VB Forum / General 2 / November 2006

i am trying to run a program that needs to be run through the cmd
without doing it manually.
all i need to do is change the path of the cmd "say to C:\Ilan", and
then to run a java program, say "java -jar ilan.jar 8085".

UpDown Control(s) turns into PictureBox(s)
Has anyone ever seen this and knows the cause, or how to prevent it.
Apparently, the form loaded and could not find the library to load the
updown control from, but why ?

My VB6 application has a couple of ComboBoxes set to "Dropdown List" mode.
Is there any way I can adjust the height of the drop-down list it provides?
My list is 1 item longer than what it shows by default, and it's a bit
irritating to have to hit the scroll-down arrow or use the ...

I am getting the following error message, but arent sure whats causing it or
how to fix it............
'Row cannot be located for updating. Some values may have been changed since
it was last read.'

Hi, apologies first up - im a newby and am teaching myself. I need to take
data from a flexgrid and display it on a label (on another form). so I have
2 questions
1) how do I get the data off the flexgrid

i have visual basig 6
if i type in the debug window it gives me a strange result
debug.print 183 - 173.55
9.44999999999999

I have a program that creates a log file if some conditions are met...
I want this log file to be sent to my email address... how can I
achieve that?
Thank you in advance...

I want to make my program that I had created with visual basic 6 to
auto start when windows start, how can achieve that? Please, I do NOT
want to achieve that through autobatch and Startup folder...
Thank you in advance...

I like my VB6 application to read/write from/to an existing Excel file.
I am experienced using Adodc connecting Excel to VB6 and
using the Excel file as a database but somewhere I read that it
also can be done by using an 'Application' object or something

I am writing a VB desktop application and I want to store its data on
a remote database and access it via the user's Internet connection. It
is not a true database application and the data, about 1000 bytes,
will always be accessed via a primary key and split into individual

I need to create and mount audio cd images.
Any way to create a virtual cd rom drive for use with VB?
thanks

I just came upon something I've not seen before (as if that was the
statement of the year ;).
I declared, within a modules Declaration section...
Private iBars as integer

In my VB6 IDE, every time I hit CTRL+F the find dialog box comes up
all the way toward the bottom of the screen. I can drag it up to the
middle, but every time I click Find Next, it relocates itself back
down.

Can one use the FindFirst command to find a certain integer value in a
database table?  If not, is there another method of doing this?

Hi, well I'm using VB and Access as the db. I have made a crosstab
query in Access and it's work well, but when I do the same in VB
through ADO (not the control) it doesn't work.
I've just copied the SQL sentence as appear in Access to VB as