VB Forum / General 2 / March 2008

my Problem is this, I meed to schow the character "Ω" at a label in my
program in VB 6. Everytime I get the character "?" (at designtime and
also at runtime).
I think I must the program (or the label) tell to use the charset ...

I have a program I developed with Visual Basic 6.0 that will send off
an e-mail
using the VBSENDMAIL function
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=109

i am facing some what a weird problem when i my program. it has been
working good for the past 3 or 4 months suddenly when sometimes the
power goes off and gets turned on back after 5 to 10 mins the last
data inserted into the table is once again inserted and creates a

Hello to all,
from time to time the program which i am currently working
on crashes with an "error 5" when unloading a specific form.
I found a solution to the problem, but still it looks strange

I am working on an application made with VB6. I am not very familiar
with VB6, I know more C++.
When I open the .vbg file, I find that the application is made of
several projects.

VB6
I have an app which uses the Common controls Toolbar. When the mouse
hovers over a button, its purpose is read by a speech engine. (This is a
program for dyslexic users).  I identify which button the mouse is over

I want to do subclassing in my class module.
It this possible?
I called OldWindowProc = SetWindowLong(myForm.hWnd, GWL_WNDPROC,
AddressOf NewWindowProc) but error occurs at compile time like

I'm designing a program and need to get access to the current volume level.
Does anyone know how to do it? I've looked on Google but only get references
to hard drive volumes and settting the volume.
Cheers,

I have several forms in my VB6 app that offer a variety of dialogs and
I'm wondering if there is any preference as to where to put code that
needs to be run when a form is called from a main menu click.
Options are in the calling form's code in the menu_click sub or in the

I have a customer complaining that all textboxes in my app (built with VB6)
appear  deactivated (he can't type anything in them).
This guy is the first one ever to mention this behavior and the only thing
special about him is that he is using a Chinese version of Windows ...

when i shut down or restart xp i get an error that says"program failed to
initialize because windows station is shutting down." how do i fix this,
should i worry? never had this until a few days ago. nothing new installed.

Are you informed what is the job description at the moment you started
your job? There are many candidates for a certain job that has no idea
at all about this matter.
Job description may be of less importance to the employer but having

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In my VB6 app, I create an Excel application with the following code
line :
Dim xlApp as Object
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")