VB Forum / General 2 / December 2007

i am trying to install VB6 onto a Windows Vista Enterprise machine.
everytime i try, it reports this error:
"The installation wizard detected that you are not a member of the
administrators group, which is required for running the installation

Long time ago I have experience running OLE DLL in a debug mode by
launching two instances of VB 6 development environment: one for the
OLE DLL project, another one for Project using OLE DLL.
Now I have try the same technique and it does not work.

Is there something I am missing?  Why does the Beep statement execute after
I disable the scroll bar and manually change it's value?  I'm using VB5.
Any info would be greatly appreaciated.
G.Doucet

actually i am writing this post in a bit of confusion regarding the
placement of my question in this group,if this is in wrong place
please guide me to the right group.
ok now the scenario

Since this is now a discontinued and unsupported product from
Microsoft, is it ok to develop and sell software made with it now?  I
still have my old copy from back in my college days.

Good day,  I am new to VB and have had to adopt an old system based on
VB6. Now we need different versions of the project to export to our
various clients. How do I rebuild the project for specific clients in
VB6? Thank you for your help.

I have two programs and rather try and intergrate them into a single app I'd
like to keep them separate and just send data (a few <10 character strings
everything 2 minutes or so - nothing heavy) between the two.
What's the best way to do this? I assume I can use the SendMessage ...

Having displayed instructions to the user I want to halt the program so that
the user can read & digest them. Then when she is ready she presses a key to
continue the operation of the program. How do I do this please?

I have just converted an application to VS2005.  It was previously converted
from VB6 to VS2003 and has many global variables. The application works
perfectly when running in debug in my development environment.  After
creating an .MSI and installing on a computer that has VS2005 ...

Could someone show me how I could write a little code
to open 'A.bmp' in Paint, and save it from Paint in 16
colours by using SendKeys or some better way? Thanks
very much.

is there an easy way to format the text of a button so that it is
written horrizontally but shifted 90 degrees to the right. as in the
letters are right side up if u turn ur head?

The result from CSng("3.5") apparently depends on the locale. If I try it
on a Spanish PC, I'll get 35 back instead of 3.5  I can "fix" it by call
CDbl() on "3,5" instead, but I need this to work with both "3.5" and "3,5"
no matter the locale.

is there any way to change the value of a static variable?
i am trying to a make a reset button for a very simple game which uses
a counter declared both publically and within the class as static.
The counter counts up by 1 every time a user clicks a button so that