Ok, im new to visual basic i've only coded only math programs and i helped with a snake game,I would like some help on the following things1. Key presses i'd like to know everything about them2.Sounds i'd like to know how to get a sound to play if "Key" is pressed3. Forms, Are there...

Hello guys, Is there anyone in the forum knows how to insert 3D objects.<br/>Thanks in advance.

Alright well, it's hard to find out how to do this.<br/>Basically, I want to have a window or something pop up and let the user choose to set a homepage for my web browser. I'm not sure how I could do that.<br/>Any help is appreciated, I will check back tommorow morning.

Hi everyoneIm trying to make an FTP Server but im not sure what info to send back to the clienti'm ok with the "USER" and "PASS" commands, i just send the codes "331" and "230"Its the "opts" command im stuck with i dont know what info to send back or what to do with the arguments that it sends...

Dear friends,Can anyone help me out? (in some simple language)I am doing a small project with VB 6.0 for analysis of projectile graphically.1. The project in simple words, after feeding in the required parameters, calculates the X,Y coordinates and draws the line indicating the trajectory. My proble...

hello,does anyone know how I can create a program which will allow me to enter a ip address eg. 203.xx.xxx.xxx into a text box and when i click on a buttton it go and find where that ip address is (which Country ect..) ??anyone got any ideas and can it be done in VB?- - -ps. I know there are website...

hi,<br/>I want to find all the file in a folder + subfolder<br/>need to have the full path + filename, is this possbile? is there a standard fucntion to do this?<br/>thanks

Hi,<br/>I want to encrypt the data what ever i have entered in the text box and it should be saved as file. How can i do that?<br/>Please give me the code!

If you download the attached and run sample crash test project, please return and take the poll above. If more than one poll option applies, please select more than one.On XP (maybe not all builds) and maybe Vista, GDI+ can crash IDE. Whether this can occur on compiled apps or not, not yet tested....

i just want to ask a quick question..how can i play a gif animated image on VB?

Hi Friends,My application uses VB6.Startup Form Loads Splash Screen with Version Number. Actually Version number is put in a Label in the splash form. whenever changes comes, i apply the changes & set the version number and compiled then give it to my testing team for testingi.e , if my current app...

Hi all,I am looking for command for testing whether the report template that i want to use exist or not.So the problem is this, in the function to print report, the application is supposed to print the report, using the template. User can print to the printer, or to the screen (print preview). Howev...

hi,i am jaz learning a about using ado data control. it is very difficult for me to find the solution for my probs thats why i seek help.my problem is when i issue a command: adodc1.recordset.delete- it will generate an error message saying."Multiple-steps operation generation errors. Check e...

hi there again. i'm really interested with VB 6 now since i used it for my project. but i'm not quite familiar with APIs. what are they? and those declare statements...why would i need them and when? so unclear to me..<br/>and when i look at the WIN32API.TXT, i don't understand them.....

I am Calling A a function in VC++ COM EXE (.Net 2003) from VB 6.0Its calling perfectly and doing the operations correctly ...but as soon as it returns i am getting Exception and in err.description its giving the value as Method '~' of object '~' failed...I am not able to undersat...

Dear GURUS!I would be grateful if you could help me in the following situation:I had to link an Excel file to a MS Access Data Base and when I did it, I realised that there is a problem with one of the fields in the Excel file, which contains numbers, but is formated (and it is correct) as a Text fi...

is this possible in windows 2003? I need to scan a drive every hour and copy files to a location if they exist, i'd prefer to use vb but i dont think its possible, if it is, has anybody done it or got any advice?<br/>many thanks

I have to create a matching game for one of my classes in vb 6.0 and im doing fine except for one issue. I need to make it so that if the tow images match, the buttons disappear and the user gets a point for matching, I do not know how to get the program to know when the numbers match or when they...

hi<br/>i need to know if a button in another application is enabled or not. I know its hwnd, but i can't find any way to get that property!<br/>thanks in advance.

Hi,I have a listview with a number of columns. I would like to have a checkbox which hides/displays some (not all!) of those columns. While the columns are hidden, they would still be functioning - i.e. an inserted row would still update those columns and i could still read data in those columns....

Hi all.I have a job here, and im no vb expert so i would like some ideas about the best way to do it. (by now, just for the concepts, not concerned about the code yet)Basically, i have a database (created with sql server 2005) in a server with some informations about services executed by the company...

I want help on this.I want to be able for the person who uses this application to be able to change a URL, I can't explain it but this is what I mean.Any of you know RuneScape? Well it's a game, I'm trying to make a high scores chart from it.I want to load a list of usernames from a ....

I made a vb program that launches another program which is not vb.I want to be able to read a section of the launched programs memory into a string in my program.I found this code http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=4115It shows getting pid process handle and walking through the memory.But it...

If you aware of cricket you will know that every over bowled is 6 balls.So after 9 balls have been bowled the overs gone are present as 1.3 overs.So an over looks like this 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6. Then the next over would 1.1, 1.2 etc and then 2.1, 2.2 etc.I don't know how to program...

Hi Guys,<br/>Im a newbie to the VB world, im trying to custom format the date time picker control so that it highlights/displays the monday of the current week.<br/>Any help would be appreciated!

