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Question: How do I pass a form as an argument to a function or procedure? I have tried passing the the form name directly and the form name as a
Question: How do I create the VB equivalent of the command belowDIR C: /S /B >MYFILE.LSTI need this routine for a program that keeps track of installedand removed files. Answer:
Question: I just wrote my first VB4 program, the “Hello World” program out of the SAMS book, “Learn VB4 in 21 Days”. My question is this: I compiled my program
Question: Id like to no how you address text to the DbGrid1 custom control. For example the Grid control addressesby How would I do this with the DbGrid1 custom control
Question: What steps do I take to open/ retrieve a particular help topic (usingContext string/ID) of a Help File? Answer: This code, using the CommonDialog control, could be put behind
Question: I want to add a new item to the control box menu(or system menu). I add a new item using API’s likeAppendMenu and InsertMenu and both work fine, but
Question: I can’t seem to figure out how to place a “&” sign in a text field or in a label’s caption. Answer: Try putting two ampersands next to each
Question: I have two fields on the screen that I use to enter a date range. I want to check the entry on the lost focus with IsDate, and in
Question: I would like to make a row (in a frame) of command buttons that could light up when depressed. And also have some small round buttons (like option buttons)
Question: Each time I run a certain application from VB environment, resources go lower and lower. When I exit VB, all the memory is released.I do not have that problem
Question: I am a teacher (this explains my lack of expertise at understanding many VB technicalitiesin manuals etc.) experimenting with creating bits and pieces of software for children with learning
Question: How can I run the following “SHELL” command in VB? It works fine in PowerBasic, but VB 3.0 doesn’t like it.SHELL “DIR *.BKP > FILES.LST”Any ideas? Answer: Try this:Shell
Question: When starting a VB program and I load the starting form, I wantto get the directory from the active program. How do I get thedirectory name? Answer: The Path
Question: I need execute some commands to rename/copy files. What is the best method of performing this type of function.I do not want to fire off a batch file, but
Question: What all do I need to know to create a screen saver in Visual Basic? Answer: Windows screensavers are easy and fun to write in Visual Basic, but there
Question: When I try to unload some forms with database controls on them while in the Form_Load event, VB tries to show the form again and issues the statement ‘Object
Question: I need a way to make a grid/table that would support headers and cell data spanning multiple rows as wellas multiple columns. Any ideas? Answer: VideoSoft has a product
Question: How do you limit the size of a help file definition window? When I program a pop-up window for a definition, its as big as the main Help window
Question: How can get the Text contained in a specified Cell in DBGrid? Answer: If you set the Row and Col properties first, you can then look at the “Text”
Question: I made a copy of a project for a new application. The problem is that each time a message box is displayed it has the old project name as
Question: I am looking for a way to determine the numberof bytes on a hard drive. Preferable I’d liketo know the total bytes on a drive and the bytes used
Question: It is easy to use control arrays to load controls inside a container. Now the problem is I do not know how many containers e.g., groups of option buttions,
Question: How do I center a form on the monitor regardless of monitor resolution? Answer: The Screen object contains the properties of the current display. In the Form_Load event, you
Question: My VB program produces as output, paper reports such as Income Statements and Balance Sheets. How do we get the numbers to print as they should, that is, dollars
Question: We have a big complete hospital system written in ClipperWe had looked at VO, but that does not seem to be the way to goWe will now concentrate on
Question: Can you suggest ways to delay sending keystrokes to the external application? I’ve tried inserting ‘For-Next’ loops of different durations but without success. Answer: Try a timer control. That
Question: VB reports the wrong number of records from an Access database with the RecordCount property. The same query to dBase files reports the correct number of records. What is
Question: I use version 4.0 and the school I go to uses version 3.0. I use windows 95 and they use windows 3.1. I know you can convert a 3.0
Question: I am new to Visual Basic and wanted to know how to write those nifty little help files. Answer: Help files are fairly easy to create. All you need
Question: Could you tell me how to clear a MaskEdit Field? Answer: To clear a masked edit field’s text, you first have to set the mask to “”, then set
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