VB Forum / General 2 / March 2007

I am trying to use the LoadPicture function of PaintX from www.paintlib.de 
in my VB6 application.
I installed PaintX on my computer using regsvr32, and the Excel sample
application delivered with PaintX finds the library.

A. System Crash
B. System Recovered
C. Existing VB 6.0 Projects return
                                         "Run-time error '48:

Could someone either link me to a page explaining, or explain
themselves, how I might go about finding the current logged-in user on
a machine using VB6? Novell is the latest version.

Hello all friends. I am a VB-API beginner. I want to know hoe to find
its constants for a  API Declare. For example：
When we declare a function:
Private Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias

I was looking for information on DLLs for some reason the other day and came
across this article.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/04/26/create_dll.html
It appears to 'trick' VB into compiling and linking the 'proper' way so as

Really not too sure what I am doing.  I would like to launch MS Word from
VB6 so that it will mail- merge with a comma delimited text file  called
Data.txt.  The code below launches MS Word but how to invoke the merge from
VB .. don't know

I am adding an appointment to Outlook via a VB programme. The programme
works OK in that it enters the appointment OK, but it leave a copy of
Outlook running invisibly, only viewable in Task Manager.
What am I doing wrong please? Any help would be gratefully received.

I am developing a system on which multiple front-end kiosks machines
will be connected to a central server. I am being asked for the
authentication mechanism for the machines, like how will the central
server authenticate the machines on the network. IP authentication or

I am currently working on a small program for the making it easier for
disabled person to use the internet, basically i will first implement
the prototype on a webpage and then start working on it for firefox
extension especially compatible with wikipedia.

I was wondering what the 'best way' to allow a user to set the action for a
certain key. For example let's say I'm making a game (easiest example I can
think of) and so have 'up', 'down', 'left' and 'right' and 'action'. How
would you allow a user to set which buttons on the ...

My company will upgrade its SQL Server 2000 to 2005, can its existing VB6
applications continue to run smoothly ?
Does SQL Server 2005 support VB6 ?

Hello NG!
Being a newbee to VB6.0, I'm faced withe the following problem:
I'm using VB6.0 on WinXP Pro to re-engineer a DB-frontend.
There a several frames containing combos based on fixed lists of

I have made a program which circulates in a range of cells.
I would like to reduce the speed of execution. I would like that the
selection of the cells don't go so quickly.
Is it possible and what must I do?

I wondered if it is possible to Call private function within my form
by name like:
Private Sub test()
  msgbox "hi"

I'm an absolute newbie at VB.  I have Visual Studio 2005. (XPPro)
I can build little apps, but can't figure out how to compile those .sln files to .exe
I have a simple VB app I built called BeepAndMessage.sln
How can I compile that to an .EXE file?