VB Forum / General 2 / May 2007

Hallo NG!
I wrote a VB6 application, which checked word documents and write data in a
sql database. If the application open an word document, it's crashed without
an error message on the screen. In the eventlog is an entry about the crash.

I'm using two user defined data types to convert 4 bytes of a text stream
into a longword for use in other calculations:
Public Type xString
   xsValue as String * 4

Im getting a out of memory message every time i start VB6....
or a new proj or a proj i work on...
tho it cant be i have low mem i got 768ddr and i run xp+vb+msn...thats it...
this bug happen to be twice already...befor i had it for few days then i had

Hello there .. sorry the title might have been a bit confusing. Well
let me explain. I am making a program and I want to make it so that a
label changes caption every time the user presses the Space key .. I
tried doing this .. which is prebably wrong :P But please help me ..

Hi everyone and thanks in advance for any help or comments,
I have written a manual for my VB6.0 program and converted into
a pdf file.  how do I spawn a reader not knowing what pdf reader
a user might have.

Could some kind soul please advise me how to delete small pictures
that are in a shape of an icon in an Excel file using VB. These
pictures are carried over from an HTML file as a copy and paste
function and there are hundereds of this little pictures and they are

I'm having trouble replacing a substring within a string
Basically I have a value in a string and want to replace the Nth
character with another Value, i.e. Character 60 to be replaced with
"9"

have a VB6 project that on the form I have set the BorderStile to 2 -
sizable and created a function to resize the form and its controls min or
max.
Although, I am trying to find a way to disable the user from dragging the

I have an access database that I created to keep track of the records
we collect.  I am trying to use VB.NET to view in a form I created.  I
have radio buttons in a groupbox accross the top that allow to choose
between 33, 45 or 78.

I have a VB application that I need to interface with a DLL. The DLL
performs callback functions in the VB application. Normally that
works, but in this case the DLL launches a seperate thread that must
periodically call the callback functions. While the callbacks work in

I cannot post on another ng, just checking.  Please disregard this
post.
dave

I am converting some code from Fortran.

1. Longs get converted to Doubles before math operations.
2. Doubles are rounded when they are assigned to Longs.

On a form i want to add a control that displays a scrolling X-t
recorder (value against time plotter).
Does anybody know a free (ActiveX) control for this function to be
used with VB6?

Hello all.  I'm trying to format a column in a datagrid and running
into problems.  The code I am using is:
   ssGrid.Columns(3).DataFormat = "#,###.00"
This returns the error "Object does not support this property or

Hi Masters,
I am supposed to migrate dlls which are written in Visual C++ 6.0 to
Visual C++ 2005. As I am an
absolute beginner, I would like to know what would be the right