to save an 8 bit(256 color)
bitmap from vb6?
ps I spelt colour without the "u" because that is what VB makes me do and it
makes me mad!

I am developing VB6 apps and have VB6 installed.  I just got
VB.NET to experiment with. If I install it on the same PC as
VB6, will it harm or effect my VB6 development or apps ??
Thanks

crop and resize picture box:
does anyone know the code to resize a picture box and crop to a section
based on coordinates?

I'm trying to create a form in Excel to sort from the form and take the data
to another worksheet.
I am very new to this and any help would be appreciated.
I have a value in a cell that will direct what sheet I want the cells copied