Hi;Can anyone recommend a good program that will document my program interfaces including ocx's, class's, modules etc. We need to automate some of this process as everyone knows how hard it is to get user (programmer and enduser) documentation to come into existence after code is written....

I am converting an "old" excel form made in VB for apps. to VB6.0. The listbox control seems to have drastically changed. The listbox I need is one that displays 4 columns of data and I can add and remove data to the rows, scroll vertically and select the entire row. The VB6.0 listbox only lets m...

hi, I try to call a C++ Dll. When i do it in a Standard Exe , it works fine . ( only after compile and run the .exe, because in debug mode the Dll returns me nulls pointer i think ) i try to call the dll functions via an ActiveX and it breaks on " Error Method '~" of object '~' failed...

Thanks by you Help<br/>I'm trying to make a DLL on VB50 which will receive an string when I call, but I have problems in order to do that, maybe you have an Example about how yopu create it and how you call it on a VB Application.

I want to know how to get Excel like Title bar??<br/>Thanks<br/>Pavi

I am looking for the code for the open common dialog box. I want to create my own open dialog box and I am wondering where I can get this code. I am not sure how to code the drive, directory, and file boxes. <br/>Thank you<br/>Gary

How can I get the charpos, I mean row and coloumn, in a RichTextBox?<br/>I want to display the values in the statusbar.<br/>I tried the function GetLine(charpos), but it is not useable for this task.<br/>Tanks for your help.

Does any one have any example code for opening a word templete, pushing something out to a bookmark and then printing?

Does any one have any example code for opening a word templete, pushing something out to a bookmark and then printing?

please give me the vb code that will make a checkbox called "resolve issue" set to true.

How to get a Gradient Titlebar in VB

I have several push buttons in a form. <br/>When a button has got focus, I want to change that button's color to red.<br/>How I can do that?<br/>Thanks in advance.

I have encountered a problem the writing codes to create the tables in excel worksheet. Therefor I hope to get some suggestions and recommendation to solve my problem. Thanks a lots for your helps. <br/>Vivien Lee

The idea behind this Discussion board is to post questions, answers and other useful information. There are already plenty of great usenet newsgroups. If you have access to these newsgroups you might consider posting to them. Some of the benefits of this Discussion board:1. Relatively spam free.2. A...

How do i get to know the exact RTF text height in an RTF so that i can set the RTF height correctly.Requirement:I need to resize the rtf depending on the text that is entered in the rich text box or inserted onto the rtf directly from the DB. The purpose of the rtf is to provide the user of a edit...

I made an app that is sizeable, but i disabled the maximize box. i want it so it can either be minimized or if you click on its icon in the tray have it return to its normal state. it does those fine, but if you left click on the app icon in the upper left corner, the menu alows you to size it. how...

I made an app that is sizeable, but i disabled the maximize box. i want it so it can either be minimized or if you click on its icon in the tray have it return to its normal state. it does those fine, but if you left click on the app icon in the upper left corner, the menu alows you to size it. how...

I am new to Vb but have done alot of VBA with Access. I now wish to build a small utility that will open WinZip or PkZip in the background and then I can copy a couple of database files to it and then close Winzip/Pkzip after the copying is complete. I would also like to find out how to close a open...

Hi, in my application i used the Toolbar and Statusbar controls. In my Toolbar i was added the imagelist buttons.For each buttons has the tooltip and key valus. If i move my mouse to that buttons, i want display the tooltip text in my statusbar panels. It is Possible. I tried...

I want to print a text form a RichTextBox.I use SelPrint commDia.hDC (returned from Printer Dialog)My problem is, that in the Printer Dialog Box the Landscape-Mode is set instead of Portrait-Mode.I can't find a property or flag to set it to portrait mode.Can anyone help me?Thanks Felix....

I have been programming in Foxpro for last 5 years. Now I want to master VB as<br/>front end and Oracle as back end. Please suggest me which book to start with . <br/>I know Oracle a bit, but I am new for VB. <br/>Thanks

Hi,Assuming that the collection is being used to store a collection of CStudent - user defined class storing info about a student.At present we make use of a name formation algorithm and form unique property names and write values into the Property Bag using WriteProperties method.For reading, we u...

Hello, I have to port an app i wrote with MFC to VB. I used strtok (or whatever it is) to tokenize the command line i had to parse. It worked beautifuly. However VB lacks good string manipulating functions as I have seen. Is there anything in VB that can tokenize a string as like in C? Any code...

Hello, I have to port an app i wrote with MFC to VB. I used strtok (or whatever it is) to tokenize the command line i had to parse. It worked beautifuly. However VB lacks good string manipulating functions as I have seen. Is there anything in VB that can tokenize a string as like in C? Any code...

Can't we make some visual controls dynamcally such as TextBox, HScrollBar ?<br/>Should hide control in design time and then show in runtime ?<br/>Help will be appreciate

Hi frineds, I would like to enumerate all the keys under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ and put them in a collection or variant array .Can any one help me with the code how to achieve it?Afterwards i would like to traverse the collection using "for each next" and domy own stuff on that.If any one know...

hi, i tried to use the eg.code given for series object of mschart control (vb 5). but this gives a error.please help. is there any other method to draw smooth curves using mschart control. the eg. codeThe following example sets smoothing for all series in a three-dimensional line chart.***...

