VB Forum / General 2 / July 2005

I have a very long string. if I print it directly to the printer it gets cut
off. I need to know if there is a way to format the text so that it don't
get cut off.
thanks.

I want to be able to respond to a received email by sending 7 emails. This
is not possible using Outlook express message rules I am therefore trying to
use VB 6 MAPI.
I have managed to get it to work but occasionally 2 or 3 of my reply emails

Howdo everybody
I'm doing a form with a background that curves at the corners to give me a
round rectangle form, but it looks a tit at the moment because the default
form bg shows through.

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I'm using the 'Printform' method  to print a form to the default printer.  I
have discovered that over time, the 'PF Usage' (as reported by the
Performance tab in Windows Task Manager), is increasing to the point where
the system runs out of memory - applications will no longer ...

I'm not as familiar with the Windows API as I'd like to be, so I'd like
some guidance!
I have an application that generates text files to be processed by a
seperate application.  My application renames files, moves them to

I recently updated my ATI Radeon 9200 video driver and a couple of
optional patches from Microsoft (including .net framework sp1 I
think). I'm running VB6SP6. Now my fonts and form sizes appear
incorrectly.

may I ask a VB6 question:
How do I resize a form and it's components at run-time
with the mouse in VB6.
Example "digital clock" consisting of 1 form & 1 label field

i have big problem. I have new notebook and i can not isntall visual basic
6. When i run setup, there will new form appear and then when i click on
button next, the setup program crashed.
Can please somebody help me ?

I want to read from a sequential file that has about 10 fields.
I was thinking somthing like this:
FileNum = FreeFile
open file.txt for input as FileNum

About 6 months ago I wrote a function to change the case of files names in a
directory.  Not thinking to hard I used the "name" statement to change the
case, for example 'NAME  c:\FILENAME.TXT as c:\filename.txt'. This worked
fine on my pc (WinXP). At the time I thought it was ...

Can anyone tell me the correct syntax when using a variable to control
the color property?
This works ok:
If ABC2flash Then Label61.BackColor = Color.Yellow

I'm using VB6, and I need to make an autorun program for a CD and I'm
wondering what code I'd use to:
- Run a program (the installer)
- Check if the program's installed and then run it from the hard drive

I am trying to do something that -should- be simple, however there is
no code out there after searching a whole host of VB source sites, and
googling for 2 days.
I would simply like to programmatically, hidden from the users eyes to

Is it possible to create/fix/set (whatever) the modified date of a file?  In DOS, before Windows,
when a new program was installed, all files would have the same date and time. Can that be done with
VB 6 files?
Thank you,