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Today, 04:40 AM

fafalone replied to a thread [VB6] TaskDialogIndirect - Complete class implementation of Vista+ Task Dialogs in CodeBank - Visual Basic 6 and earlier

Kind of surprised even tabbing out works... I guess since the TextBox has it as a parent, but then the dialog doesn't know about outside child...

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Today, 03:12 AM

fabel358 replied to a thread Private Declare Sub CopyMemory or Vb6.CopyMemory in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Huh? According to this interpretation, copying "UDTs" with "header CopyMemory" copies not only the pointers to the strings, but also the strings?...

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Today, 02:16 AM

baka replied to a thread Can't capture the ESC key in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

the "waits" for another program could freeze it up. no matter if u have a doevents after it. during that time it will not respond. u need to set the...

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Today, 01:38 AM

jmcilhinney replied to a thread MouseHover same as MouseMove? How to get the x/y position of the window? in Visual Basic .NET

Private Sub Form1_MouseHover(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.MouseHover Dim mousePosition = PointToClient(Cursor.Position) ...

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Today, 12:41 AM

ozBillo replied to a thread [VB6] TaskDialogIndirect - Complete class implementation of Vista+ Task Dialogs in CodeBank - Visual Basic 6 and earlier

I've been using this in VB6 and I noticed that in all the Input Box examples you can tab out of the input box, but you can't tab back into it. Is...

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Yesterday, 09:31 PM

wes4dbt replied to a thread Hamilton 5x World Champion ? in General Discussion / Chit Chat

Yeah, Max is still very much in the mix for the championship so is Piastri. Actually all the usual suspects are hovering around. HAAS looks...

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Yesterday, 09:15 PM

ragkag started a thread Can't capture the ESC key in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I have a For loop that shells to another program and waits for it to complete. I then write a line to a listbox that is defined on a form called...

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Yesterday, 06:56 PM

PlausiblyDamp replied to a thread Why does the exact method not work in another app. ? in Visual Basic .NET

Do the other apps run as admin? Or if not do you get prompted to elevate when you run the above command?

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Yesterday, 04:34 PM

FunkMonkey started a thread MouseHover same as MouseMove? How to get the x/y position of the window? in Visual Basic .NET

In VBA code the x/y parameters are sent with the call, so it's easy to do what I want with the item. (see below) I don't get a mousemove option from...

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Yesterday, 03:58 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] function to capture keyboard events. Where do I find that? in Visual Basic .NET

Thanks wes, looks like what I need.

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Yesterday, 03:53 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] function to capture keyboard events. Where do I find that? in Visual Basic .NET

JMC, I tried to select the object -> open Properties, but in Properties is no place to select other handlers. I would show a picture but my screen...

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Yesterday, 03:34 PM

wes4dbt replied to a thread [RESOLVED] function to capture keyboard events. Where do I find that? in Visual Basic .NET

Here you would use the "e" parameter to check what key was pressed. Private Sub TextBox1_KeyDown(sender As Object, e As KeyEventArgs) Handles...

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Yesterday, 03:22 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] function to capture keyboard events. Where do I find that? in Visual Basic .NET

Thanks Shaggy, but I really do need to capture the <ENTER> key. Here is my VBA code. Private Sub CB_EVENT_NUMBER_KeyDown(ByVal KeyCode As...

9 replies | 291 view(s)

Yesterday, 03:11 PM

wes4dbt replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Modifying Excel workbooks, any good code available? in Visual Basic .NET

You don't have to use the Office Interop to import Excel data. You can do it using the OLEDB Data provider. Both work fine. Here is an example...

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Yesterday, 02:48 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] function to capture keyboard events. Where do I find that? in Visual Basic .NET

Thanks JMC, I'll give this a try and see if I can get it working. Maybe Shaggy has a way as well.

9 replies | 291 view(s)

Yesterday, 02:45 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] function to capture keyboard events. Where do I find that? in Visual Basic .NET

Thanks Shaggy, but I really do wan to process the <ENTER> key. This is possible in VBA. Private Sub CB_EVENT_NUMBER_KeyDown(ByVal KeyCode As...

9 replies | 291 view(s)

Yesterday, 02:27 PM

SwampeastMike replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Static/Dynamic Arrays in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Yes. Thanks I recall now that doing this requires fully public variables. Of course I got a runtime error until I made them global. ...

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Yesterday, 02:05 PM

OptionBase1 replied to a thread Hamilton 5x World Champion ? in General Discussion / Chit Chat

Liam Lawson qualifying dead last for the race. Not good. I mean, yes, it is only his second race weekend in the seat. But to be that far off of...

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Yesterday, 01:59 PM

SwampeastMike replied to a thread Playing .ogg, .mp3 and .wav files. in Visual Basic .NET

I can confirm that the "Web Media Extensions" package in the Microsoft Store does in fact include .OGG/Vorbis playback ability. It's a very quick...

7 replies | 280 view(s)

Yesterday, 01:41 PM

FunkMonkey replied to a thread [RESOLVED] How to get Microsoft Interop in toolbox for use in Visual Basic .NET

Thaks you so much..... This is exactly what I was looking for. :)

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Yesterday, 01:14 PM

fafalone replied to a thread [RESOLVED] Static/Dynamic Arrays in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Not quite following but yes if you declare it as Static the dimensions and contents will still be there on the next call to that function. Sounds...

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Yesterday, 11:16 AM

OptionBase1 replied to a thread Why does the exact method not work in another app. ? in Visual Basic .NET

I would guess that the other applications that you say this code works in has additional code in them that is first launching a command prompt and...

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Yesterday, 10:48 AM

Poppa Mintin replied to a thread Why does the exact method not work in another app. ? in Visual Basic .NET

Tried the new app in the other laptops but it didn't sync the time in either of those. :(

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Yesterday, 10:48 AM

VB6 Programming replied to a thread twinBASIC programming - Beta releases in TwinBASIC

BETA 720 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now released... Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases Click on...

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Yesterday, 10:23 AM

SearchingDataOnly replied to a thread Image Annotation & Markup Tools (RC6/Cairo Based) in CodeBank - Visual Basic 6 and earlier

I re-downloaded your new code and it works really well. Much appreciated.

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Yesterday, 09:39 AM

AAraya replied to a thread String Interpolation, String Formatting, Composite Formatting, Template Literals in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

I like the support for custom format strings in jpbro's code. I've added that in my version. I'm also adding some unit tests which I created to...

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Yesterday, 09:18 AM

SwampeastMike started a thread [RESOLVED] Static/Dynamic Arrays in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

Can I use the Static statement to dimension a locally global dynamic array in an ordinary module whose values are retained until I specifically...

2 replies | 201 view(s)

Yesterday, 08:36 AM

fafalone replied to a thread How do I get the baseaddress of a 64 bit process? in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

https://sandsprite.com/CodeStuff/vb6_utypes.zip Also this thread is old so I'll add a reminder you no longer need to know another language like...

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Yesterday, 06:07 AM

silver-surfer replied to a thread String Interpolation, String Formatting, Composite Formatting, Template Literals in Visual Basic 6 and Earlier

thank your for you valuable time and effort

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