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TAlvord10-Dec-04 10:20

10-Dec-04 10:20

I have a 32x32 256 color cursor that I want to add to a VB resource file. The problem is that when it gets added, it changes the entire cursor to black. Any ideas?

What I would really like to do is to save an icon file in the resource. If anybody knows how to do this also, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

Re: Resource file cursor problem...

Mekong River11-Dec-04 4:15

Mekong River

11-Dec-04 4:15

Have you tried to use the cursor when your application is running? I have no much idea about that but make sure that your icon file is originally create with the program that create icon (I mean don't change the file extension from the other file). Check your monitor color... to make sure that everything is running properly. The best idea is find any machine that have VB6 and load any cursor file. If it work fine then copy the cursor file to the machine that have a problem and test it, and vice versa.

A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.

APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office

Text box validation for Last name

sangsram10-Dec-04 6:45

sangsram

10-Dec-04 6:45

I hve a text box in my projet where user has to input Lastname.
The first character of the the last name shld be upper case.
Also i shld check wheater the input is alphabet.is there anything like isAlphabetic function in the vb.net

Re: Text box validation for Last name

nitin_ion10-Dec-04 20:19

nitin_ion

10-Dec-04 20:19

I don't think there is any function in .net which can convert string to proper case and to check validation try creating ur own function which can validate input by grabbing keyascii on keypress event.

Re: Text box validation for Last name

Dave Kreskowiak11-Dec-04 4:13

Dave Kreskowiak

11-Dec-04 4:13

There is no isAlphabetic function anywhere. You'll either have to write your own where the function will go through the string, character by character, and verify that it is an alphabetic character, or you could probably use a Regular Expression to verify that it is in the proper format. I'm far from an expert on Regular Expressions, so I don't know what the expression string would look like.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Re: Text box validation for Last name

Mekong River11-Dec-04 4:24

Mekong River

11-Dec-04 4:24

You have to write your own code. In my opinion you should write the code as the following concept.

1. Write the code in the KeyPress or KeyCode event to check whether the textbox is blank or not.
2. If the textbox is blank, then any letter between a to z have to plus with 32 (I mean the ascii code of that letter must pluse with 32, Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

maybe 32, try to check in the ascii code table). Then the small letter between a to z will display in capital letter A to Z.
3. If the textbox is not blank, then don't do anything.

Try to do it and wish you good luck.

A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.

APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office

msscript.ocx question...

CherezZaboro10-Dec-04 4:50

CherezZaboro

10-Dec-04 4:50

I don't know if this is the right forum but I have a question about microsoft script control (msscript.ocx). I need to call scripts (VBS,JS...) from my app (C++ or whatever). I wonder if msscript.ocx is the right tool for that. Is there a more supported by Microsoft API for that?

They talk a lot about Scripting host but in terms of writing the scripts, not how to call them.

Thanks a lot!

DDE with API : sending a BMP

Christian Hubert-Hugoud10-Dec-04 4:45

Christian Hubert-Hugoud

10-Dec-04 4:45

Hi all,

I use DDE with API and it runs fine with texts. Now I need to "transfer" a picture from my app to MS Word. I have a picture in the PictureBox, and I need to move it to a ByteArray.

How may I do that ?

Best Regards

Christian

Open Word Document from VB.Net

Rand62610-Dec-04 4:10

Rand626

10-Dec-04 4:10

Do you have any examples of retrieving a Word Document (Blob) stored in SQL Server into Microsoft Word using VB.NET?

Arthur D. Lorenzini
Database Analyst
State of South Dakota
arthur.lorenzini@state.sd.us

Re: Open Word Document from VB.Net

Dave Kreskowiak10-Dec-04 5:22

Dave Kreskowiak

10-Dec-04 5:22

You'll have to convert the BLOB back into a file, then open it with Word. Three distinct steps. There are many example of retrieving blobs all over the Web. Try this[^] for a start. The rest is easy, save it to a temporary file and the launch it using ShellExecute.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

how Can I use events from base classes?

gaesquivel10-Dec-04 2:45

gaesquivel

10-Dec-04 2:45

I try, but a message appears! "Can't use event from base classes (or similar)"

so I wrote a shadows Event in the inheritate class to replace the original Event, but no other object what subscribs to the shadows Event don't capture it!

What can I do?

Example

Class BaseCls

public Event OnMessage()

End Class

Class A
Inherits BaseCls

Public Shadows Event OnMessage()

......

Sub DoSomething
Raise Event OnMessage
End Sub

End Class

Class Other

private withEvents Obj1 as A

sub new
...
addhandler Obj1.OnMessage, AddressOf SubDel
end sub

.....

sub SubDel()
'this don't work???
'Event capture don't work
End Sub

....

End Class

Gabriel

Re: how Can I use events from base classes?

Peter9310-Dec-04 3:09

Peter93

10-Dec-04 3:09

Hi Gabriel,

Just implement a function or sub in your base class that actually contains the code to raise the event, then call that function or sub from your derived class.

