Category Archives: Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

Port Control

Ever want to know which of your ports are being used while your on the net? Well, here is a full fledged application, you can scan ports in ranges such as 1-65530 or you can select 11 diffrent ports to scan, and you can watch 2 ports to see if incoming data is being sent on that port.… Read More »

How to add an icon to the tray

One of the questions that occurs most often in the VB Q and A forum is how to add an icon to the tray area of the Windows 95 taskbar.This tip will show you how to add and delete the icon,and also trap the mouse events. Original Author: King Assumptions Create two command buttons (command1 and command2) and a… Read More »

Particle Engine

This program draws a stream of particles eminating from your cursor.They will proceed to fall to the bottom of the screen and bounce around. This is fully customizeable and would make a Great screen saver. UPDATED. LOTS OF OPTIONS!!!! Original Author: Michael Pote Attachments File Uploaded Size CODE_UPLOAD40973202000.zip 9/3/2020 3:45:00 PM 6147

Quoted-Printable — Encode and Decode

Very fast function to encode or decode Quoted-Printable.VB6 only, but you can make it work with other versions, with a 3rd party replace function. Original Author: AndrComm Inputs Just pass it the string to be encoded, or to be decoded. Returns The encoded, or decoded string. Code Public Function DecodeQP(ByRef StrToDecode As String) As StringDim sTemp As StringDim i… Read More »

Pong 2000 with Sound,Bitblit and AI instructions

!Pong 2000 with Sound,Bitblit and AI instructions, Made so you guys can start to program correctly. Those of you that ask how I do it, well here is the source code for you to ponder over…. Have fun, coz I do. Original Author: Derek Hall Attachments File Uploaded Size CODE_UPLOAD481.zip 9/3/2020 3:45:00 PM 14730

Control Registration Wizard

Used to register and unregister OCX and DLL files for use with Visual Basic 5.0 and other programming languages that support OCXs and DLLs. Original Author: Drae Calistair Assumptions Careful what controls and dlls you unregister, as they may be necessary for Windows operation, or for Visual Basic to run. Side Effects Registering controls and dlls allows them to… Read More »

Make ANY Folder The Root Of Windows Explorer

My Code calls The Windows Explorer with the switch “e,/root,” and makes any folder you want the root of the windows explorer Original Author: Jim Side Effects It’s a little slow calling the explorer cause i shell it, if you know better please edit at will Code ‘it’s a module’i went a little DIM crazy with the’variables but it’s… Read More »

Create Multiline Message Boxes!

Creates multiline MsgBoxes Original Author: Ian Gorse Assumptions Just paste the code any where you want Code ”There it iswrap$ = Chr$(10) + Chr$(13)MsgBox “Line number 1” + wrap$ + “Line Number 2”

RPG GAME: Version 2: Updated again

This is the same version of the game I submitted last time, but I’ve removed the timer and now it uses a while loop for character movement, so it runs MUCH faster. Original Author: Matthew Eagar Assumptions You should be a good – intermediat programmer to understand any of this and be able to put it to good use.… Read More »

Basic Sound Engine

Play wave files with one command Original Author: Neil Ramsbottom Inputs You can either specify a Sound Event number, or a filename Assumptions Thanks to Gordon Stewart, author of 4000AD for the base API function. Side Effects None known Attachments File Uploaded Size CODE_UPLOAD476.zip 9/3/2020 3:45:00 PM 1751