VB Forum / General 2 / April 2005

Does VB have some way to split a long line into multiple lines, perhaps
by ending it with some line continuation character?
Thanks,
- Joe

Does anyone know of a robust control for USB > mobile serial control.
Mscomm keeps returnin gibberish too often despite playing around with
every setting under the sun!
Preferably free :o)

This may be a stupid question, but i'm trying to start learning to
program with Visual Basic. I bought a book telling me how to do this
but i now see that i need the program Visual Basic 6.What is the best
way for me to get this.

How can I overlay text on the window of another applictions. I've seen
it done so I know its possible but I cant find how. Any help
appreciated.
/Michael

I have a multi-line text box, the contents of which I want to write to a
text file, but limited to 69 characters per line.
I have created a loop that writes the first 69 characters, but it
truncates the words.  Is there a better way to achieve my end result?

Realbasic has extrended it's offer for a free copy of RealBasic 5.5 to the
15th of April:

This is an addendum to the following thread in
microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion:
http://tinyurl.com/5vpms
I saw this referenced by Randy Birch in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:

I know it may sound stupid but I've set the style of my listbox to
checkbox so I have checkbox in my list. But I don't know wich property
to check to see if an item is check or not. And I want to check
automatically the item when i add it. Anyone can tell me wich property

How do I move a form up and down on the screen?  The form I have for this
project is higher than the screen size and I need to be able to move the
form up and down with a vertical scroll bar.

I am trying to discover how to arrange that a CD will start
automatically when put in a drive, as so many software offerings do.  I
want the CD to start a batch file automatically which will then create
directories and files and run some DOS appliactions

ok, i just cant figure this one out....
This works...
Private Sub OptionCombo_LostFocus(Index As Integer)
ReportSub = OptionCombo(0).Text

Has anyone encountered this? For some reason, references to _some_
variables with global scope seem to _sometimes_ require qualification
by the name of the module in which they've been declared.
in frmMain:

I need the Service pack 1, 2 and 3 for Visual Basic 5.0. But Microsoft
does not support Visual Basic 5.0 any more so I can't download them.
If you have the service packs (one or more of them) I would really
appreciate if send it to me

I have a little problem with printing a form in landscape mode. My code
is:
Printer.Orientation = vbPRORLandscape
Form_Lyd.PrintForm

  i wish to create a graph paper sort of feel in a picture box and
then plot the values on to it. i am using line method to draw the grid
in the pictue box.
now i wish that the grid should remain static in the background. i