VB Forum / General 2 / December 2005

I have a fixed dialog form (i.e. It only has a close button) loaded as
modal. If I programtically set the window state to minimized it does not
appear down on the "status bar". If I activate the form (by alt tab or
the task manager) then re-minimize it it appears on the status ...

I have a new system and have downloaded Blueyonder's PC Guard.  Every so
often I get a flashing egg timer next to my cursor.  I have no idea what this
is for or why it appears randomly.  It disappears if I reboot my machine.  
I suspect it is linked to one of the sites I visit.  I ...

I'm using a picturebox called pctChart in order to draw a chart.
It is important that I keep track of the x/y coordinates.
The pctChart is set to Scalemode vbTwips.
In pctChart.MouseMove, I have the form's caption show the X and Y as I move

I've looked at some other discussions where people have had similar
problems, but none of those worked.
I using VB6.0 with MS Access 2003.
After connecting to the database (which doesn't cause any problems), I

I understand that the help files for VB 6 requires support from the
MSDN library.
If I were to install the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 (3 Cd's),
would this provide the on line help that I am seeking?

I bought a piece of software and on loading it a message appears saying
Visual basic 6.0 tool kit has encountered an error and has to close.
I am running Windows XP and have service pack 2.
Does anyone know what is causing this please? Do I need to reinstall

  I'm trying to disable interupts in an event handler I have in a vb6
program.  I'm looking for either a dll to use that would disable them
or a way to be able to use x86 assymbly commands to do this.
Thanks

Is there a text box that can rotate or a way to print text rotated 90
degrees? I've been looking but can't find anything.

How to block webbrowser component from redirecting to a specific addres?
Thanks
Joppe

The image control supports "stretch" but as far as I can see Picture
does not. It has autosize which seems useless to me. Is there an easy
way of implementing a stretch type function for picture. (I want to use
picture because image does not support "handle")

Hello, is there someone who know's how to read and write data to a serial
port using visualbasic 8
thanx in advance

Can I "Open "TESTFILE" For Output As #1" if TESTFILE is on the web and
not resident on my computer?
I would like to be able to read the data in a .csv file into my project,
preferably without the user having to ensure the latest version of the

I'm trying to familiarise myself with VB6 quickly. but can't seem to
find a function list anywhere.  Anyone know of a handy reference?

I have seen a lot of discussion about this topic but not a solution.
If I missed it please let me know.
Essentially my problem is that I have a VB6 client that is dynamically
instantiating OCXs on a Child form inside an MDI object using

I wrote a simple program in Visual Basic Express (the one Microsoft
are making free for a limited time) and was wondering if this program
would run on another computer. If the user installed the program I
wrote then would there be anything missing such as a runtime file?