I wish to give XP look to my controls

HiIve been programming in Visual Basic for a couple of years, mainly through college, but it has usually been simple coding.I have recently started making small games as that is what i am interested in; the games i have made are only text adventures with limited graphics at the moment but i am hopi...

I have a query:insert into tableDetail (ID_Client, Value) values (25, 2000)In MS Access I put between [] the reserve word Value:insert into tableDetail (ID_Client, [Value]) values (25, 2000)But my conection don't support this query, in MS Access is Ok, but in VB 6 send:Sintax error in INSERT IN...

I want to include some help information along with parts of my app. I'm ditching my CHM help files and using regular .html files. I would like to add a WhatsThis help icon to the titlebar of some of my forms (or to one form, depending on which tab is active), but i would need to be notified whe...

I expect the font size of caption of a form is independent of System. So how can I do that? Thanks for your inputs.

TargetPatch LinkInLinkHiThis is my code:----------------------dim ObjShell as new WshShellSim ObjShortcut as new WshShortcutSet ObjShortcut = ObjShell.CreateShortcut ("C:\xxx.lnk")----------------------' And I Get Folder/File Not Found (ObjShortcut.TargetPath) kCoz he Pointing 2 defrant targetW...

Hi guys<br/>I want to know how I could change the look for my vb form, it got to be a free development tool, are there any solutions??<br/>Thanks<br/>Mark

I created my own User control which has a Picture property. When I use that control in my project and load a picture at design mode Is OK. ButMy problem is when I load a picture at runtime it shows an invalid use of property error.MyControl.Picture = LoadPicture ("C:\Screen.jpg")If any one know how...

Hai,Assume an external application window has 5 command buttons. Assume the Buttons are arranged Paralaly.All 5 Button's Captions are "This is a Button". So the Button text and the Classe name are Same for all Buttons.Now i need to send a BM_CLICK Message to the 3rd Button using SendMessage API...

My program stops responding, and I don't know why. I simplified it as much as I could to try and isolate the problem, but I still don't know why it's not working right. Here is the simplified code. (I had tried adding sleep, but it still doesn't help, it just makes the caption co...

Hai,Many programs have a menu to 'Check for Update'. when clicked, a please wait message appear, in a few seconds a message will show 'New updates Available' or 'No new updates Available'.My question is, In a professionl program, what happens behind the seen?Which contr...

Hi All, I have a webservice written in VB.NET. I want to use this WebSevice in a VB 6.0 application hence using VS Command Prompt wsdl http://localhost/WSPM/Service1.asmx?wsdl, i created a Service1.cs file. Then using another command prompt csc /t:library Service1.cs, created Service1.dll and then r...

I actually i foun only 1 google search result for this API/Function.<br/>CreateDCNull()<br/>Can you please tell me, what are the arguments required by CreateDCNull API/Function ?if you can give me the documentation, will be appriciated.

Hey!I'm writing a program to simplify my major duty at work. ;) Love it. Anyway... I have the program open a file of about 6000 lines. It's simply a text file containing UPC, Order Num, Batch Num, Desc, Etc. All kinds of information regarding retail products. It reads a single line, then c...

Hai all,i really did not find a VB6/Graphic forum here. so i decided to post this in to VB6 Forum. Please excuse me.Qustion : i use this code to draw a frame on the Display (Screen) in the specified rect region. problem is, after drawing the fram, how do i erase it if requir?'Creates a handle t...

Please can somebody give me the sketch of how to populate Ms Excel Worksheet with Recordset values.. thanks

hey guys!I have manage that I have change a bit to make a new skinning program but just for test, well there are no system menu to be included when I run the test and I have checked through with the taskbar where the system menu usually to show on when you click on with the right mouse button. I wan...

In SQL In run Qry "Select DT From Employees" it returns Date in its <br/>default format like '12/31/2006' or 'MM/DD/YYYY'.<br/>I want to run an Qry that return date in 'DD/MM/YYYY' Format.

i have assigned a password n username to the ms-access database file....now that database is not opening through code..."it says password required",i want to write a code to access the table by givin the said password & username through code,,,, could anybody help me out....i'm usin adodb conne...

Hi Everybody,<br/> <br/>Is there any Windows API, which provides all the properties of every page of a tif file in VB :confused:

I want to log conditions in Mercury Test Director 8.0 using VB. For that first I selected Mercury TestDirector 80 Client UI in Components(ctrl+T). By doing so I got some tools in Toolbox. From those Tools I selected TDFrameX, and placed that in my Form.I don't know how to proceed after that. Pl...

I have a form where I can set it to stay on top. On this form, I have a menu entry for an about box which is modal.In normal operation, ie no staying on top, the about form displays properly and the mainform won't get focus until the about box is dismissed. This is good.When I select the main f...

i'm trying to write a code that will copy each row and insert this copied row write after the row so i'll have each row twice.there is the code i'm writing: findlast2 = Sheets("Task List").Range("a1").End(xlDown).Row For i = 3 To findlast2 Rows(i).Select Selection.Cop...

Hi,I am working on an activeX control. I want the control to check the registry and exit if no values found.Details:Here is what I require.1. I start a new project and add myControl from the Project>Components... to the project.2. Now I place an instance of the control on the form.3. The control...

