VB Forum / General 2 / January 2008

I want to poll a website,  say every minute or 5 minutes.  I know how
to get the data I want,  I was just curious as to the best way to time
the gets.  I don't need a lot of code,  just some general direction.
Maybe an alternative or two,  or reason why one way is best.

I want to run from a VB6 program an old DOS program.
The DOS program displays some information on the screen. One parameter
(filename) is given to the DOS program on the command line.
For this i use the VB6 'Shell' command with in a string: path/filename

How would you populate a 3rd party html form (web page) with data
from an Excel file or a Database file.  The form has several text
input forms that I manually populate.  Is it possible to automate
this process with VBA etc.? I am a Beginner in VBA!  Any code,

Hey Chris,
Send me another email and make sure you include a proper return
address.. The one you've sent returns to la-la land at mailme.ea and
it really didn't seem to be too kosher from the getgo.

I wonder if someone can help me.
I want to show a label for 1 second, make it invisible for 1 sec., and then
show it again,.. so on.
label1.visible = true

Within new DB only.....When a form is created exclusively in design view, the
form details are visible in print preview; however, if a form is created
using the Wizard or autoform, the form details are not visible in print
preview.  All properties are set to Display when: always ...

In most, if not all, of the Multimedia examples that I'm studying that
use MCI functions, alot of the variables are being declared as being of
type Integer.
I was wondering why some of them aren't being declared as being

We have a published application in a Citrix MetaFrame environment.  Our
application uses Msgbox in several areas of the code.   When the msgbox comes
up and if you click close or the X to close, it closes the msgbox and drops
the application to the taskbar.   It does not close ...

I'm trying to learn VB6 and I'm now busy trying to figure out the
Multimedia functions.
When studying examples, I encounter 2 functions: mciSendString and
SoundPlay.

I need your help. I have been having this strange thing happen: for one
week, the clock on my computer is staying at the same hour, and if i set it
to the right one, it switches back at some point. It goes to 9:00PM and then
counts through one hour and SWITCHES back to 9:00pm.

Hi...friends ,I am making application where i need my appplication to
send a mail to a particular id.
I have to do this without using a browser ( through my application )
In short I want to automat the process of sending a mail

If you put a sentence into a textbox that is wider than the width of
that textbox (no horizontal scrollbar) than the sentence is broken off
at a space. That is nice if you want that.
I need to put sentences/characters in a textbox without that VB6

If you put a sentence into a textbox that is wider than the width of
that textbox (no horizontal scrollbar) than the sentence is broken off
at a space. That is nice if you want that.
I need to put sentences/characters in a textbox without that VB6

I've got some software I need to distribute.  The Install program is
too large to send via e-mail, I don't want to burn a bunch of discs,
and it's impratical to visit each site personally.  I've been looking
into putting the install on a web site and running a small program

i am trying to figure something out. the facts:
- i have an Access 2000 app that ive converted to Access 2007 (windows
Vista) that uses VB.
- it uses several external references, DLLs and an EXE.