VB Forum / General 2 / December 2005

I have Visual Studio 6 Enterprise, which had pretty much the works
in 1998.
Suddenly noticed today in December, 2005,  that the Help Screen Active Subset,
which filters help for the programming language being used has stopped showing

Hi NG!
I've googled a lot, but unsuccessfully...
Does anybody know how to draw on a PictureBox with an XOR method (like
the old DrawMode=vbXorPen property of VB6)?

I am using VB5.
I wish I had a function to draw a line, giving the angle and length but I do
not have the math skills involved to do this. Does anyone have a function
that they care to share that does this?

Is it possible to launch and control other web browsers besides IE,
either as the native application or a like webbrowser within a form?
I'd need similar functions, e.g.
   Navigate2

I am trying to something I thought was rather simple, however the
results I am getting at not simple to me.
I want to use a text file as input and read each line of that file, we
will call the file, file1.  

Can someone help me with this puzzle?
I have a picture in a PictureBox. It was put there with BitBlt in a Clip n
Paste routine (a section of one picturebox copied into another).
When I look at the PictureBox1.Picture.Width or PictureBox1.Picture.Height,

I have a picturebox that contains a price chart (price bars, lines, etc.).
What I would like to be able to do is to draw a dotted rectangle around any
part of the chart that I would like captured into the clipboard for pasting
into emails, webpages, or to simply print out.

I have a program written in VB6. As all programs you have many things
defined either via Public or Dim statements. When the program first starts
it takes about 5 megs of memory, during the running it goes up to 150 megs
of memory which is no problem, but afterwards when it is ...

I use VB6, SP6 on WinXP, sp2
I use With to access a form:
   With MyForm
       ...

Can someone please tell me how to alter the code below from producing
"LabelID.Caption & TextDate.Text.dat" to saving the actual value of the two
items, for example, "301-01-2005.dat" ?
Trial.ID = LabelID.Caption

This is simple, i just cant get any specifics
I want to write a quick thing that will copy MyDocuments to a USB stick
Basically Copy C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents\*
TO

After finally being able to copy a part of one picture box to another
(clipscreen function), I now have a clipped picture in my second picturebox
called pctClip.
Now I would like to save the contents of this pctClip picturebox to a GIF

I have a combobox control and would like the user
to be able to select from a list of colors and a one "Style".
the list contains only 4 items...
Bold

In C there's the union statement, in cobol, there's a redefines statement,
what is there in VB?
I want to write an app based on the VMS undocumented checksum command
which generates a longword value based on the individual records in the

I have a form with a number of buttons on it (15).  Each button has a
picture on it.  I want to be able to keep a record of the button that
are clicked in a text file.  Can someone please help?
Thanks