VB Forum / General 2 / July 2005

is there a way to bold/underline text in the textbox like MS Word? or any
third party ocx?

Just thought I'd post a little note about something to be wary of when
testing printer object code in the VB IDE which can cause confusion if you
are unaware of it (anyway, it certainly had me confused for a while). The
problem occurs if you run some test code that alters various ...

I worked for several years with VB5 back in the late 1990s.
Question: from a programmers point of view and the programming skills
required, would you consider the transition to VB6 or VB.NET to be a
simple one for a person who has programmed with VB5? I also have 6

Using the following code, I am reading an excel sheet with 10 tabs to 10
other sheets in 1 file
Private Sub Form_Load()
gsheet = 1

Is there anyway in VB to determine if a file is a self extracting zip
file?

This is all in VB6:
I have some code inside of an ActiveX DLL class module that
essentially boils down to this:
  private m_X as long

I have an application that I am developing using the Microsoft Common Dialog
control.  When I execute my code to display the dialog box for the user to
select a printer it prints fine.  The problem is that if the user selects a
printer that is not the default, the o/s then makes ...

Can someone please give me some code sample on how
to do this in VB?
So far I tried two methods and I've read of a third one that uses
"DIR" but I don't know how to write the "DIR" method.

I have 2 different programs with 2 different databases.
The first database where i have just the new table without data and the
second one where i have all.
I must take all data from the second database and insert in teh second.

Can somebody explain why Format("65083-12", "") returns "12/1/1547"?
It seems like Format tries to convert it to some kind of date but I
don't the clue.
Sinna

What does $(AppPath) mean and all those other paths in the setup.exe maker.
And which one do i use to go to:
WINDOWS/start menu/programs/startup/app.exe

Do you have a vb code for create a mini picture with big picture jpg
exemple
           i have a big picture aaa.jpg -----------> create automaticly a
new picture bbb.jpg (10%)

My customers who run my application on WIN98SE report out of memory errors
(they had lots of RAM) whenever they were within the application and were
running a critical calculation feature. I have developed the VB6 app within
the WIN NT and WIN XP environments. I decided to get ahold ...

Hi, i want my program to start up with windows. So i am just going to put it
in the start up folder in the start menu. How can i tell my setup exe to put
it there? Or, is there another way to get the program to start up with
windows?

When I run this code in ActiveX control which has a property Cols,
I get error 61: Object variable or with  block variable not set
I have tried adding
Set Propbag = New PropertyBag