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Unload vs. Hide

Question: My application makes use of different forms.I call forms by ‘hide’ the current form and ‘show 1’ to showthe next one.When I want to return to the previous form

Saving Information

Question: How do you save information?Say a made a game, and i wanted high scores, how do I want to do that? Answer: You could do it a number of

Creating 2 Dimensional Array

Question: I am trying to design a telephone directory and am unable to set the 2 dimensional arrayas an unknown number. How do I do this? Answer: The best way

Declaring Form Objects

Question: If i declare a new form as an object variable,Dim NewForm as Formset NewForm=form2NewForm.ShowOnce I have a one of those forms, how do refer to that particularinstance of the

Removing Filename Reference

Question: I have a form containing a Picture Box control.This control currently contains a bitmap i.e. the pictureproperty contains a filename. How do I change the picture property back to

Oracle via ODBC

Question: I am using Visual Basic as my front-end tool to read an oracle 7 database residing on an oracle network. I have completed the connection stage. I am using

Access 2.0 Requirements

Question: I have heard a vicious rumour going round that any programs I write in VB 3.0 using Access 2.0 will only be able to run on computers that have

Formatting a Disk

Question: How do I issue a disk format command from myVB code? Do I simply shell to DOS? Answer: That’s what I would recommend. Format is a .COM file, so

Adding Leading Zeroes

Question: A control record value for next_order_num will contain the value “00009998” when you first get the control record file. Each time you write the next_order_num field back into the

Type Declarations

Question: I define a user-defined type as follow..Type Complex Re As Double Im As DoubleEnd TypeI created a function like this…Function CompAdd( a As Complex, b As Complex ) As

Dynamically Generating Variable Names

Question: I have a number of objects, say shapes, which I have named s1, s2 , s3, s4 , s5.I would like to refer to the shapes fillcolor property witha

One Large Program vs. Several Small Programs

Question: We have 4 good size programs, and we are considering consolidated theminto 1 single program. Combined, these 4 programs would have about 60 forms and a total of 500

Buffer Return Problems

Question: I am feeling very sick and was wondering if you could help me. I am trying to access the Lan Manager 2.1 API and am having difficulty get return

Saving Forms as Text vs. Binary

Question: This may seem a stupid question, but I cannot figure or find it out anywhere… I have been having trouble with the setup wizard saying that my forms have

Using the WITH Operator

Question: This code is in pascal how can i implement it in VB ? with treasuremap do move Answer: VB 3 does not support the With operator. (version 4 does,

Searching for Apostrophes

Question: When using VB4 and the Jet Engine with Access 2.0, I do I execute an SQL query that searches for a string that contains the apostrophe ? Answer: If

Opening and Reading a File

Question: Can you please send me the code to open a file using the common dialog box – not just the code to open the dialog box but to actually

Moving Controls on Screen

Question: I was wondering how you can move pictures and controls from one end of a screen (that part I know) and then have it go back or down? Answer:

Displaying Help

Question: How do you use the Common Dialog Box help. When I set all of the parameters and tried it, it didn’t display my helpfile. Answer: Did you set the

Selecting File from File List Box

Question: I put a drive box, a directory list box, and a file list box on the form, with the intention of being able to select an *.ico file from

Entering Large Amounts of Text

Question: I have a problem with writing text in Visual Basic. I would like to enter several hundred pages of text into my program, Any ideas of how to do

Opening MAK Files with VB 4.0

Question: In working with VB4 I find that if I double click on a project file (.mak or .vbj) the system always starts upVB4 in 16bit mode. I am wondering

Updating Bound Controls

Question: In my program from a combo list one can select an item (that happens to be a table in an MDB file)so that the DATA1.recordsource matches the item selected

Dynamic Runtime Creation

Question: Is it possible to add elements to a control array of an object (ex. SSPanel) in a module that is notthe form’s module. My goal is to be able

Closing DOS Window When Completed

Question: I have a real problem that in windows 95 when a dos shell is finished it does not close. I use these dos shells when interfacing to old equipment

Creating Win95 Explorer-like Dialogs

Question: Are there common dialogs in Win95 like file open/save? I wish to put in my apps the ability to use long filenames which Win95 supports. Answer: Here is the

Putting Controls on a TabStrip

Question: The number of Tabs are determined at run time. Control Array of text boxes are established on Tab 0 at design time. Each tab is to contain the same

Modifying Startup Project

Question: Is there a way to make VB skip that annoying new project it displays on startup. I work on existing projects 80%+ of the time. It would be even

Searching on Numerical Fields

Question: When using the FindFirst method I seem to be able to locate only records which are defined as strings using a variable in the search pattern. When I am

Disappearing Controls

Question: At apparently random times, some controls disappear frommy form. Not all of the controls disappear. Minimizingand then restoring the form, as well as clicking onthe ‘invisible’ controls, brings them