Tip Bank

If you write programs that access information on a network server, you never want to hard-code drive letters. Not all software vendors take advantage of the Uniform Naming Convention (UNC)

I would like to add a few things to the “Building a Better Mouse Trap” tip [VBPJ November 1996, page 56]. This approach also works for any message, including button-up

If you have an application that must run “unattended” and you want it to alert you if something goes wrong, your application can send you a message through WinPopUp. WinPopUp

Question: I have an .exe of PB app “sales.” While I type c:sales.exe, I will also pass a parameter such as c:sales.exe auto. Now I want to access this parameter

Question: How do I control the font size in a rich text edit? I am pulling text from a variable and applying it to a rich text edit by: rte_1.SelectTextAll()rte_1.ReplaceText

Question: How can I use VB5 components from within PB6? Can VB5 deliver a DLL that we can communicate with, or are there better methods? Answer: The best method of

Question: Is there a way to wrap text that is written to the TextArea? Answer: The java.awt.TextArea class does not have built-in support for wrapping text, but you can implement

Question: I have an initially disabled TextField on a frame.When the user clicks a specific button the TextField is enabled. How do I set the input focus to the TextField

Question: How can I copy the selected text from a TextArea to the system clipboard or paste from the system clipboard to a TextArea? Answer: Java 1.1 introduced the java.awt.datatransfer