VB Forum / General 2 / September 2005

i am studying visual basic lang so i am doing an experiment on my
simple program:
Created a textbox and labeled Search. I want my program to search for
text field on the database file (.mdb), let's say, it finds the book

Some user told me that was the following error when I run an application (a
VB 6 application). The error is the following :
"RUN-TIME ERROR '_2147023782(8007045a).   Automation error"
Where does the problem come from ?

I've not done much with usercontrols.  Is there a way to "link" another
control on a form with a usercontrol?  I mean, if I want to change a
property of say a label on the form when an event in the usercontrol is
triggered?  Like, supplying the name of a label control that's on the

Good Day!
I am using MSXML4.dll with Visual Basic.
Attached below is my XML parsing code...
Private Function getMsgFromXML(xmlMsg As String) As String

 I am currently writing VB6 program and in my code, i use a piece of
code very frequently in various part of my program.
For instance, I use lot of :
 MsgBox "This is my first Visual Program with MySQL Database access"

Can someone tell me why this code works on 99 of my clients and doesn't
work on a single XP sp1 machine?
sub Main()
Dim sStr

I'm writing a small app to lock and unlock my pc at certain times. I'm
using the following to lock a Windows XP machine:
Private Declare Sub LockWorkstation Lib "User32.dll" Alias
"LockWorkStation" ()

I've just set a label to use my TrueType font in my VB6 app and it looks
horrible.  If I use this same font in say Adobe Photoshop it looks great.
It appears that VB6 does give a nice aliased look to the font that is why it
looks poor.

Is there the function to make the text in a label (when left clicked)
to open a website in the user's internet browser.
Thanks, James.

I'm newbie to VB language and I've got the following doubt...
I wrote a VB application with a call to a C custom dll compiled with
VStudio, and I solved a bug just scrambling lines in a data structure
declaration in common with the dll.

Briefly:
I have a Fortran DLL that returns a structure containing fixed-length
strings to a VB6 program. Fine for English characters, but not for
returning Chinese characters (using Chinese code page on the PC). In my

Is there such thing as a mouseover in VB?
My app uses images for buttons rather than the standard grey ones and I'd
like to be able to change the image to a semi-highlighted one if they move
their mouse pointer over it.

Am working on a VB5 project where I am talking to a c++ dll. When I am
in the development environment I get a "Bad Dll calling convention"
error(when calling the dll). But if I make an executable and run it, I
am able to pass the data.

Do I create something in VB that allows my VB app's data files, ini files,
etc to have my kind of icon rather than a standard windows icon (if my
extension is .duf or something like that) or is this done in my installer?
I use InnoSetup.

My name is chaithanya. I am using sle4428 memory cards and EZ100PU card
reader. I could not write or read data through cla,ins,p1,p2... can any
one tell me hw can I proceed.
cheers,