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Question: How do you make a percent bar with the Win 95look and feel? I know that you can make a percentbar using a picture box, but I am trying
Question: I have a place in my Active Server Page script (VBScript) where I’d like to wait for 1 second before performing an action. What can one do to cause
Question: How do you create and use a multidimensional array of type int. Answer: C programmers are used to dealing with multidimensional arrays as chunksof contiguous memory which can be
Question: We are developing a Java application which we want to distribute.We want our application main Frame/window to occupy the entire screen. But at runtime how do we adjust the
Question: Hi, I am looking for a way of displaying a textareabox and then being able to tell what text the userhas highlighted (with mouse) and then replacing thetext? Can
Question: I am writing an application that uses the URLConnection class to open a connection to a web site. However one of the sites I wish to access has web
Question: How do I control blockingin Java. For example, in telnet Iwould like to take an actionif the user presses a certainkey. This requiresnon-blocking read; I think? Answer: It is
Question: I have a 16-bit win3.1 version of of a project. We recentlyreceived user requested thesoftware as win95 users.How can I distribte theprogram w/o having to developa program in 32-bit.
Question: I am trying to populate a comboxbox from a table (or query). If I use dataware is only receive the first record, I however want all records in the
Question: What are the difference between FileLen() & Len()? When checking the file size making sure it is not exceeding 32KB in the text box, should I use FileLen() or
Question: How do I import a JPEG image into an application during run-time? Answer: The Image and Picture Box controls in VB5 can display JPEG images. Use the LoadPicture function
Question: I have an MDI application; when I Unload one form I want to check to see if another form is open and if it is run some code that
Question: We need to include the capability to abort queries in our Delphi apps that are running under BDE connecting to remote Oracle databases. Occasionally, some queries take a long
Question: Hi,Each time l try to create a table using code-not the database explorer, i get an error message:access violation at address 0042f540 read of address 7466654c.Whats the problem, how
Question: How, in a database application, to use a table for selection byusers to call a certain form. For example, I could have a field with thename of the table
Question: Is Visual Basic Year 2000 compliant? Answer: All versions of Visual Basic support four digit dates. However, it is up to the programmer to support four digit dates. This
Question: I want to get the serial number from my hard drive and my floppy disk drive. How can I do this? Answer: The GetVolumeInformation API call is used to
Question: When I install my application on another machine other than my own, my application cannot find the report (.RPT) file I want to use. What could be the problem?
Question: How can I show the tables in an Interbase database in listview or filelist? (like the database explorer) Answer: The only way to do that is as follows:1) Create
Question: I need to read and analyze the *.bmp file. How I can do it without PictureBox? Answer: In order to open the file, you need to use the Open
Question: HI! I hope you can help me. I’m opening a window with the window.open() method, and for the life of me, I can’t get it to be the size
Question: I hear a “beep” when I press the ENTER key in a text box. How can I disable it? Answer: This is a common problem with the TextBox control.
Question: In VB4, how do I create a wrapper class for a textbox?I want to be able to add properties to a textbox. Answer: There are many approaches you can
Question: How do I make my program respond to “mousedown” outside my form? For instance: How would I get my program to tell me the pixel coordinants of my cursor
Question: I need change 256 color to 16 bit color in w95… and i dont know it… Thx! Answer: Right-Click on you Desktop and select “Properties”. From the Settings tab,
Question: I am considering using WebTV as a platform to deliver our on-line training courses. Is ActiveX compatible? Answer: WebTV is currently not ActiveX compatible. The latest releases of WebTV
Question: I am using Excel 97 to create macros. I would like to have my macro “save as” and automaticaly create a filename partially from the current date.for example today
Question: I created a setup program with the Setup Wizard. I try to install my program on another computer, and the message following appears: C:windowssystemmsvcrt40.dllAn access violation occurred while copying
Question: Can I make web pages with VB5? Answer: That is a vague question, but the short answer is yes. Visual Basic can, as a simple solution, create text output
Question: I am writing a program that uses the Internet. So far, it works but I need to make sure that the connection is working. How can I make my