VB Forum / General 2 / February 2006

Greetings everyone,
I have a frame that contains 3 option buttons. When first created on
the form the value property of each one was set to false. At run time
there is a dot in the top radio button and its "click" procedure is

Is the message box msgbox limited to 1024 characters?
I'm using vb6
THX

I think I need to create a Range object (not just the pointer to it) so I
can add some text to a footnote in a Word document.
How do I do it, please?
Cheers

Hello all, i am a newbie using visual basic, i made a small text editor
using the wizard, i just want to know how can i make abutton that
searchers all the text and replaces certain characters i specify with
others i specify too, such as a>z and b>y etc... thanks in advance

I can see how to disable Maximize, Minimize. But how do you disable the
Restore button only on the form?
What am I missing?
Thx.

Hi @all!
I am new to Visual Basic, having just created some Makros (SUBs in
English?) and facing a few problems. Please be patient with me... I am
not only a newbee but also German and didn't find a German

I have a form that starts in Maximized state.
In the Form_Resize(), I draw a statusbox using API functions at the very
bottom. This works great.
If I disable the MaxButton for the form (design time) and run the program,

I'd like to share what I have found today.   I'm just wondering if this is the correct way to deal with currencies.   In the past
(like until this morning) I used to use something like this:
   Text1.Text = Format(cCOSTA,"#,0.00").
   ' ...

I found a disk with several .WAV files and wondered about using them.  I have not found any
information in my VB6 texts regarding code.  How would I code a file called TheEnd.WAV in the code
below?  How do I give the user the option to shut off/turn on all WAV files that are in ...

I need help. I have a Visual Basic v3 application and one client is
having trouble printing to a network printer (he is running Windows XP,
SP2). A local printer works fine but using a network printer he gets
error #482 (General Printer Error) almost immediately. Other programs

My application has to connect to a mysql database on localhost...
How can I avoid mysql driver manual install?

I've had an idea for an app I want to write for personal use which will
absolutely hammer the disk drives on my system. My app will interrogate
files then load or update either a database (Access) or a standard indexed
file (not decided which yet - this is a really simple app).

I'm using VB6 on XP (sp2) and want to know why my drivelist box doesn't
contain the labels to certain drives. For example, I put most of my
private work on a memory stick plugged into one of the USB ports. This
particular model reports to the system as drives A: and E: both come ...

I am currently available for work of the following types:-
Analyst/Programmer
Programmer
Software Developer

I can use either VB6 or .Net running under WinXP. What I'd like to do
is to open a program from my program, and be able to "click" buttons
in the other program, and to "type" text into input fields. The other
program is a freeware video clip frame grabber, that generates contact