VB Forum / General 2 / November 2005

What I want to do is have 2 pull down lists, for example a state pull
down list and a city pull down list. What I would like to have done is
when you select a state from the state pull down list then the city
pull down list will populate with all the cities from that selected

Thanks to Mike Williams and Henry, I was able to tweak their code to
create text that follows a circular path. The text runs around the
OUTSIDE of the circle with the fonts feet on the invisible circle.
Is it possible to tweak the code so the text will run INSIDE the circle

I'm confused over summik that has nowt to do with VB
On TV today was a quiz show, people invited to phone in the answer (Call is
expensive obviously). After watching many incorrect answers given, someone
phoned and gave the correct answer of 6638 and won loads of money.

Hi, I use a listview to update data from a server every second and it keeps
on blinking as the data is refresh and the cursor jumps to the first row
even if I click other row.
Is there other way to display data every second without blinking? thanks

I have a VB 6 application that uses the MSComm control to communicate
with a BootStrap Loader on a TI Chip.  I would like to create a DLL so
that other applications can call the BootStrap functions.  I have
created an ActiveX DLL and in order to test that this will work, I

Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding out to best
accomplish adding a custom time format or even creating one for that matter.
I have a need to add the times associated with video elements that are in
the format :  Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames  Where the frames ...

Hi, quick newbie question here!
I was wondering if anyone knew how to make a program copy its self, I
have this small mp3 player (using wm9/wm10 depending on which one's
installed). I want it to be able to install itself from a menu button

Has anyone tried Visual Basic 2005 Express?
Is it an improvement on some on the other versions of Visual Basic?
Regards Brian

I am trying to write a program that opens a text file and manipulates
the data.
I have managed to open the text file into a textbox1 as a string
i now wish to add code to a button that will find a line in the string

I've often trawl through the answers to some of the (to me) more obscure
and complex problems and thought "how do they know what's in that DLL".
Are there texts knocking about about what functions are held in which DLLs
and what parameters they require. I use the API viewer quite ...

I have a vb6 program that needs to determine either how it was run
(from menu or spawned from another program) - or - detect if a
particular process is running or not.
Can someone point me to some sample code?

Hi again.
I wanted to post this seperately:
In order to get the transparency mentioned in my last message, I can of
course simply use the background of the form (or whatever container) as the

Can someone please tell me what's wrong with the following query
I get the error 3075 "something is wrong with the syntax"
       sql_HTRecords = "select * from Orders where FPrint = '" & "J'" & _
       "AND HTDMAD > #" & Format$(datereminder, "mm-dd-yyyy") & "#" & _

I have a form called MyForm and I want to show it /MyForm.Show/
The name of form is comming from a parameter string and is saved in a
variable called FN
How I have to use the variable FN instead of for name to show the form?

Hi, I'm receiving input from my user that is HTML. I would like to find
the length of the data within the string, discounting the presentation
logic.
What I mean is that if the user types "<B>Hello</B>", I would like to