VB Forum / General 2 / March 2005

Can anyone please help with a combo box problem.
I have several combo boxes on a form and they are populated using an access
database.
When not selected the combo.text is blank which is what I want. However

My VB6 project is prepared and compiled on my machine. Right to Left
Property has been set to true on all forms. all Menus are showing
Right aligned.
When I install the application on other computer, the Right to Left

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 ...

I'm new to VB6, so please excuse any stupid comments!!
I have a project that relies on a .ddl file created by compiling
another project. Once the first one is successfully compiled and
closed, I attempt to compile the second file, and it claims there is a

I'm trying to remove a field from an access table using vb6 but I keep
getting an error message.
"Runtime Error '3208'
Cannot delete a field that is part of an index or is needed by the system."

I would like a put a directory browser in my vb 6 form that has the
'Desktop' as the root, with all the pseudo folders (My Documents / My
Computer / My Network Places).  The windows API call SHBrowseForFolder
does this, but renders it in a dialog box.  Any suggestions on how i

 Hi everyone
I'm posting again this question as my system was down at time of the first
posting...well something in the newsgroups was down.
I'd like to know how i should declare a constant as an array with two

I have written a VB.NET form base application that is using the AxWebBrowser
activex control to display a Sharepoint Portal Server website.
The bug I am getting occurs when the application successfully navigates to
Sharepoint, and only after navigating to Sharepoint, at any time ...

This has caused me a lot of headache.  :-(
What I have done is to create a collection of "clsPics" objects, each
containing a reference to an image to be blitted on some surface, info on
where it should be positioned and so on.  When blitting the images, they (of

I'm working on a DLL to be used with visual basic 6.0.
I have a callback function in VB that I call from a C++ DLL that is
originally invoked from VB.
All this works fine when I'm running from the debug environment in

Hello Group,
I posted in the other VB group and it was quite a long post so
I don't think anyone will answer it LOL.
However, it seems I'm finding a bit of information on my own.

I'm running into a problem of forms not appearing on the task bar in my
VB6.0 Application.  The Splash Form and Main Form are both showing on
the task bar, but when I open a data entry form it opens but does not
appear on the taskbar.  This presents a problem getting back to it with

I've a UserFrom with TextBoxes that I launch from some word macro code.  I
can't seem go detect gain or loss of focus from them.  I can get change
events but they're not the the appropriate event on which to do validation.
Looking at Micrsoft's support site and various news groups ...

Hey Folks,
This one currently has me stumped.  I have to check for the existence of a
carriage return (Enter key, hex 0D) in text data.  First I tried:
   'Check comment to not contain the CR (13) character

has anybody noticed a problem with changing the mouse pointer of a treeview
control under windows 98 (SE).
Under XP the mouse pointer (set to custom with a 16x16 256 icon) changes as
you would expect when the mouse moves over the control but under 98 the