VB Forum / General 2 / August 2005

I'm an ME student, trying to write a program to pull data off of a data
acquisition board.  I'm making good progress, though completly blind.  Its
been several years since I have written ANY code, of any kind, for any
purpose.  At the time I used C++ and Java, poorly, but that ...

I'm trying to use VB6 to read a Word Document, manipulate the text,
then output the results to a text file.  Parts of the document are in
non-English languages, and I can't get it to work properly.
Code snippet as follows:

I am trying to use of a SAX XML API.  I have implemented the ContentHandler
class as per the MSDN and have added a simple button as follows:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim reader As SAXXMLReader40

I have a link on my web-site to a 3rd party site, but it's not a normal
link. It's on a form that uses input parameters such as type, name and
value.
If anyone here knows what I mean, how can I add a link to my app that

I've three OptionButtons on the left side of my form and on the right side
of each OptionButton a TextBox. I set the TabIndex as follows:
 OptionButton1.TabIndex = 0
 OptionButton2.TabIndex = 1

Okay. This is about as "off topic" as you can get! Not only has it got
nothing to do with Visual Basic but, worse still, it has got everything
to do with RealBasic! Oh what the hell. It's worth the risk. Here goes .
. . . .

I am distributing freeware (a learning aid for writing mathematical proofs)
from my website www.dcproof.com . I am not a professional programmer.
A user wrote to me last week saying he got an error message about
RICHTX32.OCX failing to load when he tried to run my program. It ...

I a newbie to VB, though I have a fair bit of experience with other
languages.  My problem is that I need to access the command.  I have tried
using:
Private Sub ReportViewer_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As

I am going nuts. I pasted this sql from access 2000 into VB 6 pro
I got this one to work with 2 variables  lOrderID and iReadyToRentYesNo
sSQL = sSQL & " WHERE (((T_Computer_Status_Pointer.FKComputerStatusID)=" &
Str(lOrderID) & " )  And ((T_Computer_Service_Order.ReadyToRent)=" &

I'm looking for info on how to send text typed into a visual basic textbox
to another application, specifically yahoo messenger chat room. I've scoured
the net and have drawn a blank. I hope someone can help with what I hope is
a simple remedy.

I have a form with a animation (avi file) that I call everytime the program
is doing some task like executing a stored procedure in a sql server or open
a form.
Now I tried to add to this form a counter with a timer, but it doesn't

Has anyone experienced problems with events in VB6 projects running in the
IDE? An event is being raised, but the event handler procedure does not
catch the event and fire. The OS is Win XP sp 2.
Thanks.

Anyone knows how you perform file diffs in visual basic or even in
dos? Say I have file1 and file2 and want to see all the differences
between the two.
Cheers and thanks

Is is possible to use SHBrowseForFolder and specify a startup folder i.e
"c:\myfolder\mysubfolder"
Thanks

(today I'm full of problems...:) ),
I need to represent a serie of data in a graph like the graph in the
windows task manager where scroll the cpu-usage.
I have an array which contains some data, and I add a new value every 5