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White vs. Grey Background in Panel Control

Question: I’m using the 3D Panel in my application. When I setits background coulor to light grey, it looks fine onmy workstation but it’s white in any other workstations.That’s true

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Incorrect Number of Event Arguments

Question: I am getting the error: INCORRECT NUMBER OF EVENT PROCEDURE ARGUMENTS. This has been occuring ever since I created a control array of command buttons. I have to complete

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Using JOIN Clauses

Question: I’m working with Visual Basic and Access 1.1. Currently my program uses two tables (tblrep and tblsales). The common field being tblrep.id = tblsales.id. The first form of the

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Right Justifying Text in a Command Button

Question: I’m using VB Professional edition and I would like to combine in a command button an icon, left justified, and the caption, right justified. The default setting sets the

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Making the List Drop Automatically

Question: How can I make the combo box drop its list easily? Answer: On form load, do combo.additem , until allitems are placed into the combo list.To cause the combo

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Flushing I/O Buffer

Question: Is there a way within VB to flush information sent to a file? Normally, information is buffered and not sentto the file until the buffer size is exceeded or

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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

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Incompatible Version Errors

Question: I know that there is a fix needed in order to use VB 3.0 and Microsoft Access 2.0. I have downloaded the file COMLYR.EXE and have run it. I