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Large Forms

Question: Is there any way I can create scrollable forms in VB 5.0? Answer: There isn’t a simple way that I know of. If you must have scrollable screens consider

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Creating Submenus During Run Time

Question: I’m trying to create a drop-down sub menu in a VB form. I’ve tried almost every applicable API32 call and have not been able to do it. Answer: If

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indication about non existence of a file

Question: Using ifstream, I want to open a file that already exists, and launch an error message if it does not exist. How can I get indication that the file

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Creating Threads

Question: How do I create threads in PowerBuilder? Answer: You can create separate threads in PowerBuilder by using the Shared Object features of PowerBuilder. Although this feature was initially created

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Copying/Renaming Files

Question: How do I use a memory variable as a filename when copying and renaming a file? Answer: For sake of example, let’s say that you have a character variable

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Length of a PowerBuilder Structure

Question: How can I determine a length of a PB structure? Answer: There is no way in PowerBuilder to do this. If you require the size of the structure for

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How to prepare for Visual Basic 6 Certification ?

Question: I am planning to give my Microsoft Certification Exam for VB 6.0 (Developing Distributed Application Development using Visual Basic 6.0 (70-175)). I have worked on Visual Basic for 6

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Pictures in Global Address List

Question: Is there any way that pictures of users can be downloaded into the system so that when you pull up their name and select “Properties” you can get a