VB Forum / General 2 / March 2006

Is there a reason why my HP deskjet 3600 series printer will prints my text in size 12 or something.  My VB code sets the printer
font size to 6 and then loops through a recordset printing text.  What's strange is that sometimes it will print the right size.  I
have also seen ...

Is there a way to get the desktop (computer's) display settings (the size of
the window; i.e. 1024 X 768, etc.) when starting a program...changing it to
what it needs to be for the length of the program and then resetting it upon
leaving the program?

I'm running a simple query on an Access Table from VB6.0.  The operator can
make several different selections.  Based on their selection, a different,
specific SQL needs to be run.  So, when the operator says... "Do it"...the
click procedure goes to a Function (based on their ...

I'm not too sure which group this post relates to, but the problem
seems related to Windows XP Tablet Edition. Sorry to cross-post.
So here goes: I've got a VB6 application which calls a function inside
a C++ DLL. I've had no problem executing it on every PC available here

If I try to compile my app, I get to the common dialog to chose the exe name,
but immediately after that the ide crashes without any error message.  If
I try to compile from the command line, I get an error message &H800040005.
Do you know what migth be causing this?

We have built an exe with English VB6 SP5. Some French users get errors
caused by implicit casting of a Boolean True to a string. On most
computers the result is "True". But with French regional settings and
the DLL VB6FR.dll present in the System directory, the result is

I'm using visual basic 6.
I have a MS Access database (accessing it via ADO) which has in it an
OLE Object column. The column ("songData") holds MP3s... I was
wondering how I could extract this data from the database and play it,

Revisiting an old project.
Quick question; is there such a concept as the unsigned integer in VB6? If
not, any suggestions how I might achieve this?
eg in C++ there's

I have an image in a picture box control on my form.  It contains a bitmap image (the floor plan of a building) which measures
approx 1350 x 2000 pixels - the image can't be reduced without distorting certain details.   Of course, this means the image is
larger than the form so I ...

I have got a program where I should extensively implement
object-oriented features of the vb.net. I have got a class tenant and a
class room, both belong to some dormitory. In that dormitory class i
have 2 array lists to store objects of class tenant and room

I am building a program in which I need it to detect all operations
that a mouse can do, for example leftmousedown, leftmouseup,
rightmousedown, rightmouseup ect. If anyone can provide me with a list
of commands (and how to use them) to detect all mouse events (besides

I'd like to get all the text from a web page.
When I do this manually, I would right-click, select all, right-click,
copy, and then paste it somewhere.  When I paste it, it essentially
looks like the formatted web page.

I received error message: unregistered library as soon as I tried to
create a new C#/VB project, and the IDE crashed with
message "R6052 pure virtual function call" if I tried it again.
The problem exists even after I reinstall VS.

I have a VB6 project where I am using the ADO with MS Jet.  I am using
the DTPicker to set the date.  The DataSource is set to the
datPrimaryRS and the DataField is set to the Date field of the
database.  When I launch the application, it bombs and returns a

With VB6 intrinsic ScrollBars. Is it posible using APIs to retrieve info on
the size and position of the scroll button. The position of the button
changes when the value changes, and the size of the button changes depending
on the differance between min and max. Once the value ...