As far as I know this only works in vb5 and above. I submited this code previously, but the link I provided was incorrect, and that fact has just now come to my attention, so I am now putting this back up. You can download it either from here or my site. Either is fine. To get it… Read More »
This is a class that you can use to make your app pause for a few hours/minutes/seconds or milliseconds. This will work even if midnight occurrs while pausing! (Thus, this is midnight-compliant, just like my CStopwatch class I submitted earlier.) Original Author: Jan Botha Inputs Function pPause(ByVal Number as Single, Optional Byval Unit as iConstants)Number: the number of units,… Read More »
The code is still here, however I am working on an updated version. It will include a new chat, and several other things. If anyone is interested in joining me in creating this program email me at steve81@mediaone.net. Basicly what I am looking to do is get people who may know some cool control functions to add to… Read More »
This code combines the excellent submissions of PrintCode by Ken Chia and the printing from a rich text control by VBPro to display the Windows printing common dialog and then send the rich text box contents to the selected printer with formatting and margins. Original Author: D. Siebold Code ‘This is where the printing is called – assumes a… Read More »
Let the user select a directory (as workingdirectory, or for save/load data to/from, etc.), which is also known as a “Browse for Folder” function. This is the most easy way to provide this feature, just using the standard Common Dialog control. Original Author: John Tegelaar Assumptions Start a new VB5/6 project, and put a CommandButton and a CommonDialog control… Read More »
For ADO database application: To show (1) How to use ADO schema to obtain a list of tables of a database. (2) How to provide a re-usable single form for any MDB file name, and with another form to display as many tables as there are in that database at the same time. Otherwise, you will have to… Read More »
Enables the user to create adhoc queries and reports from user-chosen access databases.User needs to have Word97 to run the reports and references to word 8, ado 2 recordset and dao 3.51 object libraries.Dragndrop fields/tables to choose selection fields and double-click field name for selection criteria. Original Author: Colin McAllister Assumptions User needs to add the following references :Microsoft… Read More »
This is a tabstrip project. By using an array, you can decide which tab container should be shown. Whatever you want to show when that tab is clicked goes into a container. I searched for months trying to learn about tabstrips and I hope this code helps someone else out. Original Author: David VanHook Assumptions In order to use… Read More »
Get the logged on username from Windows 95/98 and NT Original Author: Ryan Hartman API Declarations Declare Function GetUserName Lib “advapi32.dll” Alias “GetUserNameA” (ByVallpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long‘inl as 1 Code gsUserId = ClipNull(GetUser())Function GetUser() As StringDim lpUserID As StringDim nBuffer As LongDim Ret As LonglpUserID = String(25, 0)nBuffer = 25Ret = GetUserName(lpUserID, nBuffer)If Ret ThenGetUser$… Read More »
Finds the default client (default program which Internet Explorer uses) for mail, news, contacts, calender, internet call. Original Author: Chris Porter Inputs Which client you want to find where is stored, for example mail, news or contacts. Assumptions Has only been tested with IE 5.0, and 4.0 under Win98. It might run on Win95, and IE versions lower than… Read More »