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Awesome! Thanks for the tip!

This has been a gnarly one to research, because nothing seemed to make sense to the search engines for me.

I will test and let you know.

I got that... application associations. But that still doesn't help me get the actual path and file name of the file selected.

Let me try this approach. When the user clicks on a DOCX file, it...

I need the file name from Windows Explorer...

I have a service that runs when a specific extension is selected.

It's along the same lines as selecting a Docx from WinExp and then Word opens...

I reinstalled it... I think I missed one of the dozen or controls we use...

But it works now...

Thanks!!!

I have reinstalled SP6 with no improvement.

I am really starting to worry that the problem is with the OS... some fix from MS has turned XP toxic.

I just reinstalled VB6 and it won't run any applications!

I open the program, press F5 or the > or Debug >> Run and the IDE just blips out. No error messages... it just exits.

I can't compile,...

More info.

I copied the file set from the source to the server. The CRC32 numbers have changed AGAIN and they STILL don't match.

This is the scoop:

I work in the bio-tech industries as a software engineer. We do lots of testing of products, and the results are saved on a server.

The instruments are mostly Agilent...

Ok... that makes some sense... but I have found a buggy that might just be the culpret. Now all I need to do is make sense of it. Off to create another topic...

Thanks!

I have a ton of VB code to do this in SQL server... I donno if it will help in Access, for some reason, I doubt it.

I use an encrypted access file.

The file gets renamed with a .key extention, then opened by the application as an mdb internally. The .key confuses the hell out of the system and will not fire...

Is there anyway to apply a Read Lock or an Exclusive Use condition to a file opened with FSO?

The way I am thinking is via opening it for write... but that could cause conflicts with what I am...

.NET is the future.

Another way to get a good version for free is to attend a MicroSoft event. Also, if you are a student, there are deals available there.

You will need a database, I would use...

no, that's not an array. it's a function. A function is a process that ultimately acts like a variable. In this case, the function is being passed the potential range of letters A..Z and a..z in...

Are you trying to stop duplicates or other jobs period?

If you are stopping dupes, this is the best bet:

If App.PrevInstance = True Then
Exit Sub
End If

you can, but not that way...

Using FTP in that manner isn't good.

First off, check out FSO - File System Object. It has easier methods of accessing data and retrieving it.

Since, I am sure,...

to start with, use ADO. Then set the data type as a date.

The rest will take care of itself. Otherwise, the system views the data as a string and confusion could abound.

gee... what kind of documents are you protecting? Source code?

If it is source code, there are some folks here who have written some tools that can help you... I am sure they will chime in.

VSS...

the only other suggestion would be to dynamically allocate all values to a table.

the easiest way is to use FSO on the file, get the size and compare.

What suggestion fixed it?

if it's not being found, you are getting a rs.eof condition = true. You aren't trapping for it.

Change the ifs:



If rs.eof then
Msgbox "thief"
exit sub

Code would be killer hard...

We spent about an hour this morning... and found the damned thing!

It is way to complex to get into at this time, but I will summarize later.

That's the message I am getting... I have a VB6 project that yes, has transactions in it, however, this form doesn't, yet it throws the error...

It's very random and inconsistant in its behaviour,...

I hear what you are saying, but the controls that were blowing up worked fine on other forms... hense, if I was having an issue with an unregistered OCX, for example, I would expect it to be global,...

I would find it very hard to believe that VSS couldn't handle binary files... that would boggle what's left of my brain.

Still no cause... the best guess? A combination of a huge exe and a MS...

I have not tried that... I will give that a shot when I have a few minutes to kill.

Well... a couple of weeks have past... and I am still no closer to figuring this out.

However, this is what we did. A new computer was imaged (created in May), and given to us. The first thing I...

it is becoming apparent that the updates they ship out are part of the master plan of making older software obsolete... most annoying.

This problem was present before the memory upgrade... if anything, I was hoping the memory upgrade would fix it.

Yesterday, a coworker and me did some analysis on this. We found that the FRX file...

I just installed - last week - a new 2 gig stick. It replaced the 1 gig that had been there.

So far, I have totally reinstalled VB6, SP6 and a long list of 3rd party controls. I did some reading,...

A lot of old stuff... 3D Magic Buttons, some old Sheldon (pre-Infragistics) controls, Component 1, Be Cube, DynamiCube... things of that nature.

There is a chance I have found something... reading...

techgnome - I would LOVE to... but it's being replaced with a .NET app.

But, as I said, that's a few weeks off, and these dinky little fixes come and go still... it really is convoluted... why...

I am in the process of reinstalling VB6 and the primary suite of controls we use.

I can't think of anything else...

oh, the OS returns a wacky memory read error, but not all the time.

There shouldn't be. The 2 machines in question are both identical model Dell's - Optiplex 745's, both running XP SP2. If anything, mine has more memory.

They were both built off the same image,...

FSO has a file exists method.

Public Function Get_INI_Item(Key As String, Element As String) As String

Dim sTemp As String
Dim FileName As String
Dim oChkFile As FileSystemObject...

It looks to me like she needs Programming 101...

Grace - have you considered a local college? Is there one available? If not, do some searching around here... but you will need some documentation.

This is getting to become an old problem for me... we have a rather large (when compiled, 14m) application. It's one giant EXE (I know...).

Converting/upgrading is out of the question. We are...

it's not that bad... besides, hair is way overrated. :)

GOT IT!!!

The computer had 1.1 installed... however, it was apparently a bad install. I uninstalled and reinstalled. Life is good. I can actually get in.

Thanks!