VB Forum / General 2 / June 2007

Does anyone know of any code or method that will let me convert text
into a JPG image in VB6?
Text to a bitmap format would do at a pinch, as I could probably get
and automatically run a bitmap to JPG converter command line tool or

I have been looking long and hard for the Visual Basic .NET 2003
Resource Kit CD. I heard somewhere that it might not be available
anymore. Is that true, or does anyone know where I might be able to
find it? I've just started using VB 2003, version 2005 is not an

We have an application, which has in a recent release begun to start the
installer for *another* application when started.
The application in question installs, but when started launches another
installer. This behavior has been observed on XP SP2 computers.

In my app I use a Treeview control to display a hierarchical structure
similar to the way Windows explorer shows folders.
Each node displays, in addition to the name, also a number showing
how many items are in that node.

My wife wrote a time card program for my small business in VB 6.0 back
around 2002.  This program suites my needs perfectly, I don't know if there
is anything like this commercially, maybe there is, but I'm happy with this
program and have no need to change it.  The machine it is ...

I followed the instructings at this site
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/04/26/create_dll.html?page=1
for creating a windows dll from visual basic by changing the args to
the vb compiler and linker.

Hi,
Problem issue 925522, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925522/en-us (“An FTP
session that is copying a file from an FTP server appears to stop responding
on a client computer that is running Windows Server 2003”) is still there,

Anyone know why I might get an overflow error (error number 6) when I
execure the follow statement
recCount = recCount + 1
the value for recCount is  32767 prior to the fail.

Is there a way of getting the control panel settings for regional and
language settings such as date format or simply the country setting?
Much appreciate any help here.

Hi all! I used to use Mabry's HTTP/X ActiveX control for accessing
websites via HTTP in Visual Basic 6. It was the best control I've ever
seen but now they have closed their doors without a trace.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good ActiveX Control for VB6

Is it possible to program my VB 6 app so that when a user right-clicks on a
label at run time it brings up a floating menu (is this a contextual one?)
with a list of pre-defined options and when the user selects one of these
options I can then pass the value and label id/hidden ...

I'm seeing a problem in VB 6.0 when concatenating strings that have Hebrew
characters and parenthesis.
Based on a login and user name we generate an output like "login (user
name)".  For example: "strejo (Sergio Trejo)".  We use a statement:

I have to prepare several diagrams in a PictureBox which should then
be copied into a PowerPoint file. How do I do this in VB 6? This is
not for an animation. There are just a lot of diagrams to be prepared
in series in the same PictureBox or on the Form and then put into

I designed an Excel spreadsheet with a range of VBA features, which
include check boxes and drop-down lists.
Another user has complained that when they tick a check box or select
an option from a drop-down list, their choice is not "sticking". In

Im using VB6 and am Trying to write a plugin for Last.fm that needs to
talk to a HTTP server with GET and POST options.
I've almost got it working using the Winsock control, but it seems a
little tempremental.