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Thanks in advance... I have an image control into which I load a .tif image, which loads fine... And when I select a rectangle to zoom down to , and click on a cmdButton ("ZOOM IN"), I zoom to selected rectangle as I expected, BUT ONLY when I run from within the .vbp. The cmdButton code is a 1 liner, namely: Me.imgMain.ZoomToSelection... If...

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Hi All, I have been struggling with this for weeks now and I just can't get my head around it. I am trying to convert this procedure to VB.NET. In particular I am having problems with the CopyMemory and ZeroMemory calls. I have been messing around with the Marshal class but just can't seem to get it to work. Can anybody help me with this...

Hi Im having trouble setting the bold and 'not' bold properties in a rich text control. All the text in the control is entered through code and the bold property is different for different sections. I am using the selstart and sellength to set the selection then either selbold=true or false to set the bold. I have debug.printed the...

Does anyone have any code for doing combinations in VB.net or visual basic ? I'd like to be able to get an array of combinations (not permutations) of words from a base group of words while specifying the number of unique words to be used in the result set. For instance if I have the set {cat dog fish snake} I'd like to be able to get...

I'm trying to print the contents of a Flexgrid using printer.print. Everything works fine unless the number of entries in the grid cause it to not fit on a single 8.5x11 page anymore. The printer only prints to the end of the page and does not continue to the next page. Is there any way to do this?? Thanks! The simple code I have is as...

i'm making an app that runs another program from an OLE container. now i know it is run by ole.action = 7 , but i wonder is it possible to pass arguments to that program when i run it that way?is there another way to run it?

I have been working for the past week on what seems to be a bug with the VB TreeView control. I have changed the background of the treeview to a light beige, this works fine except for the white box that remains at the last node of each level of the Tree. I am using a treeView with an ImageList "+" "-".\ I used the following suggestions...

I received one additional piece of information which may help (doesn't help me, but maybe it will help someone help me): someone suggested that the application, or a part of it, begins running as a service of the operating system. If this sounds plausible, where does the problem likely originate? Is it some part of the program code, or some...

Hi, I am trying to find a VB way that would create a folder on all existing drives - the folder name would be the same on each drive. ie c:\backup, d:\backup, etc. But the folders would only be created if they don't already exist, and if the drive happens to be one a folder cannot be created on (ie a cdrom drive) it would just be skipped...

I am fairly new to using VBA and have 2 questions. 1. I need to separate the execution of the VBA from the spreadsheet. The application will probably get updated often, and the user will not be using a new template, simply opening the saved workbook. Is there a method I can use in workbook_activate, or some other event, to "load" the...

Hello, Is there a way to read files bigger than 2.147 Gb using Visual Basic 5. The Get statement accept only a "long" variable as Record Number; is there any Windows API enabling the possibility to reab 4 Gb file under W98 (or more under Windows XP) ?? I use already a windows api to get the file size over 2.xxx Gb (FindFirstFileA). Thanks...

Hi All, I posted this in basic.visual.database the other day and got no response. Hopiing someone here can help! Thanks! I found an article entitled "Add a Touch of Web to Your Windows Applications" on DevX.com and I'm trying to hone my skills. I've tried all 3 tutorials and have had success on all but the one that teaches databound HTML...

Is there a way to have the "work" folder open up and displayed after the move is made in this code which uses the name statement to move and rename folders from backup folders to a work folder? snip .... Dim strFolderName As String, strPath1 As String, strPath2 As String Dim intLoop As Integer On Error Resume Next strFolderName =...

Hi All, context: I am using Access 97 tablkes with VB. I can see records in the MDB, using Adodc and datagrid. No problem. But when doing: rsprivate.AddNew rsprivate!For = rsusers!identification rsprivate!Receivedon = ladate

I recently had to reinstall visual basic 6.0. I also reinstalled the msdn files that came with vb6. When I need to search for an item in help, I type the keyword into the text box on the index tab. If I double click any of the possible results that are returned, a dialog box is displayed with the message Please Insert the cd-rom disc...

hello. I would appreciate any example code to help me achieve the following please. I want to be able to right click on any folder in windows explorer and select my program from the context menu once the app is running I want text1 to show the folder name from which it was opened

I am building an ActiveX control using Visual Basic 6. I have a "property" that uses a "property page." To set this up I opened the Tools\Procedure Attributes dialog, then selected my property and set the "use this page in property browser" to the name of my property page. So far so good, when I select the property in the property...

I have Oracle 8 Personal Edition on my WindowsME PC and want to access it from a VB6 program (on the same PC - no network connection). I can't seem to be able to create a DSN and therefore can't get at it using ODBC. Is there some kind of a native (or whatever) driver I can use to get at the database from VB with ADO objects?

Hi, I've already posted a question similar but will need some precisions and help. I have a rtf file displayed within a RTB control. Above it, I have a text box control with a scroller which helps me to increase/decrease numbers inside it by clicking. (There should be a shorter name for this control!!!) What I want is: Whenever I click...

Dear Friends, Could you possibly outline the main differences between VB6 and VB.NET and what your preference would be for development of client/server applications accessing SQL/Server databases? Many thanks Jeff

Hello, I am trying to write a program that will have an option to either format a disk in the A drive, or delete all the contents on it. I've tried sing the shell command, and other variations of it I found on the internet, but for some reason these won't work. If someone could please help me that would be great.

Bonjour, Est-il possible d'exécuter seulement un msgbox dans l'événement clik d'une ToolBar mais sans que le bouton en question (de la ToolBar) ne s'enfonce mais reste normal sans enfoncement ? Car dans mon programme, lorsque je clique sur le point d'interrogation mon curseur change en point d'interrogation. Et si je clique sur la ToolBar...

WinXP Home VB6 I am wondering if this setting can be changed during runtime, I would like to be able to after running to make my mediaplayer program not show in taskbar or not have it make it show orange in the taskbar bringing the taskbar up and ontop of my currently running stuff. Any thoughts, and in case it helps I have limited VB...

Hi All I have a few questions and I am hoping some of you gurus maybe able to help. As I understand, there are 3 basic types (and some subtypes) of joins: inner join, outer join and cross join. What is the difference between the cross join and fuller outer join and why would you ever use self join? Apart from prepared and direct execution, is...