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Hi All, Just installed VB6 on Windows XP and installed SP5 I can launch VB but every time I try and Run, Create EXE, or double click on a form object. VB Dies with an application error, the faulting module is oleaut32.dll Has anyone seen this error before / knows how to fix it? Thanks

For the most part I understand the VB "Language". I also understand C, C++, JAVA, JavaScript, etc, etc. What always holds me back is that I don't know what to do with them. I mean, I have good ideas for things to make, but I can't seem to organize my work and decide which part should do what and whether this should be in a loop inside the...

What are the most popular, and well supported, libraries of drivers for bar code scanners that include a Visual Basic and C/C++ API? My requirements are: - Must allow an application to be written to a single interface, but support many different manufacturers' barcode scanning devices. I do not want to be tied to one manufacturers'...

I have a picture box set to pixels 640x480 on a form. Autoresize is false The picture inside is 640x480px. If a user has their Display DPI settings set to 96dpi, the form and picture box looks fine. But if a user has their DPI set to 120dpi, the form grew very large, and the background picture is the only thing not streched out, leaving...

Hi I have a textbox which displays a formatted numeric. eg: 100,000 When I retreive this value for calculations, it is valued at 100 eg: calc = val(txtbox) * 2 calc will equal 200, not 200,000. Why is this, how do I fix it ??

Hi Everyone. I have a menu. We'll call it File. It has a number of options under it, such as open, close, exit, etc. One of my options is disabled and grayed out. That's good. The thing is, when I click on the File menu and drag my mouse down the list of options, it highlights all of them, even the disabled option. Is there a way to...

I do some error checking on my textbox. The problem is that if I enter a valid number, then backspace until the box is empty, my msgbox pops up saying "Data Error". Is there a way to avoid this? Also, if I enter invalid data and try to backspace through it, my "Data Error" msgbox pops up. This is rather annoying. Does anyone have a...

Hi: My name is Jean Honorio, Magister in Business Administration candidate of the Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru. As a part of my research thesis to get my grade of magister, I am studying the consumer behavior of the software component market. I would like to invite you to participate in a telephone interview about the things you...

I have my program dynamically register custom ActiveX components when it starts. On the most part, this works great for all my customers, except my own internal ones. Our Win2k computers are locked down so only someone with Admin privledges can install programs. So now, instead of remotely loading new components (which is what they asked...

Let me start off by saying I have VB working model which means no help. I have searched MSDN. It seems that I get "Read the help" instead of answers which is totally useless to me. With that said can someone please help me understand why this does not work? Dim x As String Private Sub cmdlogin_Click() Do Until x = "Corey" If txtlogin...

I am trying to create a desktop icon using VB6. is this possible? -p

Hi! I was using a standard windows timer, but it gave an error over 9% on a win 98 machine with no other programs running! Bacause of this, I decided to implement windows MultiMedia timer, and used code examples from msdn and this group. Everything works fine when I run it from VB, but if I complie and run, I get an error (and program...

Hi, I wanted to do the following: 1. Save a file as "Tensegrity.tmp" in my C:\Temp directory (and if one exists to replace it without any interaction, asking me about it etc.) 2. Once this is done, my application to automatically be minimized. i.e. in one command, or by the press of one button, my application to save the file as...

As a pre-newbie to visual basic, I haven't programmed for years and I am having the greatest of difficulties coping with it. If any kind soul can help me out with advice then I'd be most grateful. I am at the stage where I can design a form where I can insert text boxes. You type in a word in textbox1, press OK and it appears in textbox2....

This is probably simple but it has stumped me. I want to create objects at runtime for example: A program that would allow you to draw lines on a form. For each new line I would like to create a new line object in an array the same way you would a simple variable. if it was just a variable I could dim a(0) as single ..

I am working on an Application which I have based on several frames. There is one central frame, and, as required, the other frames 'slide' out from behind it. The problem is that this requires a large form to keep room for all of the various slides. I want to have the form transparent, and have mouse events pass-through to whatever is...

I needed to parse a csv file for my project. Could not find any so I put together this code. It works for general cases. Use it and let me know. Just Cut and paste the 2 functions in a new Form and the csv text in test.csv in the same directory. Watch for the line breaks! '------ Parse CSV + Demo ---------------------- ' (c) Shahid Mahmood...

MY vb6 application needs a textbox on a users taskBar to show that it is running. How is this handled in vb6? Any ideas? Thanks, Phil

Dear Colleagues, My task: I read AVI file and get handle to its frames using the Ray Mercer's outstanding tutorial regarding video in VB. Now, I try to write text on each such frame and then save them to an AVI file. Since each frame retrieved from AVI file, as I understand it, is a bitmap, then my task is reduced to writing text on bitmaps...

As I am just beginning VB6 and have had much help from those of you here in the news groups (and I do appreciate it greatly) I would prefer to do a little more research on my own before asking. Many times I have been suggested to read the MSDN web site and believe it or not I have spent some hours going through this with little success. I am...

how can i detect an incoming caller's telephone keystroke using modem, using mscomm or other? how can i detect an outgoing call using mscomm? how can i get a caller id using mscomm?

Hi all I have troubles with visual basic6sp5 on winxp sp1 the error messages i get when i try to do somting eg. alter a menu itens name or add a reference, or try to compile looks like this AppName: vb6.exe AppVer: 6.0.89.88 ModName: vba6.dll ModVer: 6.0.0.8964 Offset: 0001fc35 and i the eventlog i get the following

Hey all. I have a whiteboard type program. I have 2 picturebox's (needed for their mousemove/mousedown events) Picture1.Picture = MyPicture ' Here is my hidden picture used to replace (on erase) Picture1 Picture2.Picture = MyPicture

I have created this little routine to export the values of some variables. However there are two things I need to fix: 1. Instead of being on a line, I want them arranged one under another. 2. Those values come in brackets like " ". If I use the CLng() or CDbl() they transform to zeros. Is there a way I can keep the numeric values and get...

Hi...Just a quick question about popup menus. I have a menu popup using the code below: Private Sub fraAccBal_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single) If Button = 2 Then PopupMenu mnuHi End If End Sub