VB Forum / General 2 / January 2006

I have a VB6 app that uses a DB and a home grown config file. There are
also a couple of XML files.
I need to be able to install this application so that if multiple user
accounts exist on single computer all of the users will be accessing the

I've got a small utility program which runs vb scripts that are in an
access database.  A lot of the scripts that are stored do some database
updates.  In order to check if the update succeeded, as part of the vb
script I do a select statement on the table that was just updated with

I'm running a number of command-line utilities that require logging in
to run, so I wrote a VB app that will use WScript to call the function
and send the ID and Password.  This works okay if I run the utilitity
normally, but when I schedule it as a task or run it in an RDP session

Ive designed my own web-browser and I'm trying to get it to download
various files past a login screen.
I'd like to know how to replicate certain keystrokes within the browser
(Tab, space, enter and A-Z keystrokes) so it automatically does this -

Hallo NG!
For a teletype demonstration with students I need to program the i/o pins  
(dtr/rts/cts) of the rsr232-port or pins of lpt1. Has anyone done this?  
Are there code-snippets/-examples available somewhere? Any other ideas?  

Is it possible to initialize a static variables value (within a sub) or do I
need to change the scope of this variable to the modular level and write
code to initialize it at start?
Thanks.

I'm using VB4-32 and want to populate a menu listing COM ports after
enumerating the ports at run time.
How do I do this?

Good day everyone,
I have declared a counter in an event procedure as follows:
   Static TxtCntr as integer
How do I set the counter to zero from within a different event

I am printing records on a screen with a for next loop and there are
too many records for one screen. Therefore I have to "pause" the
printing process to allow the user to read the records on the screen.
When the user then "presses any key to continue" I erase the screen and

Come on Ivar. That email address of yours (even with the obvious removed) is
a waste of time! Sometimes my messages get through, but at other times they
bounce back, sometimes immediately but often days later. Pull yourself
together lad!

If opt1.Checked = True Then
           Txtprice.Text = +"£390"
       ElseIf opt2.Checked = True Then
           Txtprice.Text = +"£550"

Hellou!
Please can anybody tell me how to Get text from edit box in some window
(etc. notepad) if i have HWND of this edit box.
I try by using GetWindowText API butt this API return text only if this text

Any way of making a text box go up/down the screen instead of across?
If not are there any methods of putting text vertically
jaez

Does anyone know why there are so many " in the following statement -
the bits with >> in front of them (done only to mark them out to you)?
Dim strterm As String
Dim varresult As Integer

I have a web solution with two projects. I tried to open a new web project
in the solution and the "Opening project" dialog box came up and stayed up
continuously (with the dots circling the world). When I killed the dialog
box by pressing the "X", I got the "End Now" dialog and ...