VB Forum / General 2 / August 2005

I have written a vb6 program that I can run using remote desktop.
Btn_Click event
is it possible to determine if the button was clicked on the computer or
from the web using  remote desktop.

My! Doesn't a year fly!
Once again it's time to wish Mike W a happy nth birthday where
n>10 and n<=100 (I'm guessing here :-).
Mike, have a good one.

Using vb6, I would like to have either a text box or label display the
current time in UTC format...I can't seem to find any instructions or code
snippets on how to accomplish it...
Any help appreciated...thanks.

I couldn't post in the registry threads for some reason.
Here is my question: How do you dump the entire registry of a local or
remote server into a file. I wish to dump the registry on a daily basis
and check for differences. I see code here and there for reading from

If you right click inside a TextBox, a Windows popup menu pops up
with standard menu items Cut, Copy, Paste, etc.
Is there a way to add your own menu items to this popup menu?
Thru API calls maybe??

Here is a simple VB6 program I put together last night.  When the Build
button is clicked
the program will create a .BAS file containing VB6 CONSTant definitions for
all the colors displayed.  You select two colors.  The program generates the

I incorporated a function in my code that whenever I use a string variable
in an sql statement if the string contains a single quote it will encase it
in double quotes else single quotes.
Queston: How do you handle a string with contains both single & double

Using VB 6 pro Access 2000 win XP
I generate  SQL code in Access and then paste it into my VB program. The
poblem is I have to shorten the SQL lines of code in vb
I guess there is a limit of how long a string can be in VB. Is this true? Is

How can one get the Date String from a DateSerial number ? (In VB5)
Tnx
George

I've just been messing around with the Mouse_Event API so that I can
simulate mouse button clicks in code and according to the AllAPI people
the coordinates are in units of (believe it or not!) "mickeys"! They
don't say exactly what a "mickey" is, but simply say "A mickey is the

I am fairly new to VB6 and have developed an app that does some file
searching.  Everything works fine except when I switch to a different open
app or window while my target app is searching.  It will not properly update
or refresh its form until it is done searching.  I have ...

I'm trying to write a program that will convert between Centimeters, Inches,
Millimeters, and Twips.  I'm trying to get it so that if any of the boxes is
change, the others will automatically adjust their values in kind.  I can't get
it to budge.  I was able to do this with only one ...

I am trying to call ATL Com in VB that takes unsigned int as a
parameter. But VB doesn't support unsigned datatype. Can anyone help me
to get out of this trouble?????????
Byeeeeeeeeee

I have some logs that are generated with colors by using ansi codes.
Normally I "tail -f" by telnetting to a linux box and seeing them from
a "bash". I then see pretty colors ("green" for OK, "red" for ERR,
"yellow" for WARN, and so on).

I have a Table called TableField that has the table names, fields and
Data type of all the tables and fields in the database.  They are set
up as follows:
Table: TableField