VB Forum / General 2 / December 2007

I have an old device that connects to the LPT port of an PC. The
output from the device goes to the LPT port using the control/status
lines (no data lines are used). The only signal (handshake) that goes
to the device also goes through a control line. The program on the PC

Since it doesn't seem to have been said may I wish a Happy Christmas and
New Year to all the folk here who have been so generous in sharing their
knowledge. I don't know what I'd do without it. Thanks to you all.
Regards

Is there anyway to stopp a function in before hand?
My problem is that I have a for-loop as shown below:
Private Function Count()
   For i = 30 To 0 Step -1

I want to add a *.wav file to my program so that when the operator makes a
menu selection, the *.wav file automatically plays.  I'm using a MDI form as
my main form and the multimedia form cannot be placed on it (so it seems).
I can put the multimedia control on another form and ...

I'm an absolute VB beginner...
Here's what I'd like to do:
I'd like to run the macro (below the signature) on a specific
PowerPoint slide during presentation. I know I can execute

I am writing a VB6 program that uses a lot of select case statements
and i like to optimize this program for speed.
Now i wonder which of the two statements is faster:
Case 1

I want to add a *.wav file to my program so that when the operator makes a
menu selection, the *.wav file automatically plays.  I'm using a MDI form as
my main form and the multimedia form cannot be placed on it (so it seems).
I can put the multimedia control on another form and ...

I am in the process of upgrading a VB 6 app to VB.NET and I am getting an
error saying that I am missing the .frx files from my package.  This program
is five years old and I must have not saved those files.  The computer I
used is long gone so there is no hope there.  I think ...

Greetings to all of you folks.
I have connected my VB6 program with an Access 2003 database.
I create a link from the database with ODBC Connection to a SQL Server
database table. The connection is created and I am able to see the contents

Many console applications will return an errorlevel or exit code after
completion.  I need to catch this exit code and based on this, perform
additional tasks.  I'm struggling to find a solution without use of external
batch or scripts, and keep it all self-contained in one VB6 app.

I have used the MousePointer at design time and Up until now I have only
used these 2 at run time
MousePointer = vbHourglass
MousePointer = vbDefault

I am seeking either code, or links to code that demonstrate calling a
web service that returns a binary object that must be saved as a pdf.
I have googled around, but am not sure how to declare and manage the
returned object. The web service accepts an array of name value pairs

I am currently trying to redesign a game I have been working on a
while, and I have hit a stumbling block. I'll try to succintly
describe the problem:
Currently, my game does collision detection as the standard, good

I need to be able to search a directory (chosen by the user of the
software), for files of a certain type. (adding each file at a time is
stupidly long when you have 17,000 files).
What I would like is to end up with an 1d array with the filepaths as a

I have a form without a control box/caption bar and am trying to display a
new form on top of this one (again no control box or bar) but everytime I
load it the first old disappears. I've tried .Visible = True and .Show but
neither works.