Create Captionless MDI Forms
August 22, 2001
Sometimes you might want an MDI form without any captions or buttons, such as in a game or acting as a background parent object. You can create a captionless MDI
Sometimes you might want an MDI form without any captions or buttons, such as in a game or acting as a background parent object. You can create a captionless MDI
When you need to determine the last occurrence of a character within a larger string, you typically use a Mid$ or Instr in a loop. VB6
Creating a new project in VB6 (and earlier versions) has always been a pain when you have a large library of modules to add in. You can do it a
‘ Converts a numeric value in seconds to a time value’ Example:’ MsgBox SecondsToTime(11120) –> 3.5.20 AMFunction SecondsToTime(ByVal Seconds As Long) As Date SecondsToTime = CDate(Seconds / 86400) End Function
‘ Converts a time value to a numeric value in minutes’ Example:’ MsgBox TimeToMinutes(TimeSerial(3, 5, 0)) –> 185Function TimeToMinutes(ByVal newTime As Date) As Long TimeToMinutes = Hour(newTime) * 60 +
Private Declare Function GetSystemPowerStatus Lib “kernel32” _ (lpSystemPowerStatus As SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS) As LongPrivate Type SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS ACLineStatus As Byte BatteryFlag As Byte BatteryLifePercent As Byte Reserved1 As Byte BatteryLifeTime As Long BatteryFullLifeTime
Enum DateTimeFormat dtGeneralDate dtLongDate dtMediumDate dtShortDate dtLongTime dtMediumTime dtShortTime dtCustomEnd Enum’ Enhanced VB FormatDateTime functionFunction FormatDateTimeEx(newDate, Optional ByVal dtFormat As DateTimeFormat = _ dtGeneralDate, Optional FirstDayOfWeek As VbDayOfWeek = vbSunday,
‘ Converts a numeric value in seconds to a string’ Example:’ MsgBox SecondsToString(3920) –> 1h.5m.20sFunction SecondsToString(ByVal Seconds As Long) As String SecondsToString = (Seconds 3600) & “h.” & ((Seconds 60)