VB Forum / General 2 / April 2005

I have a long process where I use a progressbar and update the caption of
the form with the % complete.The  problem is that the caption in the taskbar
does not get updated. I can get it done by hiding and showing the form but
the form then flickers. If the form is minimized it ...

I have my first application written and all is working just as I want.
The final step is for me write the section of code to terminate the
program.  What is the best way to do this?
Should I unload every form?  (How do I check for loaded forms?)

After i put the message into the Queue "MQSeries", i delete the files
from the current directory using
FileSystemObject.Delete("folde­rName"). This object throws "Permission
is denied Error".

How do you call a Sub that is located on Form1 from Form2?
I get a compile error:
Method or data member not found.
thanks

Hi all, i am after a little help in working out how to use a vb app to
terminate another app. I have a program i wish to run and after 5 hours i
need to terminate it.
Any help appreciated

I am having a VB application for visitor Gate pass.The application
using MS Access database.  That application is having a button to print
the GATE PASS of  the visitor.
Till now it is working fine. As there is some problem in the Windows 98

I can print to the text box on the second form ok,  but when I try to pass a
variable from  form1 to form2 it shows up as empty on form2.
What's the trick?
thanks

I want to take the text entered into a text box and convert it to
Unicode. So I can compare it to data read in from a file.
Thanks
Stan

I hope someone has an idea of how to fix this.  I
have been trying for several days and I am out of
ideas.
First, a quick explanation and then I will go into

All,
VB6 (SP6)
I need to place a "RaiseEvent" statement within an event handler in a
ActiveX class.  First, is this possible?  If it is, how?  I'm batting

Can anyone please help with a problem.
My application uses an Access database and if I use my exit buttons setting
db to nothing the database
is closed down correctly.

I am trying to piece together some Visual Basic code to run a script
within Sybase PowerDesigner. I have used arrays, but without keys, and
understand that Collections are much faster.
My problem is that the version of Visual Basic I am using doesn't

In a VB6.0 app I created an ADO recordset that is not linked to a
database.  There is actually a good reason for this, but now I find
that the .sort method no longer functions for my recordset.  End result
I'm going for is to populate a datacombo with a data concatenated from

I'm playing with the point property to return the colour of a random pixel
Pnt_Colour = pbox_Map.Point(RandomX, RandomY)
Playing with three different pictures, i've come up with i think three
different colours of background black.

Does any know how to get hardware information about a machine?  Trying
to retrieve the number of memory slots available/used, pcmcia cards
installed (if any), other slots being used, etc.  I know how to get
basic information (total memory, CPU, etc) but not the above?  I'm