VB Forum / General 2 / April 2006

Cheers, all.  I'm sure this is not as complicated as I'm making it out
to be.  In a nutshell, using the snippet from a script below, I'd like
to take the text entered into the InputBox and have it replace all
instances of "Contact Templatetest.xls" that appears in the subsequent

i would like to have some sort of program to allow voice commands to
work along games i play. I have tried programs like VR Commander but
it doesnt seem to work, at least not with elder scrolls: oblivion.
anyway, i am now trying a few vb samples ive found using Microsoft

I need some help on some option buttons in a userform.  I have 8
buttons(8 different products) two comboboxs, and a text box. No
problems with the combobox or text box. I'm tying to record each
product selected in different colum on a worksheet.  It doesn't matter

I have written VB6 code to operate and acquire data from gpib and
serial connected meters but never in an OOP fashion.  I am having
difficulty deciding what to call a property and what not to call a
property.  The GPIB address seems to be a property but what about the

I have this form where I am trying to place items from checked boxes
into a text box.  An image of what this form looks like is at
http://www.stelth2000inc.com/images/screen.png
Here is some code I have done for the first 2 check boxes, name and

I've written an application in C# that needs to be converted to VB6.
It's all pretty straight-forward, except I have a method in a base
class that is inherited into all derived classes that first checks to
see if a method exists in the instantiated object, and if so, calls it.

Is there a way for VB5 to determine exactly where on a hard drive a .exe
file is stored upon the .exe file's first copying to the hard drive? What I
need to know is the exact hard drive sector, cluster, partition, etc.
information so I can use it later on to determine if the file ...

On a form I have a timer, Interval set to 500. It does a couple of things
and I need this time to run all the time. Some of the code tests for curtian
conditions and does whatever. The form has lots of popup menus on it, and I
need some way of testing if any popup menu is showing ...

I openly admit that I may not know what I'm doing with Visual Basic, but I
have an Excel spreadsheet that contains some VB stuff in it.   I copy a file
to a new location, and then I would like to delete the original file.
When I use the "kill" function, it does not delete the file ...

I have a question, (in dutch)
Ik ben van plan om te gaan programmeren in Visual Basic versie 6.
Ik heb vroeger (10 jaar geleden) wel software geschreven in Turbo Basic maar
dat waren eenvoudige NAW en factuurprogramma's.

How can I obtain the full XML path of any given XML Node? For example,
if my XML document looks like this:
---BEGIN XML DOC---
<Tag1>

i am trying to use my vb.net programm to install a list of other programms,
which
are located on a server.
Some of the programms are being installed, others like office xp or office

The command Let XXDEVD$ = "jlm" gives me a compile error. invalid
outside procedure. This command is being used for  AS400 processing.
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks

I have a customer table in one database and I have a function that will copy its records into the customer table of another
database.  I do it this way:
       With CUSTOMER1
           If (Not (.BOF And .EOF)) Then

VB6
I have a Class and a collection. The collection has 12 'Fields'.
Can I refer to the field names with a variable?
EG: This can be done