VB Forum / General 2 / January 2006

Could someone pleaese tell me how many 'intervals' there are in a
second.
Also what is the maximum interval, and why.
...because for some projects I want to have something happen every hour

Does anyone know how to delete a record in a *.dat file.
...properly, I know how to set the fields to "
" type thing but I can't actually get rid of that record be it record 4
of 9 or nine of nine.

This didn't appear to send the first time so I am reposting it.  If you
have received it twice, sorry.
I hope someone can help me with a simple problem?
I have an RTB on my form. It will be dynamically filled with

Please for GOD's sake someone tell me
The actual difference between Active X, DLL and EXE How they differ in
working and in memory handling pleeez someone explain with an
example....

Sorry to bother you all, but I seem to have lost a "programming friend" of
mine, Ivar :-(
I know he sometimes uses this group and he sent me some VB files to look at
last week but most of the attachments were missing. I sent a reply to that

When I click one command on Form76, it starts some calculations and
soon it displays another form Form22 without my asking for it.
Form76 has scientific calculations and at the end of iteration 1, it
should write some results to several forms including Form22. Some

I'm working on a project with VB5.  When I run the program in design mode,
it won't terminate when I click on the X.  But yet, when I compile it to an
exe, and run the exe, it terminates.  It wasn't doing this in the begining
but my project is growing and I noticed it recently.

   I have two VB5 questions that should be extremely easy to answer, even
though I've tried (and failed) to work them out myself.
With a DBGrid control, how do I specify the number of columns I want when it
is in unbound mode? (DbGrid1.Cols = x doesn't work).

I would like to view the sound file[wav file]  (as a sound wave of
sorts) in vb.
I was wondering if there are any good examples of this on the net as
google turned up a dated example using a live feed(though the results

I can not open the VB-IDEwindow. The fan starts to run, nothing happened.
The window freezes and I have to kill the application.
IT's with all Office 2003 SP1 products and VB6 on WinXP SP2.
The system worked properly for month before the problem showed up.

On visual studio 2005,
im trying to browse a anonymous FTP with OpenFileDialog. It wont let me
do it.
But once its open on c:\  I can type in the file name ftp://127.0.0.1

I have written an application where the same form is opened several
times (to display information from different files simultaneously).
Everything woks fine except the focus of the forms. Basically the core
of the application is a controller which receives a message and creates

I placed the following procedure,
Public Sub FindRecipe(Rspns As String, KeyNum As Integer)
 Rspns = frmDisplay.txtSearch.Text
 Print " This is findrecipe" & Rspns

Happy New Year everyone.
I have the user provide a response into a text box and when they press
the "ENTER" key I have the focus shift to a command button.
Is there a way to have the pressing of the ENTER key cause the command

Im trying to write a small app which will download an XML file from a
URL and put it into an ADO recordset to analyze.
The second part I have already accomplished locally and now I need to
be able to download the file for realtime data. The problem is I dont