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Nahh, to be fair here, easiest is to use the Cairo-Wrapper and the Alpha-capable RC6-FormEngine: (code below only needs a *.bas-Module in a Project...

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Today, 03:35 AM

wqweto replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

The Label is using Unicode API (i.e. DrawTextW) to display the text which is UTF-8 encoded ANSI and fails badly. If it were using DrawTextA it would...

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Today, 03:32 AM

wqweto replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

No, I didn't see no liquid robots yet. Why so serious? This thread is about which VB6 projects we are working on, not some grave mourning about...

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Today, 03:30 AM

VanGoghGaming replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Yeah the caption is being set dynamically to whatever is selected in the RichEdit control: Private Sub richTest1_SelectionChange(SelText As...

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Today, 03:12 AM

wqweto replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

This looks promising actually. Is it that setting Label's caption at run-time not working on second right picture? cheers, </wqw>

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Today, 03:11 AM

Eduardo- replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

But the concerns are not about skiing, but about what georgekar said in #441: human extinction. Or if not extinction, slavery or whatever bad for...

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Today, 03:05 AM

VanGoghGaming replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Yeah just tested this "activeCodePage" setting with locale names and it doesn't seem to make any difference at all. The only setting that seems to...

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Today, 02:55 AM

wqweto replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Frankly I'm not scared even if I should be. Very much doubt that in near future (say 50 years) AI has any chance enjoying skiing as much as I do :-))...

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Today, 02:53 AM

Arnoutdv replied to a thread Question on SQLite SQL query for Data Conversion in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Can you first explain how you build your DB? Is it a daily DB file or do store each new date in the same DB in the same table?

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Today, 02:44 AM

ksmateer replied to a thread Programmers wanted to beta test a numerical library in Project Requests

That's a good idea. The help file is an HTML file. Is there a place where I can upload it so that users can download it? If not then I can always...

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Today, 02:44 AM

Eduardo- replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

That's the problem. Self-hosted or not, does that point matter?

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Today, 02:15 AM

Niya replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I agree with the sentiments here, however, my comments were directed towards the immediate future, lets say 5 to 10 years from now. I think this will...

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Today, 02:10 AM

Eduardo- replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Centuries or months? There are already vegans claiming that animals should have the same rights as humans. There has been a case of someone thinking...

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Today, 01:58 AM

wqweto replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I tried cp1251, Windows-1251, bg_BG, bg-BG and every other combination I could fathom and it was *not* working as expected. I wanted my Cyrillic...

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Today, 01:50 AM

VanGoghGaming replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

According to this page (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220531-00/?p=106697) the only accepted settings for "ActiveCodePage" are:...

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Today, 01:46 AM

bickmahal10 replied to a thread How to pass Form Name to a Sub in Module in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Call LockAllC(Me) 'Call LockAllC(CheckinF) we can write Form Name or Me to pass this name to Module

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Today, 01:17 AM

bickmahal10 replied to a thread How to pass Form Name to a Sub in Module in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Code in Module Public Sub LockAllC(frmForm As Form) Dim contL As Control For Each contL In frmForm.Controls If TypeOf contL Is TextBox Then...

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Today, 01:07 AM

wqweto replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

The promise is that coming out of BETA the feature will be tested enough and Microsoft will make it work even for non-intended applications. You get...

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Today, 01:05 AM

wqweto replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Slave AIs -- sounds reasons and very human thing to do. Then centuries later we'll have AI slavery abolishment acts, pretty much history repeated. ...

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Today, 01:01 AM

Eduardo- replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

But that should not be an option, the final user shouldn't be able to set that, because it is totally wrong. The one that knows if the App can work...

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Today, 12:58 AM

wqweto replied to a thread UpdateLayeredWindow and elliptic region (Jagged edges) in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Easiest is using GDI+ the way LeandroA used Call GdipSetSmoothingMode(hGraphics, SmoothingModeAntiAlias) It's possible with only GDI too but first...

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Today, 12:51 AM

wqweto replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Code with Asc and Chr$ functions works on all but one PC where needs AscW and CHRW in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

My understanding is that you need custom manifest to force UTF-8 codepage for you app no matter what global checkbox state is. At the same time with...

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Today, 12:34 AM

pel11 replied to a thread VB.NET Text Comparison to C# in C#

Thank you, that worked in C# like you said.

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Today, 12:28 AM

dilettante replied to a thread please help I need the code to install this program in silent ?? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

The product's EULA requires that you provide specified notices upon installation even if you bypass notice dialogs built into the developer package...

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Today, 12:18 AM

dilettante replied to a thread Stuff to watch in General Discussion / Chit Chat

In regard to "Revolution" (2012-2014) above, who remembers when the weird AI ("the Nano") started doing bizarre experiments on rats and humans to the...

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Today, 12:06 AM

jpbro replied to a thread Programmers wanted to beta test a numerical library in Project Requests

Can you post the help file? It might drum up some interest if the documentation looks interesting.

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Yesterday, 11:52 PM

Eduardo- replied to a thread Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

In fact, "reason"... it won't have reason for anything, you are thinking like it would be a human. But no, humans have needs that have to be...

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