This Function Adds quotes to a filename… especially useful when sendingan arguement to a program (ie a filename) and it has spaces in it (with spacesif shows up as multiple arguements. Original Author: Digital Inputs str is the String to add quotes to. Assumptions No real “user notes” here…except it was a pain to think this one up =)… Read More »

Create your own duck shoot style game, you can even kill your best buddy, just get a picture of him!!! Original Author: Ed Hockaday API Declarations Code Leave Picture1 blank, make Picture2’s picture a “kill picture” (so when the target is hit a bullet hole appears in it) and make Picture3’s Picture the blank target (ie an “unwounded target”)Copy… Read More »

How to prevent a form/app from unloading , even if you use the taskmanager? Then try this code… (It works for me 😉 Original Author: Riaan Aspeling Side Effects Make sure you DO have a way of closing your form/app Code Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(cancel As Integer, UnloadMode As Integer) ‘To cancel the unload make the cancel = true. Don’t… Read More »

Draws a B-Spline over a PictureBox while the user inputs a series of points with the mouse.It also allows to drag the Control Points of the B-Spline to modify it Original Author: Federico Rahal Assumptions ‘Create a new project, Project1 is created by default‘Add a new module and name it modSpline‘‘Change the name of Form1 to frmSpline‘Add a PictureBox,… Read More »

This code recieves RTF code as output by a Rich Text Box in VB or MS Word. It outputs the equivalent in HTML. It’s in a somewhat BETA form in that it handles a number of but not all of the possible codes. If you encounter a code it doesn’t properly convert just send it to me and… Read More »

This allows a VB program to capture either the screen or the program window.It has been tested under Win95 and NT4.0. It derives from a routine by Dan Appleman (VisualBasic 5.0 Programmer’s Guide to the WIN32 API, page 303) which unfortunately does not work reliably under all conditions. Dan Appleman’s exhaustive preliminary tutorial, though, is all it takes… Read More »

Visual Basic 6 has a new function called InStrRev, which searches a string from right to left. I found it very usefeul, so much so that a project of mine relies completely on it. When I tried to work on the project at another location on VB5 I found that the function did not exist. So, I wrote… Read More »

A easy way to read the Registry. Most of the times I work with the registry I only want to read it, not write to it. PLEASE NOTE: This is a class module and all the code should be paste into a CLASS Module. Original Author: Riaan Aspeling API Declarations ‘ Developed by : Riaan Aspeling‘ Company : Altered… Read More »

Want Attention? Let the title bar of your program blink! Original Author: oXidizer API Declarations Code ‘***Add a timer (timer1) to your form… paste the code below to the global declarations!’***Set the timer interval to 250Private Declare Function FlashWindow Lib “user32” (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal bInvert As Long) As LongPrivate Sub Timer1_Timer()  Call FlashWindow(Form1.hwnd, True)End Sub

This code will disable your program after a certain number of runs of the program. more info: worm@thepentagon.com Original Author: Worm Assumptions Put in Form_Load statement. And this code is for 32-bit programming Only! Side Effects Don’t put this code in while your testing and programming your program because it will then disable you from running your program. more… Read More »