VB Forum / General 2 / November 2007

Any project I load (including new ones), whenever I go to add a
component it says "Out Of Memory" and won't let me add the component.
I searched around Google for an answer to this for hours with no
success.

I would like to print a form to a printer so it is centered on the page in
either Portrait or Landscape Mode. So far it only Prints in the upper left
corner. How do I make it print somewhere else on the page?
frmMain.PrintForm

How can a visual basic funtion get the cell it's modifying? I am using
visual basic 6
TIA,
scott

There are a million ways of determining the operating Windows version in
VB 6. The clever ways work more reliably than others, but I am looking for
a quick and dirty way to determine the Windows version by the presence or
absence of some file(s).

I use a program that has an option to make Icon Backs (text) transparent so
the Desktop Wallpaper colour shows through. How is this done?
Jim Robertson
Email: jimrobertson@mts.net

I have created a table with 5 fields, street, street line 2, city,
state
and zip.  After I dragged those fields into the form, I named them
lblStreet, lblStreetLine2, lblCity, lblState and lblZip.  The lblSteet

I get ASCII data from a data bus that delivers a 12-bit signed short
datatype. I need to convert this value into a VB integer, so that I
can further work with the data.
What I receive in effect are two bytes, as ASCII data in hex. An

Is there a vb skinner that works with the vb6 IDE in Vista.
I've tried vbskinner http://www.visual-basic.com.ar/
I keep getting the message when I try to register the .ocx as a component
that it can't be done. (Windows Vista - logged in as administrator)

I'm using VB6.
I have a form with different controls, and a timer that execute some
code.
when the user close the program, if the code executed by the timer

I inherited the following ghastly piece of spag code, with lots of gotos.
Also shown is my attempt to resolve it without any gotos. The only thing
that worries me is that in order to avoid a while...wend being interleaved
with a for...next loop, I used the device of setting the ...

I'm using a ListView object in my VB6 project. This ListView is sometimes
loaded with more than 32767 items.
Whenever an item with index greater then 32767 is clicked, the ItemClick
event comes with the first item, not with the clicked one. For items below

I have got and old version of VB -- Visual Basic 5.0 -- with some additional
components, especially Microsoft Rich Textbox Control 5.0 -- file
windows\system32\richtx32.ocx.
It worked very well under Win 2K, Win ME, Win XP.

my VB6.0 application comes with a help file in the old file format hlp.
Now I know that this does not work under Windows Vista. Although Microsoft
has a special download version of WinHlp32.exe for Windows Vista, some of my
customers have problems with installing it, and Microsoft ...

I need a control on a dialog box that will enable me to brows 'my
computer' and select multiple files from multiple folders spread
across nultiple drives at one go and add these selected files to a
list box.

I've created some reports in CR 7 and VB6 which connect to an SQL
Server2000 database. Then I've created the Setup program by using the
VB Deployment Wizard. The problem is that in some (not all) Windows XP
machines.