VB Forum / General 2 / November 2006

I have a little popup on my VB6 app that contains four CommandButtons - Up,
Down, Left, Right.  I would like the user to be able to use the arrow keys
on the keyboard in addition to the onscreen buttons.
The conventional wisdom seems to be to set KeyPreview on the form to True,

Some help please
How can I insert rows into a pre-formatted Excel worksheet.
Thanks in advance
John Fox

I discovered an amazing hitch in VB6 SP6.
I run a Sub Main that shows a splash screen, initializes a number of items,
takes down the splash screen, and shows the main form.
While trying to track another problem that I couldn't run in the IDE because

Can you install VB6 on top of VS 2005 without killing any newer system files
?
Thanks in advance ...

I'm trying to print some objects from a form but it is not positioned
like on the form.
Everything is very small printed in the top left corner.
What's wrong?

I just started programing VB not to long ago and i need help this.
Someone plz look this over and tell me what i need to do, if you can
figure out what ive done so far. It is pretty much a hangman game and i
need to make it to where you start with 100 points and then drop 10 for

A client has requested that I change the design of the program to something
similar to the following:
http://www.mhims.co.uk/PROGRAM%20BACKGROUND.jpg
http://www.mhims.co.uk/PROGRAM%20BACKGROUND2.jpg

Any way to get the true on screen length in pixels/twips or other number
other than characters?
thanks

Is there a way to change the back and foreground colours of highlighted text
in a VB6 TextBox so that it is different (as in specified in code) to the
system defined colours?
Problem is: If the Textbox has no border and it's container background

I first saw this in a Microsoft licensing screen and thought it was
pretty cool.  Now, we would like to implement it so that we can try to
"force" users to read all the way through something.
How can I verity that a scrollbar has actually been scrolled all the

Karl, Rick Rothstein, Mike, Frenchie, Jan, Mayayana and other "old timers":
Would something like this be helpful or is there *already* a site like this I
ought to know about?
http://webspace4me.net/~mjohnson/VBClassic/

I'm sorry folks, I thought this would be really simple but I've been
looking for a few hours and trying different things and no luck so here
goes:
Using VB 6 SP6 I use the printer object to print some text (with

I am trying to insert a new record into a sql table...
I have several tables open at one time, all the data is related
1 to many

This is probably the must untechnical question anyone has ever asked.
I have done a very little VBA programming in MS Access at work and
thoroughly enjoyed it.  I will be retiring in a few months and would
like to take up programming as a "job" in retirement.  I enjoy it very

I have a VB6 application that uses command line ADO to communicate to a SQL
Server database.  I developed it under Visual Studio 6 SP 6 on a Win 2K
machine, and it is very similar to other applications I've also developed to
talk to different databases on this same SQL Server.