VB Forum / General 2 / August 2005

I'm writing an arcade game and am pretty far along in VB6 with bitblt,
so if there is a way this can be done without rewriting the entire game
using direct x and/or .NET let me know...
The game draws on the screen bit blitting onto a picturebox. Is there a

If the user chooses a different installation path from the usual offered
(C:\Program Files\....) does the PDWizard save this new path in the
Registry?
If so, where?

Anyone know of a free Zip/Unzip DLL's for use with VB6. I have been
told of Zip32.dll and Unzip32.dll but I can not find any docs for
them, or any sample code.
Thanks

I am looping through the drives and only want to proces those that are
harddrives and not CD, floppy, dvd etc.  What method do I use?
Here is my code so far... Trying to figure out what to put in place of the
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I'm writing a little VB6 app for my Windows 2000 web server. One of it's
functions is to periodically check whether the World Wide Web Publishing
service is still running, and if it isn't, start it going.
This is because sometimes I need to manually stop the service and forget

How can I connect object MSXML2.XMLHTTP with a progress bar to show how
much data already has been downloaded?
How to get size of dynamically created XML file from a remote HTTP
server?

Is anyone aware of the best control to use for displaying a very large
table.  Potentially the table will have up to 30000 columns but only 10
rows.
I could rotate it and therefore have 30000 rows but would prefer the large

Where might I find a program to display 4 digits like a slot machine window?
I need to input the starting number the final number the window displays.
It should show the 4 wheels spinning and stopping at the
number requested.

I wrote a program years ago using vb4 that has functioned without
problem until just recently.
Upon diagnosis, the following line of code, which checks for the
existence of a sub-directory and creates the directory if it does not

I am /trying/ to  get the hang of udt's and random access files.  When
I press F5, the computer creates the file "items.dat", that is 514
bytes long.  All hex $00. Would someone please show me where I'm
screwing up?

I have a line of code that causes error 5 during a Save to database routine.  It is caused by the
SetFocus because the form is not showing.  Is there a method to circumvent the line when the form is
not showing?  If I REM the line the program works with no error message, but then ...

hey all,
       i want to create a client application to connect to a MySQL server
on the internet so that multiple people may access the data from around the
world.

I lost the manuals that came with VB5. Can you buy new copies form MS,
or even better, download an electronic version from somewhere?
Thanks

I know this must be simple but I just can't get it I have a checkbox control
array
Check1(0) Check1(1) Check1(2)
I want to clear check1(0) and check1(2) when I check check1(1)

I don't know what am I doing wrong, by the message box, when I test
usercontrol in IE browser is empty.
Here is the code:
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