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I am trying to print out a report in a VB6 program but can't get the figures in a column lined up. In QB it was simple. Format all the numbers with "###,###.##" or equivalent and print at a tab. All the decimal points lined up. But it doesn't work in VB. Thought I might need a fixed pitch font but when I do Printer.FontName = "Courier". ...

I have a problem with a small program. In this program I have two forms (FrmMain and FrmFind). On my computer with Windows in French there is no problem but with other windows versions (Win XP Pro Spanish) the main form doesn't receive the datas from FrmFind. I've tried several systems: ----------------

i am looking for a way to capture some data from a web DB that is set up to only allow a user to view one page of a query at a time or to print the entire query. i don't want to print and retype for obvious reasons. so i would like to "capture" the text of report that goes to the printer and put it into a DB in my app. so does anyone know...

If Index = 0 Then Dim ac As Access.Application Set ac = CreateObject("Access.Application") ac.Visible = True ' se non lo metto, non fa l'anteprima ac.DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdAppMaximize ' espande Access ac.OpenCurrentDatabase (nome_db), False ac.DoCmd.OpenReport "scheda_report", acViewPreview, , "=" & Chr(34) & id & Chr(34) ac.DoCmd.Maximize...

Hi, The example code seems to write the characters as unicode. How do i get it to write plain ascii? Stephen Dim fs as new filestream("c:\test.txt", filemode.create, fileaccess.write) Dim s as new streamwriter(fs)

Hello, I want to fill a textfield placed in a sstab. Therfore I press a button. I have a Class thet opens a form where the entry is selected. How can I fill a field in the class with the selection of the form? Thanks, Mark

Hello, I want to write an App that works with new mails incoming in Outlook. Therfore Outlook must run all the time for monitoring the incoming mail folder. Is there a way I can watch the folder without Outlook running? Or can I use MAPI to check directly the mailbox on an Exchange Server. If there is a new mail, how can I receive the...

I have an VB App that reads an Excel Sspreadsheet and it seems to having problems determining the data type of a column. The column in question has alpha numeric content eg S001, B123 or 1234. I am aware that when reading Excel Spreadsheets it will determine the datatype of a column, by looking at the content of the first few rows. If it...

I use a commondialog control to open a file.It was working perfectly that is showing it in the center of the screen. I then added a toolbar and a imagelist. Now it shows it bottom left of screen.Is there a way of forcing it to show in the center of the screen. Thanks Basil

Hi all I have finally got this working using vb6 and mscomm but i now have a new problem. USBMOD2 suposed to be a parallel port but the 8 data i/o pins i cant keep live to emulate thow a parallel port would behave. So end result i cant use it to switch relays in the same way Any ideas please.

Some guidance por favor I started this program with the Data Form Wizard (never again). I'm pretty deep into it now, this piece of code keeps overwriting the first record in the DB: Private Sub cmdAdd_Click() On Error GoTo AddErr DatPrimaryRS.Recordset.MoveLast DatPrimaryRS.Recordset.AddNew DatPrimaryRS.Recordset.Fields("Caller").Value =...

Can anyone recommend a good VB5 cross-reference program that makes reports? I have seen VB Project Eye, but it does not make reports. Thank you. --- Allen

Any suggestions for the encryption of a commercial VB app would be greatly appreciated. I am currently using a third party software called Softwrap, and I am sorely disappointed with them. Has anyone used Digital River? Any recommendations? Thanks, Rocky www.dzynsource.com

Any suggestions for the encryption of a commercial VB app would be greatly appreciated. I am currently using a third party software called Softwrap, and I am sorely disappointed with them. Has anyone used Digital River? Any recommendations? Thanks, Rocky www.dzynsource.com

I have a word doument on Tomcat. I need to print the file passing the url of the filename and get the users default printer or selected pinter so that it can print i want to call it like this printFile http://localhost/myapp/docs/mydoc.doc defaultprinter can someone give me a function that can do this?

Hello all. This is the n th post of my problem. Sorry from the ones who observe all ngs. I have an ADO connection with an Access 2000 .mdb file (One Index column and 20 columns conatining Text data) I need to present a find method similar to Find command of Access (scroll through each record of the recordset and highlight the findings)....

Hi All, Suppose I have a dynamic string array Dim sa(,) as string I want to populate the first two columns of a datagrid control with the two columns of sa. I want the third column of the datagrid control to be check boxes, indicating whether the value should be considered as a string or a double. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I have a circle that displays information in 1-degree increments - there are 90 such increments that comprise the circle. I need a pointer within the circle that rotates. The pointer must include areas to the left and right of the center line so that a person is better able to see when something is within 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 marks (degrees) of...

Hi: I have a procedure written in Visual Basic 4.0 that causes the window to reduce in size and width until it is totally gone. It sort of "melts" to the lower right and then is gone. The code is: Sub ExitByClick Dim I As Integer Dim I As Long

SQL Server 'bigint' values are 8-bytes, or 64-bits. While VB.NET has a specific SQL variable types to mirror each SQL Server data type, I'm working in VB6. So what is the best way to manipulate, or at least retrieve and store 64-bit values in SQL Server? Considerations are: 1: Variant 2: Type value using a pair of 32-bit long integers....

I have a combobox on an activex ctl file, (TobulControl.ctl). I have a button on the ctl file too, and when the button is pressed, a dialog box opens. Within the code of this dialog box, I refer to this combobox with: If TobulControl.Combo1.ListIndex <> 8 Then whereupon at this line I get a "Runtime Error 424 : Object Required" How can...

Hi All, I created a user control and put it on a form with a data repeater and ado control. My understanding is that this configuration requires a connection string. However, my database is in memory in a string array (e.g. redim sa(x,y) as string). How would I write a connection string for an array in memory? Thanks, Lance

Hello -- A textbox, txtSubsRate, on a form has its DataFormat property set to Percentage. The result is that a user entering a decimal value of ".nn" sees "nn%" in the text box. In an expression in code, txtSubsRate.Text is read as "nn%". My workaround is to use the Replace function to replace "%" with "" and divide by 100. Is that...

Hello -- Our user wants a column in the DataGrid formatted as "%", so that he sees "nn.n%" instead of ".nnn". I have seen mention of StdDataFormat, as in Dim fmtPct1 As New StdDataFormat but I don't know to create the text for fmtPct1, nor do I know how to use it

Hello: I just upgraded to VB 6.0 (late bloomer)..anyway, I am using the datagrid control and when the user does not fill in a specific cell, I don't want the changes saved. So, I put a procedure in the "BeforeUpdate" event and allow the user to choose to fill in the cell or not save the newly inserted (or changed) information. However,...