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Creating a Rich Text Field

Question: How do I go about creating a RICH TEXT FIELD in VB ? Answer: This problem has been fixed in VB4…they included a rich textbox control. However, I don’t

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Declaring DLL Functions

Question: A colleague wants to create a DLL using Borland C++ to callfrom Visual Basic 3.0 but she keeps getting an error message”Sub or Function Not Defined”.Do you know of

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Creating a Window With No Title Bar

Question: How do you control whether the window title bar is visible or not visible on each form when the application is running? Answer: If you set the caption to

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Detecting Microsoft Video for Windows

Question: I need to inquire if Video for Windows has been installed beforeattempting to play an AVI file. How can I do this? Answer: All versions of Windows keep track

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Using Seek Method

Question: I am currently migrating my VB/Access application to Microsoft SQL Server. However, the “SEEK” function in my old program does not work any more and I can not find

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Embedding Registration Information

Question: Is it possible to edit a VB3 executable at runtime, i.e. inserting Registered user name and serial number information into the executable so that it can come up when

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Editing Forms Directly

Question: I want to present screens of text in an application. I plan to use label controls and would like to cut and paste the text from my word processor

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Panel Controls Not Painting Correctly

Question: I have a 3D Panel on a form that fills in incrementally when certain operations are run. I expect that the panel should be visible when the form appears

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Using Rnd Function

Question: Is there any way I can have a % chance in random events. (say you click on a button and you have a 30% chance of it doing one