VB Forum / General 2 / May 2007

I've got an odd problem to solve and I thought this group might help.
I have a small RTB, and a second larger, RTB.  I have about an 8.5 x
11 page worth of text.
I want to use the small RTB as a text preview window.

Heya,
    I'm working on a defragger. To make the file enumeration
faster, I'm reading the master file table directly, and for that I
need a few different structures. UDTs are fine, but when using the

I know the subject line is too confusing. I didnt know how to explain
this so I used what I want.
I had some one do some data entry work for me sometime back. Now this
guy, used his own brains at added time in the format of MM:DD:YYYY

I was advised to use the following code re. MSComm & Scanners.
    If InStr(Buffer, vbCrLf) Then     'or some other terminating
string
          txtText1.Text = Buffer

I have a VB6 application that I use to go out and stop and start
services on remote servers. What I am doing is to shell out and use a
net use command with a user and password  to log onto the server and
then a sc command to either stop or start.

I have a menu (on the local C: drive) created in VB6. When a user
clicks on a button, it runs another program created in VB6 located at
"\\san1\distribution\services.exe"
When services.exe is running, the user has the option of clicking on a

Using calls directly to winmm to play wav or mp3 sound files works
fine. I can get a sound file to loop and I can get multiple sounds to
play at the same time by providing an alias.
I am not talking about the MM control in VB6, I am talking about

I use Visual Basic often to simply certain tasks but I want to be able
to increase the level of complexity of the programs I wirte.  I am
trying to figure out what I will need to make VB programs that can
interact with other programs.  For example, Having a VB program that

I don't know what I'm missing but I have a question.
I have a custom method used to add values called from a subform
control's onExit event.
Private Sub logged_credit_cards_Exit(Cancel As Integer)

Hi Everyone and thanks in advance for your help and advice.
I wrote an application that allows editing of a file by spawing
MicroSoft notepad.  I ran into an error when I found that notepad is
kept in one place in win2000, and another in XP.  can I put

I have an old VB5 application running on a Win98 machine that needs to
be ported to an XP machine running VB6.
The original application is used to calibrate an industrial hardware
product, and has 4 devices connected to the PC via RS232 serial ports.

I'm new in VB programming, i want to create program with VB 6.0 to
checking size one windows file
every 30 minutes periodically. and
if  that file size (larger than)  1 mb --> file will be deleted

When trying to send a document from my application through Outlook,
the system first comes up with:
A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in
Outlook.  Do you want to allow this?

When trying to send a document from my application through Outlook,
the system first comes up with:
A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in
Outlook.  Do you want to allow this?

Hiya all,
    Does anyone know how to turn a single monitor on and off? I'm
not talking about power management, God knows I've searched those
functions. I mean adding a monitor to / removing a monitor from the