July 24, 1998

Everyone loves a good sound bite. You can use the PlaySound() function in the Windows Multimedia DLL (WINMM.DLL) to play a wave (WAV) file that is stored as a resource.

You can easily duplicate the tooltips that appear when you float the mouse over a button in Microsoft’s products. This code displays the tooltip in the lower right-hand corner of

This code produces a “random” sequence of integers between specified Lower and Upper values without duplication. On the first call to the Shuffle routine with new values for Upper and

When writing a game for Windows 95, set the display resolution to 640-by-480, set the color palette to True Color when it runs, and restore it to its initial mode

VB provides only single-line comment functions: “REM” and “‘”. If you’re looking for another way to comment out a block of code, use conditional compilation in VB4 instead. Define “COMMENT

When doing animation, such as scrolling a label or using picture boxes, I first used the method described by Eric Bernatchez (“Smoother Control Animation,” “101 Tech Tips for VB Developers,”

You can use subscripts and superscripts in a RichTextBox control. To prevent the control from truncating text that is raised or lowered too far, reduce the characters’ size accordingly: Private

Use this code to get data out to different formats without requiring a complete copy of the DBMS on the user machine. Create a new project with a command button,

When the focus of a graphical user interface shifts to an empty TextField, you type the desired input and step to the next one. But if the TextField is not