VB Forum / General 2 / February 2007

I'm using Visual Basic 6.0, and, for some reason, the wheel mouse
never seems to function correctly in the editor window (i.e. it has no
effect).  Is there some way to get the wheel mouse working in VB 6.0?
Thank you.

When showing a modal form there is an owner parameter:
Form1.Show vbModal, owner
1) What is the use of the owner parameter?
2) If this is called from another form, can the owner be anything but

Quick question about data binding & vb6.  I have a form with a bunch
of textboxes on it.  In the unload event, I run the .Update command.
Everything works fine except that the data in the active textbox (the
one with the focus) will not update.  It will work just fine if I tab

In my app there are tasks that take a while to complete, so the
users often switch to another app while waiting for a task to
finish. So I want to notify them when it is finished.
I don't want to pop up a modal form in my app, or switch the window

A program has 9 labels and 5 text boxes.
4 of the labels have black text on a white background &8000000E&
5 of the labels have black text on a light gray background
All 5 text boxes have black text on a white background

I've been away from VB5 for years, while concentrating on Access
development.
Can VB5 and Crystal Reports handle fairly complex reports such as
reports containing several sub-reports?

Hi, everybody
                     Quick question  were do declare clear in listbox
event.

When I close Internet Explorer it tells me "Internet Explorer has to close
unexpectedly" then tries to send a report to Microsoft Error Reporting which
sometimes works, I don't try to stop it, and then I get a popup window with
the words RUNTIME ERROR with some long negative ...

I'm looking for opinions on a question about
programming style. I want to run a program
with a stop/start button that loops through
the same code over and over, but i'm not

Does VB6 have problems with changing the printer fonts?
VB5 has me buffaloed, and in the application I am working on I can
either NOT add an option for changing printer fonts (i.e., settle for
the printer's default fonts), OR, if VB6 does not have problems, then

I am an amateur software developer. I distribute educational freeware
from my website at www.dcproof.com. I have some questions about
digital signatures:
Do I really need one for my setup.exe download? Would many potential

I have been searching for hours and cannot find anything on this.  My
guess is since UCase or LCase Can in fact force Text in the format
needed, thre oughta be a way to grab Text Italicized and convert to
regular Text.

Hey, all, I have a problem with queries against a SQL server instance
that I just found and is causing me fits.  I hope someone can point me
in the right direction, please.  TIA.
Basically, I got a Vista OS machine to test my VB6 app on it as some

Does anybody know how to make the following code work in windows XP, works
fine in windows 2000, it takes the time and date from a set of strings
(strings below used as an example), then adds 1 min to the time and date
given.

Hi there...
We're using VB6 and FarPoint's vaTabPro control. Basically, we have a
number of controls on a number of tabs (assigned at design time), and
an Update button. One of the consequences of pushing the update button