I'm just getting started with this project. I downloaded the ODBC driver and installed it and seem to connect to the database, but as soon as I try to run a simple query it just hangs (at: oRs.open). My dev machine is running Apache on WindowsXP, the code below is VB6 and ADO 2.8. I wrote a qui...

i would like to make query from VB6 to MS Access. This query will select all record that contain '&'. my sql statement is "select * from main where remark like '*&*'".I can't get any record. I make same query in MS Access it's show 5record.Please help...

I want to write to XML file but my data contain char that XML not supported such as '&'. How i can solve this problem.

Hi All :) , I have a simple issue.I am using some functions of a DLL through my VB code which opens a file with some third party API's, but unfortunatly if a corrupted file comes, the DLL hangs and and returns to the VB code, now VB is unable to move this file to the Error Folder as it already...

Hello, I have an VB EXE application that receives several parameters through the command line. The only way I found to read these parameters is by parsing the whole string that came to my application through 'Command function' and separate manually the parameters. Does anyone know a bett...

I basically have four textboxes...example text1,text2,text3 and text4...my question is how do it in such a way that it checks if for example text1 has the same input as text3 and so on ?.....

hi friends,The program which i desgined to shows the icon in the system tray is not showing on some computer. Though it is working in the background, could see in the task manager window. With some computer its quite ok. Please help me to find out the reason for this problem. thanks in adv...

Hi,<br/>Is there ActiveX control equivalent to - wshAPIToolKitObject that I can use in Vista ?<br/>If not, in which other DLLs or OCXs can I find the APIs that are a part of this control ?<br/>Thanks

hallo guys i 'm tryin to log - in the databasethrough code....database is in ms-access file....i have been successfully logged in database while usin dao & rdo in code...but i'm having problems in adodc.....i have tried givin password & username in the property window of ado....but it says...

hi,<br/>i am getting Error "ODBC's SQLInstallDrivermanager failed" while installing vb6.0 on win2003 server<br/>Wt could be the solutions.

How do I copy a backup file over an existing file from within a VB application?For example; what is the syntax if I want to copy c:\data\datafileBackup.mdb over top of an existing file c:\data\datafile.mdb from within my application. I am using a file as a test database and I want to be able too res...

spreadsheet - display problem when printedGood afternoon everyone,I have a minor display problem on my spreadsheet.My module runs perfectly to generate a spreadsheet but when the spreadsheet is printed, some of the data in the row does not show. You can see half of the characters hidden beneath the...

Hi - I've mad a little program that searches a map and puts the name of area into a listbox (See attachment) BTW - At the moment only the northeast works because I haven't programmed the restAnyway the problem is that when I click on the north east another map comes up which is fine BUT......

Hey guys I have not used Microsoft Access Databases before in Visual Basic and I need a bit of help with what I am trying to accomplish.I have my database setup where the main table; INFORMATION is used to log data into. It has the following fields, with 'Computer_Room' having a manual loo...

Hai, I am having a VB source code inside that we are having a Actuate API. Using the source code & API we created a dll in VB6.0 for our application. But its not working bcoz of version compatabilty issue. Actuate Corp. advised us to use Visual Studio .NET 2003 version for compiling th...

hi,i'm trying to create an app that will be called (activated) by another app, and receive a paremeter from the same app that called it.i' tried to look around but did not find anything... :(what should i look for/under?how do i craete an exe that will be executed and in the same time reci...

I have to process image data acquired by a digital USB camera.To control the camera there is a DLL. To access the image data there is a function to get the pointer to the image data. The VBdeclaration for the function is: Public Declare Function iss_GetImageMem Lib "uEye_api.dll" (ByVal hCam As Long...

How to hide process from task manager in VB 6.0<br/>or Is is possible that no one (including administrator) from killing that process

Can this be done? I am listing the days for each month but instead of writing them all out instead of putting If .text = April like below. Can I put in If .text = "April" or "June" or "Septheber" somehow?If ComboMonth.Text = "April" ThenComboChildDobDay.AddItem "1"ComboChildDobDay.AddItem "2"etc......

Help plz...I simplified the code as much as possible. The problems still exists with the code below. It slowly eats memory until my computer can't properly display things on the monitor, and then stops responding.Option ExplicitPrivate Declare Function GetPixel Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, _...

I have a form in which I 'animate' a picture with a timer. I call this form during a long process in my main form with a call to frmAnimate.showThe form comes up, but then the time event never get fired, I'm assuming because control get sent back to the form calling the new one. If...

Is there a way to get LDAP Authentication to work on a Win98 Client?

Hi guys , im kind of a noob to this - Anyways , i want to use the current username in a sendkeys. Ive tried strUser = getCurrentUser and then sendkeys "Hello " & strUser.. It shows "Hello "Ive tried %USERNAME% and USERNAME in the sendkeys.. (sendkeys "Hello %USERNAME%" and sendkeys "Hello USERNAME"I...

Frendz...I need your help...<br/>I need to read dbase database using VB 6.0 but the file is .dat file. Any one can tell me how i can read it from my app built using VB 6.0? I've tried to convert it to .dat file, by changing it's extension. But it doesn't work. Thanks for ur help...

I have a form where you can upload images and all that works fine but then I have a 'clear all' command button that clears the formEverything works fine but I can't seem to write the line correctly needed to clear whatever image is in the picture boxAny advise?EDIT: Doh! Found the ans...

Hello everyone, I am trying to manipulate an Excel spreadsheet. I want to search the A column for a string from a text box. I did this in Excel and generated the "Find" line by recording a macro. I can't get it to work in my VB6 app. What am I doing wrong ? Dim mailmwo As Excel.Applicat...