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Creating Long Delays

Question: I’ve been trying to create a simulator – it requires as close to real-time operation as possible. I have a couple of questions about timers.How do I activate a

Putting More Controls on a Form

Question: If you are designing a program, but there is not enough room on a form even when it is maximized, what can you do? Answer: If you use a

FRX Files

Question: Could you (easily) please tell me what .FRX files are in VB?I’d be forever grateful. Answer: FRX Files are displayed in Windows 95 as Visual Basic Form Stash Files.

Getting Entries from INI Files

Question: I want to read the MSMAIL.INI file to get information for my program when it starts, and write information there when the program is terminated. I am looking at

Creating a Login Window

Question: I have been attempting to write some code that acceptsinfo from text boxes labeled “Login” and “Password.”I then need to check the password up to x amount of timesbefore

Searching Date Fields

Question: In procedure, I used statement like this:ds.FindFirst “fulldate = ’95-10-31′” ‘ds is DynaSet variablebut always it fails, and ds.NoMatch Value is True(-1).What’s wrong with this? Please help me. Answer:

Calling Stored Procedures

Question: Can one call a stored procedure or function in oracle 7through odbc from visual basic? This might be a questionfor an oracle user group, so if you know where

Changing Database Structure

Question: I’m using VB 3.0 to work with databases in the Jet 2.0 format. I expect it will be necessary to add new fields to the database sometime in the

Filling a Structure Automatically

Question: After a structure is defined witha “TYPE” declaration, do you know of a way to directly fillthe structure with data, rather than individually assigingthe elements, or reading from a