VB Forum / General 2 / October 2005

I have Win2K with SP4 with Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition with
SP5 installed. This has been running for some years. I now have a
need to install VB4 Professional Edition on the same machine. Can this
be done without effecting VB6?

With the help of this newsgroup, I wrote a program for a friend who has a small business.  I
installed the program on his *home* PC which is connected to his business location about a tenth of
a mile away.  He said the two PCs are connected by phone line.  Stopping at the garage, ...

Hi, im looking for code that parses a webpage, say for something.exe or
anything.exe.
Possibly output it to a text file.
Basically I need an agent to parse a webpage for a .exe then scan the

I have a modal form consisting of a datagrid used to display the rows of
a physician name and credentials tables. This allows the user to input
new rows as well as change fields within existing rows. While it is a
very simple process it meets the needs of the design and all is ...

I put a Richtext control on my main form but was not happy with it for my
purpose.  I subsequently removed it and replaced with just a text control.
When I used the wizard to create the distribution files it STILL referenced
the RickText.OCX in the visual basic project file and ...

I'm new at using databases in connection with VB6, and I have the following
question:
I use a ADODC-connection to an Access-database
Databasename: Music.mdb

Dim objData as Variant
objData = <a string>
objXLWorkBook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range(<whatever>).Value = objData
If objData is a string around 200 characters long, all is fine and my

how can I disable the mousewheel event in a combobox. With the command Call
SystemParametersInfo(105, 0, 0, 2) It is diabled in a form (with
scrollbars), but not on a listview or combobox.
thanx

Just a few questions about DirectX
1) is it possible to use DirectX9 from VB6?
2) are there any restriction on the version of Windows, e.g. is it
limited to XP

ALl - Can you tell me how to format and line up numbers in a ListBox?
I am trying to list a series of amounts, right justified, in a ListBox
(so they align on the decimal point.
To complicate matters, I need to leave enough space on the right for

   Does anyone have source code about exporting data to text file in
visual basic 6 ? Also , user can select save location and edit file
name.
    Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know how to make this code run???
'[CODE SECTION]====================================
Sub waitForPageLoad()
Dim IExp As InternetExplorer

I created a VB 6 app to print labels to a Zebra LP2844 thermal label
printer.  However, there is a long pause between every label printed.  Is
there something I can do in my code to speed up the printing and eliminate
the pause between page gaps?

What does it mean to say a font is a "system" font?  How can i
determine (in vb 6 code) if a particular font on a machine is a
"system" font?
thanks,

I am trying to copy the cell contents in an MSFLXGRD control (using
VB5) into Excel, retaining the foreground colors of the text and
numbers.
I have tried using the Clipboard.SetText msflxgrd1.Clip command, but