VB Forum / General 2 / April 2005

How can I retrieve the devicename of the defaultprinter?
I made a combobox with all printers in it, but I would like to set it
standard to the default one.
Dim prt As Printer

When I use the mkdir command the directory created is read only, making it
worthless.  Does anyone know why or how to work around this?
Thanks
Dick

I had done programnming in GW BASIC and Assembly 10 years back, when I
was in school. Later, I learnt C,C++, Core Java and COBOL. Will my
knowledge of BASIC hold me in good stead while learning Visual Basic?
Is there a resemblance between the two?

I'm trying to develop a system running on a PC, consisting of a Visual
Basic GUI connected to a Visual C++ win32 console running in the
background (which is doing most of the processing work).  Inputs
entered to the GUI will be processed by the win32 console and results

Greetings group.  In searching for alternatives to the bug-laden
OpenURL method of the Internet Transfer Control I ran across the
following code, compliments of FreeVBCode.com.  It works great for
functional URLs, but not being adept with its Win API calls

Is there any way of telling if there is a modal form loaded?
I have lots of them, but as timers keep tunning in my main form I need
to hold off processing until the modal form is unloaded.
The only way that I have found is to load a non modal form and see if

I have 5 text boxes on a form which I need to use the Enter Key to move
from one to the other, instead of the Tab Key. Can any one help please?
Thanks.

I am trying to create a word document using VB6 and need to use columns
breaks but cant seem to find out why my code doesnt work the way it
should. It creates a column break but when i trying to go back to one
column to finish off the document it takes the second column and puts

I am fiddling with the following code:
in the form:
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim Str

Hi everyone! Can you tell me how to interact with internet explorer,
like make it go to certain site, filling some information, click on
certain button, or get certain text from the web site that is being
viewed in internet explorer?

Is there a way to get a program to open the cd drive in VB?

I get a run-time error 1004 at this point in my macro code that was
generated automatically:
Range("L1").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _

I am working in VB5.
How do you mimmick Visual Basic's putting an Index argument at the front of
the variables passed to an event when making your own control? This sounds
kind of confusing so I'll simplify it.

Soz bit of a newbie question, how do i delete a record in a random access
file??
tia
bhav

i have an application that uses Excel automation extensively, and
which works fine on the majority of the computers where it's used.
however, on a couple of computers the excel application won't quit
when my application is done.  on the problem computers, i've run a