VB Forum / General 2 / April 2007

Hi all - here's what I'm trying to do:
I have a form used by physicians to track various patient data.
On one part of this form there is displayed an image of a skeleton
drawing that has a circle to indicate each of the skeletal joints in

I am trying to write an application that will eventually be made as a
Subroutine in another VB6 application.
We have a Java intranet server that serves HTTP requests such as
GetNextOrderNumber, which is supposed to retrieve an order number for

I want to click a button to run a Power Point show (.pps) and don't mind if
the VB6 program exits when this is done.  Is there a simple way to do this?
I've searched many VB websites but haven't seen this one yet.

I have a VB6 app where I want to delete a direcory and all its files.
The easiest way apparently is the  FileSystemObject.  Problem is it
does not work.  When I run the app, an error pops up saying the Dim
fso As New FileSystemObject statement as:  User-defined type not

Hey, all, I've been going rounds with this for, well, all day.  About
8 hours of this and I'm warped.  I though this would be really
simple.  I want an icon from a file to be saved as an ICO file (Icon
format).  I can get the icon from the file (Shell32.DLL) no sweat with

I have been using api calls to the wininet.dll for all of my ftp automation.
I now need to switch over to sftp.  There are a lot of 'buy activeX
component' sites out there, but I prefer to write it, hopefully with some
help from you guys.  I could not find any examples.  If ...

Problem:
I am using vb6.0 in client application.
we r using winsock control to send data in bytes to server.
the program is successful but if data is large ie eg 90 kb it wont

We would like to include the functionality of sending a pdf file as a
fax into our vb.net application. Can anyone suggest a viable solution?
I am envisioning a 3d party web service, but I am open minded to
whatever anyone can suggest.

Well, I did a project  to the .exe format, and in the  "source" Pc ran
very well  without any problem, but when I ran it in others pc's , in
the third form happened a error called 339 the msg box says the
follow:

I'm puzzled.
The following code is designed to take a date and a weekday count value, and
return the future date.
For example, if I supply it a starting date of 4/25/2007 and a count of 37,

After reviewing three VB "Bibles" and googling for an answer, I have
come to the conclusion that there is no one way to build a pause into
a VB6 program.
All I want to do is to have a user click a button (which sets off a

I have a code snippet from something predating VB6 and there's the variable
ok%  - does the % do anything or is it just part of the variable name?
The variable name isn't declared anywhere so it's hard to judge....
Cheers,

Is it possible?  Is it reliable?
Any pointers to starting a thread in vb would be appreciated.
Otherwise I guess I can just use a timer event....

text box change sub works for me, but not combo box change sub

I have a VB6 app that includes MSCOMM32.OCX and COMDLG32.OCX. The
application is
installed from an MSI file generated by MS Visual Studio Installer.
Installed the app on Windows Vista, with no errors. When you try to