VB Forum / General 2 / April 2008

Anyone know if the VB6 IDE is meant to work in Vista 64x?
When I run VB6 on Vista 64x and use the Dir method to look for a file on a
mapped drive it always returns false even though the file does exist. If I
use the explicit server path name to the file i.e.

How does one move objects one pixel at a time in the new powerpoint ?  In the
2004 version this is done by holding the command key and then clicking on the
appropriate arrow.
How does one important an excel chart in the new powerpoint ?  In the 2004

I have the following xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE paymentService PUBLIC "SERVICE" "DTD URL">
<paymentService version="VERSION" merchantCode="MERCHANTCODE">

For my own interest's sake I'd like to interface with my USB GPS. (note,
this is a 'true USB' device, not 'faked with a USB to Serial).
I've got the documentation on the driver for the device, unfortunately its
all C code, and I'm having a tough time making the translation.

listview control in vb 6.0
I have a ListView component with it´s ViwStyle = vsReport. In it I have 3
Coloumns. Example:
With some values on only two columns, like:

Thanks for previous assistance, I have now managed to install this on Vista
I have a string in VB that contains lots of dats seprated by commas
I am trying to think of a simple and easy method of extracting different
values from this text string and placing them into variables.

I would like to make the desktop icon text transparent so the background
wallpaper color shows through. I use XP but do not want to use the drop
shadow option since this makes only white text. Is there a way to write
program that polls the desktop icons, then alters the ...

I have a whole ton of files I want to download. Was thinking I could throw
together a little code to do it.
I've got some old code kicking around to download a given URL, but this page
seems to automagically refresh itself when the data is ready to be

I have a rather large VB6 app that works perfectly in the IDE & closes OK.
However, when I compile the app & run the exe, it works OK but hangs when I
try to close it.
This is an app that has been previously compiled & packaged OK & worked

Let me set up what I am attempting to do. My worksheet has one column
(A) which has a list of movie titles. I have a textbox for user input.
I’m trying to write a function to search the list for text written in
the textbox which then returns a true or false. I’ve found some code

Want to buy VB6 compatible Farpoint Spread OCX software.
Does anyone have an old legitimate copy of the above programming add-in for
sale?

VB6
I'm trying to limit msflexgrid selection to a single row and track
which row is selected.
I have selectionmode set to flexselectionbyrow

I'm getting this error on a customer's machine. The code is:
rPicture.Picture = LoadResPicture(lOldResId + eNewState, vbResIcon)
rPicture is a picturebox and I'm just loading a new picture into it.
Anybody knows what's going on?

Let me set up the problem. I have two columns of data (names of
people) in Excel. I need to see if the names in Column A are the same
in Column B. However, the catch is that the order of the names in both
columns can be different. Also, the maximum number of names in each

I've found a UserControl on PlanetSourceCode and am trying to understand how
it works.
It has the line Picture1.Print and then text is written to the Picture box
but I don't understand how it knows where to write it. Normally in the past