VB Forum / General 2 / March 2005

I have a problem that I suspect shouldn't be this hard to figure out,
but I'm a .NET newbie so I'm looking for help.
I am reading from an XML file to populate a combo box with the value of
an "Name" attribute to several elements. When the user selects an item

edition: VB.net 2003
I read some values from a database and I write them in a plain ASCII
file. I would like to pad some of them with spaces. Like one example
is a value abcd. How can I write this value padded with spaces like "

Is there a way to detect consecutive black areas on the form..I have a
scanned image(placed on imagxpress control) on the form.If there is
continous black portion on the scanned image, it means the image has
not been scanned correctly. I would like to detect this.Is it possible

Ive to draw a line on a picture i used this code:
Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As
Single, Y As Single)
    x1 = z.X

  I want that my menubar captions must NOT wrap to a second line when
the form is resized to very small size. Is it possible with the
standard menubar?
TIA,

   I'm converting DOS tables that are in Ascii format & tab delimitated .
They're all in the same folder all have the same table name as the windows
DB (Mysql)  with a .Txt extension.
Here's the code:

hi, i had used the dollowing code
Private Sub Form_Load()
  Dim TicketFile As Long
  Dim TempTicket As String

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Over 100 Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) have signed an
online petition that demands Redmond resume development and support of
"classic" Visual Basic, a-k-a VB6. The MVPs are calling for all VB

I have a VB6 application that is using alot of .ocx controls. Now the
problem is when I move the mouse over the form containing the standard
controls and the .ocx controls, the mouse pointer changes to hour glass
on the .ocx contols (but still allows me to do everything e.g. ...

Hello Group,
I have a VB app which includes a UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) clock.  It
has to be configurable to account for different time zones and daylight
savings time.  Once the user selects these settings, I need to keep them

I am making an app to pair players together.
If I enter 4 for 4 players I want it to open 4 windows for name entry
and such.  If I enter for 2 I want it to open 2.  How do I do that?  I
am very new to vb programming.

I have a private variable in my Form
Private sField as String
In the Form_Load event,
sField = Left$(sMyTable, Len(sMyTable) - 1)

Is it possible to center the text in a msgbox?  And if so how?
Thanks James.

I'm trying to read a Tab Delimitated Table from (DOS) in order to convert to
MySql.
Here's the code:
   Open "F:\Zip\Ar-Custo.Txt" For Input As #1

I am dealing with text fields for which I need to control the format.
There are various fields and each of them as its specific format.
For example, if [Phone Numbers] must look like (+XXX YYYYYYYYY), I
want to make sure that the content matches it. I know I can parse the