VB Forum / General 2 / August 2005

I sincerely appologize to you both for being overly sensitive to your
comments about my previous post.  I should have simply taken it as helpful
advice for future posts rather than being defensive about it.  Anyway, I
hope you will accept my apology and not consider this post as ...

I realize there are many ways to handle Apostrophes in sql statements. The
problem I'm having is comparing a string with an Apostrophe entered by the
operator against the field in the DB (ie Field: Customer Name against
entered name by operator which includes an apostrophe). The ...

When I try to view forms in Designer View, I get an error that reads:
[Resource lookup failed - infinite recursion detected.  Resource name:
Arg_NullReferenceException]
I can open the code, just not the designer.  I've tried repairing,

We often need to take pictures of the screens (windows) of VB 3.0
executables at run time. I thought it would be easier if there would
be a simple command like SavePicture Form5.Image, "Filename" which
would essentially do Ctrl-Print Scrn and put it in a bmp file. This,

I've got this code in my VB5 program's sub Form_Load()...
   If App.PrevInstance Then
       Beep
       End

Using MS Access with VB6.
Getting error on attempting to query by date using a variable string
"Fax_Today_Date".
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT * from psusa WHERE PSUSA.Call_Date =

We have an in-house written vb6 app, running on windows xp 10.09. When you

I have a VB6 application compiled to an exe that runs on a DOS (IBM)
machine.  Is there a way to compile it so that it will run on a Mac?  I
think there use to be something call P code that was slow but machine
independent.

When I was looking my codes and I Found something causes some errors.
some dimesions if it contains some  value like that
Dim MyDimension
MyDimension="2800+"

I want to execute a Shell command to run a MS Dos program, and then execute
subsequent commands in my program AFTER the Dos program finishes (it usually
takes about 20 seconds). How do I get the Shell command to run
synchronously?

Hi I am trying to use Acos in a calculation anybody able to help

I'm working on a free project (GNU/GPL) to help broadcast radio
stations to have a free professional software. (Let me say it is called
DSI Sound Station).
I have run into a problem for which I'm not able to know if there is a

Actually, I'm a pre-newbie. I'm getting Visual Studio 2003 for a VB.net
course I'm doing.
Once I've mastered (I hope!) VB, I'll be able to start creating a game I've
got in mind.

Occasionally I have had a problem with VB6 menus.  One or more options on
one or more menus disappear.  Usually on the View menu.  Often it is the
Toolbar option.  This is a problem, the only way I know to correct this
problem is to select Toolbar | Customize | Reset.  Which usually ...

Running VB6 and want a text entry field that has a transparent bg.  Noticed
that this isn't a problem for a label, but text boxes seem to have to have a
matt bg.
All I want is a flashing text cursor, no bg, so that the user knows that