VB Forum / General 2 / July 2005

I created a program using VB6 under WIN 98. The program uses an ado
database.
When I use the package and deployment program in VB6 on this program
and then install it on a machine with XP Pro on it, I get the Provider

At runtime I would like to be able to restart the program with a different
value in the command property.
I thought maybe you could just call form_load(dataname) with a value in
dataname that would trigger a desired effect but VB apparently doesn't allow

I have develloped an application in VB. This application communicates
with the outside world via RS232 link. The link controls some
machinery.
When my computer hibernates and resumes the communcation will have to

Is it possible to take a screenshot of a portion of a window in your
program, and then encode in a common graphics format such as JPEG or
GIF?
I want to take a rectangular snapshot of a window, with 4 corners of x

Given two dates, Date1 and Date2, I want to find how many
February 29th there are between Date1 and Date2.
thanx

In my VB app, I pass Int-Values to a C-DLL with the following sub
Public Declare Sub Init Lib "mydll.dll" _
(ByVal var As Integer)
The strange thing is that if the "Compile to P-Code" option is checked,

How can I detect a file's Compatibility setting? I particularly need to
know if it's set to 256 color mode, but I'd also like to know if it's
set for some particular operating system. Is this info available via the
API, is it in the Registry, where is it and how can I get at it?

I am using a custom control that provides the ability to add several
"buttons". The problem I have is the control can be assigned a What's this?
help index value but the "buttons" cannot. If I can figure out if the What's
this? help has been invoked, perhaps by the icon value, ...

VB6 Pro win XP
I have a program I would like to copy protect. Is there a good way to do it
with code, or should I rely on a 3rd party product?
TIA

I have a feeling, that I can se it in many Microsoft's and third party
applications, but when I started to use it, I learned that it has many
limitationst:
- the content of the listview cannot be directly printed,

I am running Visual Studio 6 SP5 on XP Pro, and when I try to use the font
property on labels, text boxes or any control, I get problems.

I am a self taught excel programmer and am embarking on development of
software for mass worldwide distribtion. Is there any reason why i should
consider using VB (which I have never used) over VBA within excel. Seems to
me excel can do everything I need and I understand that ...

using vb 6 pro and win xp pro.
Is there a way to print to the printer using printer.print commands and know
when you need to start a new page and also a way to keep
records together on the new page. I have data that reaches the end of the

Snippet below downloads in bin only.
What needs to be modified so that
I can download in ASCII also?
      ITC.Execute , "GET " & Chr(34) & strDownload & Chr(34) & " "

Using an InputBox, there is the option to *suggest* text (Default).  It appears highlighted and can
be accepted or replaced by the user.  I am attempting to create my own input form which has one Text
Box, one command button (cmdAccept ) and a simple label to tell the user to ...