VB Forum / General 2 / July 2006

I guess this question is not just related to VB.NET. i think it would
appear even in VBA. So, posting this question in this group.
I am having to vb files. One is located under C:/VB/main and the other
is under C:/VB/class.

I would like help with writing a vb6 program that would check the attribute
bit in all files in 'my documents and sub-folders' and identify files that
need to be backed up.  It would probably need to exclude certain file types
such as .dll, etc.  Any help would be appreciated.

I have four combo boxes in an array, called cmbSW.  Each combo box has
two options which I have set in the .List property.  However, behind
these text options I need numbers encoded, so I have also set the
.ItemData property with the two numbers (these numbers are 1 and 0 for

This is a silly question, but I must ask to better understand.
I do development work in Ms Access using VBA and new to SQL Server and now
learning what Visual Studio 2005 has to offer.
In my mind Ms Access does so many little steps in the background for you (via

Is it possible to have the list of the PC actifs in the domain, just like
the "net view" dos command.
Bernard

Having just responded to a post concerning a listbox, I did a bit of
testing. It would appear that a sorted listbox isn't actually sorted.
Example:
   List1.AddItem ("Open")

The old problem of code which has worked fine for ages breaks.  Or
rather it comes up against a new situation.
I'm getting web pages by using InternetOpen and InternetOpenUrl, with
the code Microsoft has on one of their pages.  The lines in question

This will seem quite elementary for many of you, but I am fairly new to
VB. I am trying to change the icon that appears with my program. The
icon appears in the alt+ tab, the top left corner on the titlebar, and
next to the program name on the taskbar. I wanted to change it to

I want to access a modem equipment device over the internet by calling it
with its IP address and then using telnet to log in to its text style
management screen, send a few single character commands and download a page
of traffic statistics every 5 minutes and display a running ...

I have a listbox about 300 lines long and a textbox with the search term in.
I want to be able to find the line that term is in. Anyone know how I would
go about it?
Thanks,

On my keyboard I have buttons like play, pause, stop etc etc (didn't have a
driver to install when I first got the keyboard) . How do I program my VB6
app to respond to these buttons?
Michael

I am working on an idea for a data input device for the disabled in
which values are tapped out on a board and sent to the serial port. Can
somebody tell me if the following can be acheived with VB;
If mscomm (or other device) is used to capture the input can VB pass

Instead of just moving on to the next control when it finds a control
that does not have a Text property, I get a message:
Error 438:  Object doesn't support this property or method.
       On Error Resume Next

I'm trying to prevent someone closing a form if invalid data is in a textbox
that is suppose to take numbers.
My previous post dealt with controlling input. This one is when the textbox
loses focus after someone used Copy and Paste to put the wrong type of

I have been trying to figure outhow to prevent my VB6 program from being started multiple times.
I must not be as good with kework searches as I thought since I can't even find something similar
in the Knowledge Base.
I have a VB6 Data Acces pgm and I want to check to see if it is ...