VB Forum / General 2 / November 2005

I am having trouble getting the printer common dialog to set the printer
object correctly. It all worked fine under win98 but will not work under
 XP.
Printing graphics via the hdc still seems ok.

Hi, I try to protect a piece of Sofware for each user different. Is someone
here who is familier with MD5
cryt and encryt ? Is it possible to use similier or same functionality in
Visual Basic 6.0 and how ? Thanks for help.

I am trying to create a program that generates the fibonacci series
numbers between 2 and 1,000,000,000 (1 billion). The user enters in an
number in to a textbox (between 2 and 1 billion), and the program then
outputs the Fibonacci series up to that number in a list. The program

I'm trying to make the jump between VB6 and .Net so I downloaded the beta
Express version of VB 2005.  The doc says the locked property for a textbox
is now readonly at runtime.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/19z8k5by.aspx

Is it possible to change the selection background color in a textbox?
Einar

OK guys, this is my first real attempt at VB.  Actually my return to writing
programs since 1998.  I've got an old DOS QB app that I am converting to VB
6.0.  Really simple file formatting app.
the INPUT statement is behaving oddly.  Picture a CSV file that looks like

I have a last problem with a logo. I need to print it on top of a photo. The
original logo is an EPS file in RGB and has a transparent background.
Because I can't print this logo via Printer.Paintpicture so I have saved it
as a GIF format.

How to create a VB project that minimize to the systray an application
external to VB?
The application already has the capability to "minimize to tray", i
tried the following api, i can MINIMIZE or HIDE but NOT minimize to systray.

I'm using a winsock control in my app so im wondering do i need to
include mswinsck.ocx file in distribution package of my app.
Im wondering will my app be running normally on every comp with win xp
os if i dont include mswinsck.ocx file in setup package?

In VB6, is there an easy way to find out if a procedure is never called or
an object never used?  I inherited a fairly sloppy system and I think there
is a lot of this kind of stuff that I'd like to clean up if possible,
without looking thru reams of code.

I had heard from one of my friend  but ODBC  could be created at run
time
i tryed a lot for this but was unable to do this
please  any one out there could help me out with this

I am starting a new VB6 project that is in need of a listing output just
like in Windows Explorer Details view, with the adjustable width columns and
column headings.  It won't be for a folder or file listing, but rather data;
however, this view would be ideal for my app.

Does anyone know how to make a game auto program that will lpay a game
for you with you doing anything like for pogo.vom or yahoo.com cames?
Or would anyone know where i could look to possibly find the code for
one to mess with so i can learn to make my own ?

Is there an alternative to line input or does it have an option so it
reads text up to a CRLF instead of a (CRLF or LF)?
I tried reading the whole file to a string using binary access read,
but the file is huge and vb6 gives me a 'out of string space' error, so

Hopefully, a simple question... Garmin outputs track altitude data in
float-32 format (little-endian, 1 sign bit, 8 exponent bits, 23
mantissa bits).
I can get the binary track data from a Garmin gps and extract lat/long