Category Archives: Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

Windows 95/98/NT/2000 PARODY

This is a cool parody on Microsoft Windows. It has a fully-functional (well, sort of…) Start Menu, as well as ‘My Computer’ and ‘Internet Explorer’ icons… and some brilliant graphics… try it, it’s weird, you might like it… FEEDBACK PLEASE! Original Author: Benny Rossaer Attachments File Uploaded Size CODE_UPLOAD33802132000.zip 9/3/2020 3:45:00 PM 101219

ListView SubImages

This code show how to place images in the subitems of a listview. It also has a function for placing the direction arrow in a column header to indicate the sort direction while compensating for existing header icons. Original Author: John Allan Lee Attachments File Uploaded Size CODE_UPLOAD33652112000.zip 9/3/2020 3:45:00 PM 6931

Form Manipulator [Revisited]

If you didn’t see my previous form manipulation example then you gotta see this. This is some pretty good stuff, great for newbies. New Subs added! Don’t miss out on this, you’ll be happy you looked at it. Code all done in a professional way. Extremely nice routines for simple manipulation of any form. Cuts down your own… Read More »

Thumbnail Image Browser (Updated)

UPDATED! The ultimate Thumbnail Browser! Creates thumbnails of all VB 6.0 supported image formats from whatever folder it’s pointed to. Uses BrowseForFolder API, so it will even work across networks. Click edit to shell your favorite editor and load the selected image. New code includes progress bar and saves the last window size size and position settings. 2/15/2000… Read More »

AutoMailer

A.K.A. The Spam-o-matic. This app uses the Microsoft MAPI Controls 6.0. You must be running Outlook for this code to work. I originally used it as an automatic remailer for a web site. It has been modified to use an Access database to store e-mail addresses of ‘recipients’. The program will only mail ONE message per user as… Read More »

Wordprocessor

Hey all –> This is the first beta of a wordprocessor called “SJOTS Perfect 5” I wrote…you can find the previous versions on my website, but this beta (well, it’s more freeware) works pretty good. It can do almost anything with Rich Text Files (RTF). Please leave any comments how you think about it! 🙂 Original Author: Swift Attachments… Read More »

Making A Splash Screen!!

Load any program and the first thing you see is a splash screen. Splash screens usually display the program’s name along with a graphic of some sort, such as a pen for the Microsoft Word splash screen or the company’s logo for the Procomm Plus splash screen. Original Author: DaMaStA Assumptions At the start of every project you create,… Read More »

A list of Api calls

A list a usefull api calls that i thought people might be able to use. Original Author: Aaron Chaffee Code How do I change the Double click time of the mouse?The double click time is the time between two consecutive mouse clicks that will cause a double click event. You can change the time from your VB Application by… Read More »

text object line info

The first function returns usefull information about text box objects. these include :[Line count] = 0[Cursor Position] = 1[Current Line Number] = 2[Current Line Start] = 3[Current Line End] = 4[Current Line Length] = 5[Current Line Cursor Position] = 6[Line Start] = 7[Line End] = 8[Line Length] = 9The next function returns the text of a given line… Read More »

CopyFileAny

This code allows you to copy any file, including your application to another destination at runtime.Note: This code has only been tested on Windows 98 using Visual Basic 6.0 Original Author: Mike Owens Inputs Input file, output file Assumptions Note: This sub is only useful for copying inaccessable files. For regular files, the “FileCopy” sub should be called. An… Read More »