Visual Basic

Modal/NonModal forms
According to the ancient tomes of VB 6 help, once a form has been shown as one type (modal or nonmodal) it's type cannot be changed. I can certainly understand why, but it would also certainly be nice if it could. My situation is the ability to add table entries on-the-fly. For example, suppose you are keyin... 20 Jul 2008 21:42

ListView: how to detect if the item is selected with the first mouse click?
Hello, When the item is selected I need to enable both: cmdDelete btn and mnuDelete (mouse right click pop-up menu) and if there is not item selected both must be disabled. The problem with the code I use (see below) is that when user change the selected item (or when user select item for the first time) the cod... 20 Jul 2008 20:41

External Application Start
VB6 I need to See if a .exe application is "registered" then Start it up with command prameters if it is not "registered" then Start it up knowing where it exists with command parameters How do I do that? e.g. pseudo-code If IsReg(Editor.exe) then StartExe Editor.exe filename argument ... 21 Jul 2008 18:14

GDI+ hackaround
(As one has maybe noticed by my last posts) I am drawing a lot of GDI+ objects, and they take an awful lot of time to render. For example I need to render about 60 buttons, and it takes about 300 ms which makes the app appear totally sluggish. Can you give me an advice? Shall I learn to tweak GDI+ to the max or ... 19 Jul 2008 18:06

VB 2005 and passing a parameter...
Can someone please help me out with an example of passing a parameter in my sql string. What I want to do is use the text value in a combo box as the parameter in the statement where" select * from tblAssets where Asset = cboAsset.text. Thank you, Bill ... 29 Jul 2008 08:32

Excel 2007 Chart in VB6 Program
I have another thread in the VB group and was told to post to these two groups so sorryfor the multi-post. Ill post there again just in case folks want to follow the thread. So I've had a Visual Basic 6 app (as an EXE) that has worked great for the last 9 years or so. Up until Excel 2003 I have had to make minimi... 19 Jul 2008 11:57

save a word document to a byte array
Hi All, I need to read a word document to a binary file. I want to search the word document very fast with a regular expression. To do so I thought of reading it into a binary file. Somewhere I read you can save the text from the document into a byte array. Someone have an example of this? Regards Marco ... 20 Jul 2008 15:33

Determine if file name is legal?
I have a VB6 program that creates files. The file names are assembled from various components such as -Time_of_day -User input -Fixed elements I would like to know before trying to open/create a file that the file name is legal on the machine (XP/Vista in varying national settings) on which it is running. ... 22 Jul 2008 09:35

Excel 2007 Chart in VB6 Program
So i've had a Vb6 app that has worked great for the lasy 9 years or so. Up until Excel 2003 I have had to make minimial changes for it to work properly. The app has an embedded Excel chart through an OLE container. Now that the office has updated to Excel 2007 i have made some changes to the code for it to wor... 19 Jul 2008 11:57

Rt Click Menu: Adding Images
To anyone that can help: I would like to images into a right click menu I have for an Access application. So far, I load the menu, and my thought is using the image list control, I grab the picture handle, compress it and load it into the menu, but it is not working? Does anyone have ideas or suggestions? ... 18 Jul 2008 17:33