VB Forum / General 2 / August 2005

Have a window emulating app
allowing access to a huge main frame
somewhere in Texas.
After twenty minutes of no activity,

Is there a simple way to create clones (duplicates) of form and class
module instances in VB6? I could write a Clone() method for each
form/class that simply bulk copies all of its member data to a new
instance. However, I am hoping that there is a more elegant solution,

I am talking to a few people about working with me on a VB6 project what are
some good questions to ask (have you been asked) to sound out knowledge of
VB6 with out being insulted ;-)

I have a ListView with View = lvwReport and FullRowSelect = True.
My ListView has only a couple of items so below there are several empty
rows. If I click on a not empty row the row gets selected. Even if I do a
double click the row still remains selected. However if I double ...

Anyone know the
(a) maximum number of data objects (for instance, String objects) that can be
stored in a VB6 Collection object?
(b) maxiumum number of bytes that can be stored in a Collection?

I'd like to launch hundreds of instances of the same program, setting a
switch on the shell command line to point each instance to monitor a
different web page. I can do this already as I don't know of a way in VB to
have hundreds of threads running in one program to achieve this ...

Hi I just can't seem to get CreateFile() working properly under WinXp.
It all compiles OK with no erors but whenever I run it the result is
always -1.
This happens when I definately know the file is present.

I have a menu program that starts other programs...
Shell ProgramPath, vbNormalFocus
No problem... BUT, what if I want to open a link on the desktop?
I need to be able to open the Regional and Language Options from the

We have a system where a VB app is controlling an instrument. Often the
user can start a task that takes long enough that the PC can go into
hibernation while the instrument is busy. When that happens the results
from the instrument activity does not get recorded properly and the ...

I need to control the automatical bitblt which occurs if I set the
Autoredraw  property of my picbox to TRUE. More exactly I must do some
work just before Autoredraw. Any ideas how to accomplish this?
Thanks,

Thanks in advance for the help.
This is in visual basic .net 2003
I have a form with a series of text boxes named textbox1, textbox2,
textbox3, ...

           i am in the middle of writting a messenger program which uses
display pictures similer to those of MSN.
At the momment the server open the requested file using Open filename as #1
for input

Thanks to Mike Williams my routine is almost working.
I need help with the last piece in the puzzle.
I need to access a physical drive (actually a CF card) to perform raw byte
reads.

good day!!!
how can i integrate barcode reading in my sample vb database
application program. i use keyboard presently but i also want to
enhance the program's capability.any help would be grealy appreciated.

I'm having a problem with my app hanging on close.
I have a timer set to every 30 sec's, fetch a web page which I then
parse for some info to display. When I click the close button my app
hangs, sometimes for just a minute or so, sometimes for ages or