VB Forum / General 2 / November 2005

I have an image on the clipboard that I need to save to a tiff file.
I know I can do this
SavePicture Clipboard.GetData(vbCFBitmap), but there doesn't seem to be
a VB constant for tiff (e.g. vbCfTiff).

The VB6 SP6 runtime library corrupts files in yet another violation of
MSDN's specifications.  I haven't tested VB .Net but the MSDN wording is
unchanged and it looks very suspicious.
In English, VB6 "Get Statement" for a file opened in BINARY

I download call32v2.zip to be able to use the call32.dll to a call a
32bit dll's functions from a VB3 program. But can't manage.
Can anyone give me an example of VB3 code, where you have declared and
called a function in a specific dll, of course using call32.dll? Let's

I have a data widget grid in my main form which is bound to a microsoft
database table.
I'd like the last column of the grid to show the value of a color,
preferably in hexadecimal. Ex:

Hi , instead of using number, can i use string as array index?
eg  sarray (mon) = 10
thanks

I created my .exe file, it worked fine. The next day (after a reboot) when I
click on the .exe it kicks off what looks like a windows message that says
"please wait while Windows configures {my project name}"  then it'll ask for
vbinstaller which its looking for on a CD.   Anyone ...

I am using the Package and Deployment Wizard to compile and produce a
distribution product.
In the compilation process, files may be include with product. Is it
possible to include folders, i.e.

I would like to write an application where I can prompt the user to
complete a form, that has potentially hundreds of questions.  The
questions are stored in a flat-file with a specific format:
xxx|Text Question 1

The new [type].TryParse command in VB in the new VS 2005 is great, but it's
throwing an exception when the variable targeted to hold the result has a
value of DBNull.Value.  For example, suppose in the following code that dr is
a DataRow for an existing table, and it contains a ...

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I have a VB6 app that requires the user to be logged in as an administrator
or with administrative privileges during setup. I made the setup with PDW.
If the user tries to install while logged in as anything less (power user,
user, guest), I'd like to give the user a friendly, ...

Dim Index As Integer
Filename = App.Path & "\people.dat"
Printer.FontSize = 12
Printer.FontBold = True

I have a VB6 app that requires the user to be logged in as an
administrator or with administrative privileges during setup. I made
the setup with PDW. If the user tries to install while logged in as
anything less (power user, user, guest), I'd like to give the user a

Dim Names(50) as String
Dim OtherNames(50) as String
Dim ResultNames(50) as String
Is there a function that do next?

I wonder is there any API function that will allow me to get the number
of seconds past since last user action (mouse click or a keystroke).
For example a screen saver starts after 10 min of inactivity. I need to
get number of seconds since last user action.