There is a list of our new functions in Visual Basic 4.0 for workingwith an application’s Windows registry entries (or .INI file on16-bit Windows platforms): GetSetting(appname, section, key[, default]) GetAllSettings(appname,
The problem? You want to print a single sub but VB always prints allthe subs that are in the current form. You could copy it to the clipboardand print it
With the release of VB4 and the new development environment for32-bit operating systems, I use three versions of Visual Basicin developing VB applications. Some of my clients won’t acceptapps built
LenLongestWord finds the length of the longest word in a stringwhere a word is defined to be bounded by spaces or the ends ofthe string. It also illustrates a case
Many times when I code similar syntax with slight modifications on each line, I like to make a template of thecore syntax, quickly paste a copy of it however many
Note that in writing in VB3.0, Visual Basic’s AppActivate statementfails to make a 32-bit application the active window under Windows NT.For example: Sub Form_Load () AppActivate “Notepad – (Untitled)”End Sub
When you get a cool sample of a VB component and you simply can’t recreate all of its characteristics inyour app, don’t go nuts. Most of the time, you can
After a call to a DLL, the return value often contains a null.One way to eliminate the null is to look for Chr$(0), as in theexample: Dim CheckForNull As IntegerCheckForNull
There is a simple way to get Monitor resolutions through a WinAPIcall. Declare this in a module: Declare Function GetsystemMetrics Lib “User” (ByVal _ nIndex As Integer) As Integer And