VB Forum / General 2 / January 2006

with frmtest1.show i open a form. of course the focus is now on this
form, so i cannot do other things.....
what i want to have is that the form is shown at the screen (i dont
care if it is shown as inactive) but it should be possible to do

Is it possible to pass an addressof (some function ) to a class and have
that class call the function to which the pointer points to?
Thanks alot!

how do  i read/writefrom ini files?

I have a procedure declared in the general declarations section of
frmDisplayRecipe as follows:
Private Sub DsplyRcp()
I call it from a form procedure in frmDisplayRecipe as follows:

Trying to teach myself visual basic.  Haven't written any code since the days
of DOS using Turbo Pascal.  I have a number of Pascal programs that run OK in
Win 98, except that the graphicll outputs portions (X-Y plots) do not print
with my ink jet printer.  The text portions do ...

Greetings. I have been pounding my head on this problem for a few days
and I cannot get the dang thing to work.
I have been trying to calculate two angles and the distance of one side
in an angle. Given a triangle with one corner "A" at 15 degrees and the

I often end up with Stream type variables when I type quickly and don't put
in the extra character to get a String.  Decided finally to look up and see
just what they are, and had no success with my MSDN Library.  Just what are
Stream variables used for in VB6?

This is my first attempt at using the printer object. I typed the
following line in a form procedure:
printer.print "Printer"
And of course it printed the word "Printer" on the printer.

When I use killdir to delete a file, only names from 8 characters or shorter
wil delete.
But names like MYFILE~1.TXT don't work with killdir.
FileName$ = "C:\PROGRA~1\MYDIRS~1\MYFILE~1.TXT

Once users select the type of paper they want from the ConfigPrinter dialog, I would like to resize a picture control accordingly to
show them what it may look like. If it doesn't look right, I want them to be able to reselect a different type of paper (or envelope
or whatever).

I've written (VB 6.0) several programs at work and stored them on our Novell
5.1 server. At a later date, those folders were moved (intact) to another
location on the server. Now, when I try to open ANY (and all) of those
project files, I get a "File not found" error. Windows ...

I have a special request.
I am trying to integrate a secure web based product and a vb
application together.
Basically, data is entered into the vb application and processed as the

Can a function that exists in a Visual Basic module be used in a Select
query on a Access 97 database, in a VB procedure? When I try to do this I
get the error 3085, unrecognized function.
ex:

Now that Visual Studio 2005 has been out a while I'm hoping that someone can
give me some insight on what version to upgrade to (standard or
professional).  I went out on Microsoft's site and looked at the comparison
chart and didn't find anything really significant between the ...

BTW, I'm using VB5 on WinXP... is that ok?
My main question is this:
What is a good way to backup a microsoft database file?   My project uses a
file "myfile.mdb" and I want to add a backup feature to my project.