VB Forum / General 2 / April 2005

Is there an easy way, once the user has selected my program's Print
function, to create a listbox (or whatever) containing all the available
printers, and then the user selects the one he wants?  -Stan

Hi all --
I'm looking for a little guidance on some code I'm working on.  I'm
really just starting out with VB.NET but are catching on.  Right now,
I'm receiving the typical error of:

I need to put numbers and dates entered by user in textboxes into
double or date variables.  The trouble is that different users will be
in different locales and, hence, the numbers and dates will be in
different formats.

Been using:
RetVal = Shell("c:\Program Files\winzip\Wzzip.exe -t -Urpex yada, yada"
for many years to zip up files on the network.
This one path name is so long, I'm getting errors saying

how can i read with VB6 a database (sql)  located on the web (net)??
make changes and place the db back???
Thx

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I've tried in VS .net Architect and VS 2003, using framework 1.1.
anyone know why this would happen??
TIA

I hope someone can help me because I'm really stuck!
I'm using VB6, win XP sp2, and the problem is that I can't work on any
of my old projects. The project will open fine with "form1 (code)"
window open. However, if I try to view the form object for design, VB

When using VB6 sp6 on XP sp2, VB resizes the form window when I click the
right side window border.  It resizes (jumps) the window to width 11280 and
it will not resize by using the mouse or setting the form property. It will
not go past 11280.

This has got to be straightforward but its 10 years since I did any
GUI programming!
I have a vb6 app in which the user can call a "Print Setup" option.
This just resolves to a commondialog ShowPrinter call. (The

I have a number of text files with upto 60000 data points separated by
commas. I would like to replace the commas with carriage return. How do
I do this???
Regards,

I am working on a project that involves an Office-like interface; that
is, the user will be able to create objects such as textareas and be
able to resize, move, manipulate, etc. them. I am NOT asking someone to
go out of their way and write such a class for me, but I was wondering

Thanks Rick.  Your solution worked great!

I have an array of 100 text boxes.  If I want to insert or delete one of the
entries, I highlight the entry where the insertion or deletion is to take
place and click on the appropriate command button.  Problem is, How can I
programmatically determine which text box in the array ...

I have a big problem, I have a picture of a State with city name. When
I click with the mouse on a city I would to know X and Y value and
display a msgbox with the name of the city. I have used event
Mousedown, but if I change the screen resolution from 1024*768 to