Need some help making this code

[DavidNels]

Hi,

First and foremost, I want to thank you all for helping so much the past few days. I understand the purpose of this board is, in general, more or less to ask questions about certain aspects of VB6 that you're having problems with, but not to hold your hand through your whole project without you doing any work!

However, I'm pretty new at VB6 and probably in a tiny bit deep with this project, given my experience.

Enough already! On to the project;
This article talks about supressing the click-noise in your WebBrowser controls. The very bottom post is what I'm wanting to do here, which you will see how it is done by reading his post.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...54909&SiteID=1

I understand fully what he's saying, problem is that I'm just not oriented with VB6 enough to set out and do these kind of things, so I'd really appreciate anyone's help with getting the actual code for this written out, if you give me a rough code I can make refinements.

Thanks again for everyone's help.

[westconn1]

do a search in the forum for reading and writing registry keys
the key you need to read /write, is shown in the link in the post you specify
there will be hundreds of example in this forum for reading and writing to registry
working out a safe proceedure to reset the sound when your program finishes is a little tricky, especially if your app crashes and does not get to the part needed to do the resetting, but there are various ways to solve that

[astroanu2004]

if your using vb6 theres something called snippets. in there you'll find a function which you can use to read and write to the registry.

[DavidNels]

I've just about got everything figured out, but I was curious as to the legalities and rules of editing a user's registry keys that do not belong to the program itself. Aka, clearing them temporarily like in this situation. Particularly these keys, part of the operating system.

I Google'd a bit but really didn't find anything.

[westconn1]

it is bad practice to change users settings on there computers, you should in most cases work around their settings, in some case the user is just using a default setting because it is there and they don't know how to change, i hate programs that decide how i want my computer to behave, especially without asking /notifying
also changing any registry key should be undertaken with care, as screwing up the registry can stop windows from working, and make your program really popular

[techgnome]

While technically it's not really illegal to edit a user's settings.... it's a matter of ethics and trust. I won't use apps that seem to arbitrarily change settings, especially w/o notice, warning or my consent... Maybe I have that turned on for a reason....

-tg

[DavidNels]

I will likely offer it as an extra unchecked-by-default option in my installer, dubbing it a fix for what some users find repetitive or annoying in our software.

Thanks for the info.

[astroanu2004]

So why cant you use a code that will look up if that perticular option is true on registry make it false. and when the app exits execution, make the setting to the previous true state?

[si_the_geek]

As westconn1 and TG explained above, it is a very rude thing to do, here are the two main reasons:

1) The setting can affect other programs (in this case, Internet Explorer), so they will act differently (or even fail completely) while your program is running.

2) If for some reason you don't set it back again (like if your program crashes, or the PC does, or there is a power cut), the user will be stuck with the setting(s) that you chose.

[EntityReborn]

Has this been resolved? as far as crashing/etc and not resetting the reg entry, a small app could be set to run at boot, resetting the value.

[westconn1]

yes that is correct, but in the mean time all / any other apps using the same settings will still work differently to what is expected, one of the most common requests is to change the date settings on the computer to suit a program, which may screwup any number of other programs,
much better to fix your program within your programs design

[EntityReborn]

hmm, I know in C++ you can expand on classes, could not this person expand on the browser class, and null out this event?