VB Forum / General 2 / December 2005

I'm using MFC for my program wherein I have to write the R,G,B values
of an image into a .bmp file. I've given the values after the BITMAP
HEADERS are set.
But the result is not correct.

It would be great if there was a routine such as IsWeekend() or IsWeekday()
to check whether a date is a weekday or weekend.
Can someone suggest the tightest, most efficient test for this?
I'm currently doing this to test for WeekEnd:

I was wondering if it is possible to create/download a program that
could perform an alwyas on background search on a particular folder. I
need it to action a procedure when a specified file is created in that
folder.

I have the following scenario that I am encountering a problem with:
A VB 6 service application that instantiates a VB outproc server, which
in trun instantiates a C++ outproc server.
When the system has been rebooted, the C++ outproc server starts (it

Hello Mike Williams and other good souls,
I want to wish you a happy Christmas and happy programming in the New Year.
Peter Nolan.
Dublin.

My code contains a sortdatearray routine that appears to be getting bogged
down.
It needs to sort an array of dates, about 10,000 of them.
I can make coffee and watch a sitcom before this routine finishes.

I am writing a VB6 program that creates a colored and formatted RTF
document by directly generating the RTF  encoding around bare text. I
would like to be able to use at least 5 or 6 different colors, but if I
specify more than 3 some internal process - presumably activated when I

Has anyone had the NodeClick event not firing in VB6 with the VB5
Treeview control?
It fires correctly when using the cursor keys to select nodes but there
is nothing when i click a node.

Hi grp
I have a problem with an app accessing a mysql database. On the developer
computer all is running a-ok. On the target computer I get an error when
connecting to the db. Dev.comp. is accessing db on targetcomp thru

I am writing a Visual Basic program which may run a long time. The main part
of the program is shown below.
I also have a command button which is supposed to unload the form and ent
the program.

I have an array which contains 81 cells.  When I determine that the value in
a particular cell should be changed, I notify the user about that (msgbox,
etc.).  On leaving, I would like to cause that cell to receive focus (that
is where the cursor will be on return).  Is there an ...

I was asked to write a program which will be able to run VBScript code
which has been stored as a Memo field in an Access Database.  I have no
idea where to begin with this.  I could kick off a VBS file, but they
don't want that.  My thought was to read in the VBScript into a string

New to VB6.  Please pardon my lack of experience...
I have a list box which has long entires which cannot fit across the box
width.  Can I put a horizontal scroll bar onto the bottom of a list box and,
if so, how do I do it?  I tried adding one to the list box on the form view

I am Studying Visual Basic 6 and came across this bit of information :
****** URL of snippet is
http://www.vbexplorer.com/VBExplorer/file_dialog/file_dialog.asp
******* beginning of snippet ******

I can't get VB to run in the IDE. It calls the dll just fine when
compiled. No posted solution works. I have tried
void __stdcall and everything posted. The problems is, my declaration
appears to de exactly what everybody says should work but it does not.