VB Forum / General 2 / March 2005

I am supposed to learn some VB in the next few days and write a program
that uses  MS Access. Now, my RDBMS skills are almost non-existant,
though my logical skills in c, C++ and Java are good. Cane someone help
me out along the way. I need to write a simple program with VB as the

I've managed to put a number of webbrowser objects on my form in a control
array at runtime.
How can I trap events for individual browsers?
For example, how can I detect that the document in browser(3) has finished

I would like for the user of my program to not have the capability to click
on the upper right corner (Windows-X) to end the program.  If I could make
it disappear that would be fine.  The program has internal controls to end
the program but to first save some necessary files.  ...

I am thinking of using either Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic .NET? I am more
inclinded of using VB .NET because of the lower cost associated with it? I
fairly new to visual basic.
Main aim is to write the script and make interface to get the user input

I created a caption for my label and in the .frm file I see the
following:
caption = $"someform.frx":6B33
instead of the caption string.

All hail Sir Bill Gates of H.M.S.M.S..
The knight in swiss cheese armor.

I recently purchased a mapping program that has the various files stored on the CD.  Can I do that
with my programs?  I am not a trained programmer but an experimenter who dabbles in VB6 programs.  I
try to do things that I see what others have done.   I have VB6 SP6 and XP home ...

Are .asp pages on the internet written in visual basic? The code looks very
much like it.
Are there a few other options the .asp files could be written in, and how
can i tell?

Hi in VB 5/6 you could set which form was initiated at run time, this was in
build options I think, iv just come back to VB and vb.net in particular and
I cant find that option.
could some nice person inform me on how to set which form is displayed ?

I have created a database called ritten.mdb, it is assigned with the "ado
data control 6.0" etc.etc... to DBControl.
connection string =
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data

I'm just making my first foray into using API calls (many thanks for advice
received from this group so far) and I see there is a utility called API
viewer with it's associated text file.  This does not appear on my set-up &
I've searched my CD's for it.  Can anyone point to a ...

I'm running VB6 SP6 on W2K, SP4.
I just started encountering something strange.  I start up my project
and double click on an existing form that has a FarPoint spread grid on
it and I get a "Out of Memory" message box.

Could someone recommend a low cost (or free) Active-X control, .dll,
etc., that I could incorporate into my VB6 programs to extract .gz
files?  I have found several that work with common .zip files but
nothing suitable for extracting .gz.  Thanks

Does anyone know why an IE browser does not execute some hyperlinks.  They
are Java Based Links.  Does anyone have the IE Newsgroup?
Thanks!
Sharrukin

All I want is to get 3 randomly generated numbers into 3 vars from a
dynamically given number range, but I'm sure that my code, which is below,
isn't working properly:
bytTrialistSeed = UBound(arrTrialistsMatrix, 2)