I have an application that open internet explorer browserI try to close it by:(lngScanDocPId is the processID of the explorer window) If lngScanDocPId <> 0 Then AppActivate lngScanDocPId SendKeys "%{F4}", True lngScanDocPId = 0But it does not always work properly.Is there a bet...

I am trying to convert OLE Embedded files back to the original DocSource.We have a VB6 application that OLE embedded all types of files (doc, xls, pdf, htm, bmp, jpg, msg, txt) using the following method.OLEDoc.CreateEmbed DocSourceOpen "c:\docs\" & DocID For Binary Access Read Write As FileNumOLEDo...

Hi Friends,I am a BSc IT Student. I have to make a project, with VB6.0 as front-end and Oracle 9i as back-end. I would like to know :-a) how to connect the text box, combo box etc... to Oracle database. b) how to insert data from VB form to Oracle database.c) how to retrieve data from Oracle datab...

I have some VB6 code, but i dont have the VB6 IDE/liscense. However, I do have Visual Studio 2005 (.NET). Can I use VS 2005 to compile and run the VB6 code?

Hi to everyone.I'm using VB6 and Crystal Reports XI.Does anybody known how to...1) Avoid the Printing Dialog Window that pops after the .PrintReport command.2) Avoid the Printing Records window that appears after the Printing Dialog Window.The app requires that the user dont be able to choose a...

Hi all,I am having a difficulties with "ComboBox.ListIndex = 0" command. I used this because i want to set the current index of the ComboBox into 0. However, if I use this command, it will call ComboBox_Click function, which i do not want to call. Any idea how to set the index into 0 without calling...

Is it posible to use Hyperlink in Visual Basics 6.0

I am creating a login page using VB 6.0. <br/>I want to validate the text box field, ie on pageload cursor(controll) should focus on the username field.<br/>can anybody help me to do this?

Can I send email through VB6.<br/>What are the steps that I shold take care if I have to send attachment with mail???

I want to add text in Listview's Column by click on that particular Column and Row...<br/>Please tell me it is possible in listview

I want to develop a program for monitoring a process in Windows.If a process run for more than 30 minutes an alert mail should be triggered.This program will be scheduled in the Windows scheduler.Please let me know how to develop an alert program and how to schedule it in Windows Scheduler?...

hi all,the problem is Records are being added when i press the Add button. But im using RichTextBox1 because i want formatted data to be saved in the database and also i want data to Retrive data with the same Formatting when i press. First, Previous, Next And Last button.i think i did not make any...

Hello to everybody. This is my first topic here. I search in forums topics and found that also others had problems with zips etc but couldn't help me a lothere is my project which contains all the class etc from vbaccelarator http://rapidshare.com/files/62321147/vb_zips_prob.rar.htmlcan tell me...

Ok, I need to know how a Hardware Identification Key relates to a regkey.dat file. And where I can get software to break or build whatever I need to make a regkey.dat file for another computer if I have the Hardware Identification Key for that computer already.Basically, I have the key and regkey.da...

Hi everyone,I am making using Shell() function to run a command line tool from my VB Application.I am using it to archive a folder. So I am using the code :Shell("command line argument as string")where "command line argument as string" is the DOS command for the particular command line zip tool.The...

Hello all,First of all, I have a game app that was designed to display in 1280x1024 resolution. Small screenie here: http://matrixgames.com/files/games/s347_3difficulty.jpgIt has a picture inserted into the form property, and uses image boxes (NOT picture boxes) and labels mostly.I need to find a way...

Hi Everyone,I have a questions that 1) I have a pictureBox Picture1 and it contains a Bitmap picture , I would like to extract the selected color of the Picture1 to another Picture Box Picture2 , that is If I select a particular pixle by Point(X,Y) and if I get RGB value of (224,35,167) , then I wo...

Hai,I had done one project named as Resume handler. In this we are storing the entire details of candidate resume.I had added one search form in with softaware,qfn,location as search options. The shortlisted candidates are listed in Flexgrid control.My need is If I click on a candidate name in the F...

Hers's what I would like to do:Dim Form1_Text1 = String '(or whatever the syntax) 'then pass this variable to a Function or a 'subroutine, etc.) and use it in the context below:(or maybe just "Me.Text1" would work also??)With Form1_Text...

I am writing an application which uses MS Access DB and I am going to switch to a MS SQL server. What is the best way to connect to the database ODBC connection or refference the database in my code?

Hello FriendsI want a code in VB6 to move files from one folder to another folder of another directory to take created dates of files.Like:-I want to move C:\ram\"files" ,,files which have created date 25 June 2007 to D:\mohan\ folder.Folder may be changed dynamically.Please help me write this code....

Does anyone know the most basic syntax to add an item to a listview control? Ive been looking at this for hours and cant get anywhere with it.

rollno,name are fields of recordset<br/> i want autogeneration of rollno field. pls guide me for this

when i add an record in database using ado that record should get added in alphabetic order at vb user interfcae only.

My program has a form with an icon set in the icon property. On program Properties -> Make tab the icon is set to the forms icon.When the program is run the icon is displayed in the top left corner of the window. It's also displayed in the taskbar with the program name. No problem so far.Wh...