VB Forum / General 2 / May 2005

Can I use mp3 files rather than WAVs in my VB app?
Do I have use special routines to do this?
Will basically any PC be able to play these sounds like WAVs do?
Thanks Mac

when creating a data file the max. filesize, under VB6, seems to be 2GB.
 Is that correct and if so, is there a way around that?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx,

when creating a data file the max. filesize, under VB6, seems to be 2GB.
 Is that correct and if so, is there a way around that?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx,

Hey all. I'm hoping to make a call from some ASP code out to a VB6 DLL.
I've done this plenty of times, but always in multi-tier environments
where I had control over app and webservers. Now, I'd simply like to
find an ISP to host my ASP pages. So ironically enough, this is new

I select an item in a ListBox, scroll the ListBox so that the selected item
is not visible anymore and select another control. Now I press the Tab key
until my ListBox gets active again. However, the selected item is still not
visible.

I've been told that if I'm using a number of pics and sound files I should
put and use them in a resource file.  Is this true?
Do you know of a good, short dummy's guide to implementing and using a
resource file, as the MS ones always seem far too convoluted.

I want to measure the area of some leaves with a scanner for a research
purposes.
can any one help me what is the start point?how can I do it?
thanks for any helps

Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a list of windows
locale ID's.
I can't seem to find reference anyplace?
i.e.

i am an older guy with some exp in cobol and fortran
have not programmed in years so i need some help
i am willing to pay someone for some help email me at alie4251@msn.com if
interested in helping me write some code thanks

I have a standard form that has the 'x' top right-hand corner and also has a
File/Quit (thanks to the Menu Editor).
What I'm trying to do is put a msgbox up after the user goes to File/Quit or
clicks the 'X' to say 'do you really want to quit Yes/No'.  If they click

I'm a new programmer and just rolled out my first big solo project for
business users.  It's driven home what I've discovered to be the first
rule of programming:
"Never assume the user is not a complete idiot"

I have an Access2003 database.  The table is named forties and it has two
queries (alphabetic and membernr).
My initial code in the form load is:
adoname.connectionstring = "provider = microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0;" & "persist

I am a beginner in vb (groans all round) but with a lot of experience in
QBASIC (more groans all round).
I'm writing under vbasic5 (slightly muted groans) a module which forms
an autostart file on a CD.  I've got it moving files around and then

I have a form called frmTerms with the following code. I am getting a
message when clicking the button cmdContinue "OBJECT VARIABLE OR WITH BLOCK
VARIABLE NOT SET" at the point indicated in the code. I have commented out
the execute line so it must be before this, also it runs ok to ...

Is there a utility that will allow me to compare 2 binaries that were
compiled to native code using VB6 in order to verify that the source
used to compile the files is identical?
Briefly, my predicament is this.. I need to compare a bunch of binary