VB Forum / General 2 / November 2005

I remember I did this once before, but maybe not here. I have a version
of the Sims 2 that is originally in Thai, and comes with instructions
for changing the language so that it can be installed properly. I do
what it says (copy all the files on the first disk to my hard drive, go

I am using VB6 and have created a settings menu/form for access via the main
app form.  I would like to execute a process in the main form, once the
settings menu/form has been unloaded.  Is there anyway to do this?
Thank you

What is the difference between a PictureBox and an Image?
Thanks

I recently have decieded i better become computer literate, and in the 80's
, I used to do a tiny bit of programming in the 'old' Basic. I remember the
last thing i did was a   Bingo  Program for an arcade, It was summat like
..(I know its daft, but it makes my point, ok)

The subject says it all...
I am trying to put an overlay on a existing image. I've tried so far to
put the image in a picturebox1 and with an other picturebox2 as a
container for some labels() put text in the first picturebox1. The image

I have a java application which is rather complex. This is an
university environment but I soon found that non-programmers would go
to any lengths to decompile the code, make changes to method and
variable names and then claim it as their own. Also java executables,

How do I get the editor to scroll with the mouse wheel????

I'm trying to make calculations with variables, but somehow I don't get the
results I expect. In a form with just a button that divides 1 by 40.3399 I
get the wring result. Anybody that can tell me what is wrong ?
Option Explicit

fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
I am getting this a lot. I need to do at least 5 times to successfully
compile
my program and make to a dll file. Does anyone know why I am getting ?

I noticed a post on here for a similar problem, but there had been no
reply and the post was quite old.
Please could someone see if they can help me out? Where I work we
maintain close to 3000 project plans, the data of which gets uploaded

The handle (hdc) associated with VB6 is according to the help file an
integer
Yet all the API calls use it as a long.
This has all worked in the past but now (under win98) I seem to be

Could someone please help a newbee vb programmer with a question that
is driving me crazy.  I am trying to understand a line of code that is
supposed to return the domain portion of a valid email address.  The
following code works!

We are developing an application in VB6. We have used TabStrip control
to display multiple tab pages with different information. We need to
either enable/disable or show/hide a tab page for certain conditions,
which appears to be impossible with TabStrip control.

It's me again.
Does anyone know how to extract the default e-mail & browser from the
Registry?
I've written a Desktop control panel, and I thought that it would be

Hi basic gurus!
I "inherited' an application written in VB6. On some client machines it
works fine, on some throws "Runtime error 5" or  "Runtime error 70".
This is a compiled application, running it under debugger on client