Pete

How to insert a Word File into a form??? (in VB6.0)

john_tran10-Dec-04 2:12

john_tran

10-Dec-04 2:12

How to insert a Document File (Word Doc) into a form in VB6.0.
And user cannot change anything , just show ints contain to user.
If the contain too long , It will show scrollbar so that user can scroll it and view.
How can i do that?
(Use OLE, i dont know how to use it?)
Thanks

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JohnJone

Re: How to insert a Word File into a form??? (in VB6.0)

Dave Kreskowiak10-Dec-04 5:16

Dave Kreskowiak

10-Dec-04 5:16

You'll need to locate a 3rd party "viewer" control you can drop on your form an use. Or you can use the components that are installed with Office. There's a catch with that though, the controls are heavy and are a pain to use if all you want to do is view a document.
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RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Re: How to insert a Word File into a form??? (in VB6.0)

john_tran10-Dec-04 14:47

john_tran

10-Dec-04 14:47

Tell me the detail please.
I dont know what to do now.

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JohnJone

How to check " charector in VB

Boominathan9-Dec-04 22:42

Boominathan

9-Dec-04 22:42

I want to check a string if it has " charector or not in VB... how can i check for it??

Thanks
Boomi.

Re: How to check " charector in VB

Florent Geffroy9-Dec-04 22:48

Florent Geffroy

9-Dec-04 22:48

You have to use a regular expression :

<br />
Imports System.text.RegularExpressions<br />
<br />
Module RegExpTest<br />
<br />
    Sub Main()<br />
<br />
        Dim Str As String = "fazerty""uiopqsd"<br />
<br />
        Dim RegQuote As New Regex("""")<br />
<br />
       Console.WriteLine(RegQuote.Match(Str).Success)<br />
<br />
        Console.ReadLine()<br />
<br />
    End Sub<br />
<br />
End Module<br />

And, by the way, it's "character", not "charector" Wink | ;)

Re: How to check " character in VB

Boominathan9-Dec-04 22:55

Boominathan

9-Dec-04 22:55

Actually i'm asking how to check this in VB... how to use regular expresions in VB..?? I think u have given the code in .NET... pls help..

Thanks
Boomi.

Re: How to check " character in VB

Florent Geffroy9-Dec-04 23:15

Florent Geffroy

9-Dec-04 23:15

Ow sorry

I thought you asked in VB.NET D'Oh! | :doh:

Re: How to check " charector in VB

Anonymous9-Dec-04 22:53

Anonymous

9-Dec-04 22:53

If you use the InStr func, it will look something like this:

Dim WhereIsTheQuote As Integer

WhereIsTheQuote = InStr( 1, original_line, Chr$(34), vbTextCompare)

As you might have guessed already, 34 is the ASCII Chr$acter code for the quotes. If there are any quotes, the place where they first appear on the string will be returned. If there are some more quotes, other than the first ones, they will not be reported by InStr(), keep that in mind.

Pablo.ar

Re: How to check " charector in VB

Boominathan9-Dec-04 23:08

Boominathan

9-Dec-04 23:08

Thank u... i got the solution now...

Thanks
Boomi.

Linking DLL's

Simon W Ross9-Dec-04 22:18

Simon W Ross

9-Dec-04 22:18

How do I link my basic exe VB program to a dll in order to access the prototypes available in the dll?
I downloaded the DLL and now it's sitting around cos I don't know how to access it...

Re: Linking DLL's

Dave Kreskowiak10-Dec-04 3:24

Dave Kreskowiak

10-Dec-04 3:24

If it's a plain library .DLL, you'll need the docs on it. Without them, you'll be groping around in the dark. You can get the function names using the Depends utility that came with Visual Studio 6, but you won't be able to get the parameters that each function takes. It's simply not available from the .DLL itself.

There are exceptions to this, of course. First if it's a COM registered .DLL, you set a reference to the .DLL instead of using Declare yada yada yada. All public functions will be available with their parameter lists. Or, if the .DLL comes with a .TLB file, you can import that as a reference instead.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

prevent form from closing

Nadroj9-Dec-04 10:12

Nadroj

9-Dec-04 10:12

im wondering how you can setup a form so it cannot be closed?

i am trying to have a form so that the only way to get rid of it is to press a button on the form, which will only .hide() it. and another button on different form will .show() it, restoring all of it's window settings, etc. this is including when the user presses alt+f4 or hits the X (close) button, to hide rather than close the form.

...

i was just reading up on it, and it seems to work like this:

Private Sub BrowserForm_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing<br />
    e.Cancel() = True<br />
    Me.Hide()<br />
End Sub

this the proper way to do this?

thanks for any input.

------------------------
Jordan.
III

how to grap current HTML

rwbuentello9-Dec-04 8:16

rwbuentello

9-Dec-04 8:16

When envoked, I need my VB application to grab the current contents of the IE browser window. The app will take current browser window HTML and parse. Any code examples or suggestions?

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