For a particular dsn how to extract the database name with path to which it is<br/>configured.(Access database)?

Hi, I have a Text editor, where in the user has the otpion to use the FIND and REPLACE tool. Now like the standard editors( which support Find or Search), I need to keep the form active on my application as long the user closes this form and also at the same time, need to work on the editor as well....

When trying to in stall Visual Basic 6, I ran into an error that said it could not install VBSCC.DLL! Could some one please please please send it to me?<br/>Thanks!<br/>GregS

I made a button Active-X control in VB 5.0. It has some extra features, like a LED, etc. Since it is based on VB CommandButton I can specify a hotkey by putting an ampersand (&) in front of the desired letter in the Caption property. When I test this control in a VB form the hotkey works fine. Howev...

I have a problem with control arrays, which I would be interested to see if anyone has an answer for. If I have a control array of 'UIElement' controls I can access their individual positions as follows:UIElement(0).LeftUIElement(0).Top etc.However I can't do the following:dim uie as...

Hi,<br/> I am using vb3.0 and corba (ORBIXCOMet). Can any one suggest how to connect VB 3.0 which is 16 bit to CORBA which suppors 32 bit operations.<br/>TIA,<br/>Nagaraj

I am having trouble adding a bitmap to a picturebox with pre determind size , i want to resize the picture so that it fits in the picture box, with out resizing it in a paint progarm. any ideas?

I am having trouble adding a bitmap to a picturebox with pre determind size , i want to resize the picture so that it fits in the picture box, with out resizing it in a paint progarm. any ideas?

How do I validate whether the entered IP ADDress is right or not ?

I want to prevent a form to be moveed over an other form.<br/>Does anyone knows an event that occurs when a form is moved, so that I can check if it is moved over the other form.<br/>The resize event does not occurs when a form is moved.<br/>Thanks for your help.<br/>Felix.

Hi,<br/>I work with Informix 7 and Visual Basic 5.0.<br/>Which ODBC driver may I use ?<br/>Thanks !!<br/>Federica Pavese<br/>fedepavese@bolsamza.com.ar

I've been trying to build an ActiveX control, comprised of a Picture Box. When I goto UserControl_Initilization, and include a line like: Picture1.Line (10,10)-(100,100),vbRed nothing appears. If I move the line down to the Picture1.Paint method, then it works. Why wont this work in a UserCo...

How can I control the position in a .wav file in vb5.<br/>I want to have the possibility to rewind the message and to play it from the position I want.<br/>Do you know how to use the waveInGetPosition function for a MCI wave.

Hi,Do anyone know how to call an assembly program from visual basic. I mean I am not talking about shell the program rather calling it as loaded dll/exe. Actually we had some asm routine writtern in ASM32 for WindowNT 4.0 and we would like to call some function from vb interface. If anyone know if...

We have a class for matching and searching strings using regular expressions<br/>This class is available as VC++ code . This is available as a dll. How can I make use of this Dll, the class and the functions in the class in VB5.<br/>Are there any class for regular expressions in VB itself....

Im trying to detect either a mouse click or a keypress while runing a for/next loop. is there a command that will allow me to check for such events while inside a loop.for x=1 to infinity'i want to check for a mouse or keypress herenextas you probably know while aloop is running all operations...

Im trying to detect either a mouse click or a keypress while runing a for/next loop. is there a command that will allow me to check for such events while inside a loop.for x=1 to infinity'i want to check for a mouse or keypress herenextas you probably know while aloop is running all operations...

Hi friends,<br/> Can any one tell me how to get the date on which the file<br/>is written.<br/>Thanking you<br/>pavan

Hi,I am developing an application in ASP, the code is written in VB ( ActiveX DLL's are created)and they are called in ASP . I checked first by writing a DLL which makes square of the integer that is passed and returns the result back which worked fine when it was called in ASP!But, then I wro...

When making a multi-columned combo box(or List Box) in Visual Basic, how can I make the box actually "Display" the whole selection of the multi-columned rows? When I make the Combo boxes currently, I get the multi-columns of data to display, but when I "Select" my row choice, I do not get an actual...

Help!I am reading a table from Access using DAO that has one text field and three booleans (yes/no). I want to display in a scrolled list the text item with three check boxes next to it. You should be able to click directly on each of the three check boxes against each item. I am not worried about b...

hello, I have spawned a win32 console app from my vb app, using the shell command in vb. I need to cleanly kill this app from my app, it has to be cleanly shutdown, so it can properly clean up. is this possible? if i hit cntrl-c from the command prompt it works. can this be done from vb?thanks,...

hello, I have spawned a win32 console app from my vb app, using the shell command in vb. I need to cleanly kill this app from my app, it has to be cleanly shutdown, so it can properly clean up. is this possible? if i hit cntrl-c from the command prompt it works. can this be done from vb?thanks,...