VB Forum / General 2 / November 2005

I recently wrote a simple application calling shutdown.exe to automatically
shut down my comp. Everything works fine but only if a user is logged on.
Can anyone give me a hint how to create an application that runs from
schduled tasks or any other way, and would turn -off a computer ...

I'm currently working on a chatprogram for LAN's, called DirectChat.
It uses a form (frmMain) to list all the users that are currently
online. For the conversations, it loads a new form (frmChat) based on an
other form (frmChatTemplate). In other words, frmChat is an array of 500

I am a complete beginner about to try the waters with vb.  Can someone
help me?  Why are the keywords and names of fields in Upper and lower
case?  Some variable names etc.  require you to constantly be pressing
the shift key.  Is this just a convention or is it a necessary part of

I'm building a small script for an excel datasheet and I need to know
how to do this:
I have a form with 50 buttons.
userform1.cb_1.caption = cells(....)

Does VB6 come with a feature to let you know what function called the one
you stopped in a run break?
For example, suppose that I place a break in Function HereIAm(). When I
debug run and it breaks within this function, is there a view somewhere that

I'm in the process of breaking down a huge project into several components
as activex dlls. However, everytime I make a change to any of those dlls,
all the projects that use them get their references broken. I need to remove
that reference, save the project, close it, open agan, ...

I have a collection of items.  Each item contains its own collection of
subitems.
If I wish to remove an item from the top level collection is it necessary to
remove all the lower level items first to prevent any memory

I 've placed some text labels on a form and when I resize the form, I want
to labels on the right to wrap to the next row so that nothing is hidden
like a web page.
Thanks for your help.

Tricky this. I want a user to enter a password so I can pick upstring. This
could be a textbox or input, BUT I would like the user tosee a row of bullet
points rather than their password. Can it be done? Help appreciated.

I want to write an image editing app. I'm happy writing this program but one
thing evades me and will be a crucial feature. How can implement an
"Undo/Redo" feature? Other than saving the image to memory everytime a tool
is applied (which doesn't sound a good idea), I really ...

I have a problem and I don't know if it's a bug or if I'm doing
something wrong.
I have a form with a textbox and a button. In the "validate" procedure
of the textbox I have some code. What the code does isn't important.

I just upgraded to XP and noticed that VB 6 has buggy intellisense. I
read through old posts but did not find any solutions, only reports of
similar problems. The most recent was dated a couple of years ago, so
I'm hoping the problem has been addressed.

Having a hard job finding the answer to this one:
I've declared a dynamic array like this:
Dim MyArray() as String
I pass the array to another subroutine which reads a file and fills the

when i change icon id in resource file to string value, then this icon
replace my compiled exe icon. is this is a bug?
sory for my bad english...

In an effort to understand API's, I am trying to get the GetSystemTime
API to pass data to my Command1_Click() routine.I have not figured
how to get the data or address the API.
I could use a little help from someone with the time to fill