VB Forum / General 2 / June 2006

I have a borderless form which has a BMP file as its entire background; i.e.
Form1.Picture = Load Picture(app.path & "\filename.bmp")
I'm attempting to catch keyboard events for this form. However, no matter
what key I press no event is fired. The goal is to detect a click on the

Hi to all,
I've been passing a phew days trying to fin what wrong.
I've got a vb6 program that launches Excel, fills a new xls with data
from a DB and then I need to launch 2 macros in it. The first one works

1. I have just installed a new copy of windows xp on my computer.
2. I have installed visual basic 6 package with sp6.
3. I had an EXE application running on my old computer (that ran just fine).
4. On my fresh copy of xp I am getting an error message when I’m running the

I need do this but in VB6 anyone can help??
strFile = "c:\rlm\HilltopLab\NewScripts\ParseTest.txt"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFile, 1)

I have a borderless form which has a BMP file as its entire background; i.e.
Form1.Picture = Load Picture(app.path & "\filename.bmp")
I'm attempting to catch keyboard events for this form. However, no matter
what key I press no event is fired. The goal is to detect a click on the

I heard about memory leaks in the treeview control in VB6, even when using
the Nodes.Clear method.
Could someone give me an URL to a KB article about it?
Thanks.

I use VB6 with SQLServer 2000, and have noted that , in some forms, if I use
DoEvents in Form Load Event in a MDChild=False form, it triggers Activate
Event and, if you know causes an error if an Object.SetFocus method is
present; this situation does not occur if MDChild=True. As ...

I posted a request for help a few weeks ago but sadly I received just one
reply. I'd appreciate it if any of you would kindly try out the following
code for me and let me know the result. The code creates a small test image
and then blits four smaller copies of it to the Form ...

I am trying to get text from another application window written in VB6. The
window have 3 text boxes with some text in them.
The second VB6 application expect to get the contents of the 3 text boxes
using the "sendmessage".

In my visual basic .net winform application, I use a web browser
control to
embed an Office document. The Office document can be loaded and save to
its

Using Visual Basic 6, how can I iconize another running application
(Internet explorer for example)
Need also to know how to maximize it from  iconized state.
Many thanks for your help.

I am writing a large and complex sub procedure in a form, and when there is
a certian amount of code or more I receive the error 'Common Language
Runtime detected an invalid program  ' when It reaches this sub procedure. I
am fairly new to VB, and dont really know how I could put ...

Is there a way to change the value of an element in a VB6 collection?
'  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '  '
Dim MyCollection as New Collection
MyCollection.Add "zero"

Another programmer approached me with a question. He wants to create a copy of a class. He ends up
with two variables pointing to the same class.
<begin way oversimplified example>
Dim A as New MyClass

I have a DriveList Box ( drvChoose)  and a Directory ListBox ( dirDirect)  
in my ActiveX control. When the users choose a drive, then the directoryList
box changes to display the directories of that drive. This works fine.   BUt
the problem is that when no CD exists in the CD ROM ...