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i m having a really silly problem. i have written some codes with mscomm, but i dont know why all of a sudden i m having this problem.

the problem is:

Private Sub Form_Load()
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udaywali thanks so much for ur help. ur code has been very helpful for me. i have used the split function to get the particular value of a string. but i used ur code for plotting the...

thanks again for ur response. the end use of the code is to get data from a device, plot the data as it arrives in the serial port, and once all the data has arrived some post processing has to be...

thanks udaywali for ur response. in my code i have used timer to poll the port. i know how to display the data in a text box and to save it in a file. what i need is to know how to plot the data (i...

thank u all for pouring in the suggestions and codes. that was real helpful. i am now able to get data from the serial port and also can save it. my ultimate goal is to plot the data i m getting from...

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i need to read and store data from a device through serial port. i have searched the forum but havent found something which is really helping me. can anyone give me some resources or sample...

comatose.. can u plz give me some code example of graphing from text/excel data file. thanks in advance.

hmm.. ok i was really upbeat abt getting this kidnapping thing done. bad for me it didnt work.
yea maybe u r rite.. maybe i have to go via the textfile/excel file way. i can plot a graph from given...

no.. it doesnt

i run ur code. i first started labview manually and run the labview program. then i run ur vb code. when i run the vb code it displays the labview window infront of the form (not on the form) as a...

sorry forgot to add this in the previous post:
if capturing the graph isnt possible.. then i wud be glad even to capture the complete front panel of the labview.. only thing is that it needs to show...

actually i wud like only the graph to steal.. but ur program doesnt differentiates between the graph or the labview window(front panel). whenever i take the mouse over the labview window(front panel)...

thanks comatose for taking so much interest and helping me out. i really appreciate this. i have run the program and here is what i got:
hwnd: 13239932
class: LVDChild
Caption: Acquire Data and...

here is the text file. the values are seperated by comma. the first data is date and isnt needed. now the second is time of measurement and the rests are some measurement value. new data will be...

ok i will post the data file.. just give me a few mins.
and regarding the kidnap thing.. that was exactly my idea to begin with... but cudnt find a way to do it. if that cud have been done.. wow.....

well i have checked with labview and found that labview doesnt allow vb to get its graph. that is the graph object of labview isnt accessible to vb.
i understand what u said abt the vb coding...

no its just adding the data..

guys... can u plz give me some ideas about this real time plotting thing.
i have a text/excel data file where data is being continously added. i want to plot this data wrt time on a vb form.
i m...

ok i got ur point.
in that case i wud like, as the labview program wud continuously add/save data to a excel/text file... vb wud continously read this file and plot the graph in its form or...

yea labview can write a text file or excel data file.

hii all
yet another question from me..
i have written a code in vb6 to call a labview7.1 vi and run it. the labview code acquires data and plots the data continuously as long as the program is...

u can use visdata to make a database.. access isnt needed to be present in ur comp. to open visdata: click as follows
addin>visual data manager. visdata wud be open.
then click
file>new>microsoft...

in the properties section of ur form, go down to windowstate.. click the arrow and set it to 2-maximized. at runtime ur window wud be maximized. hope this helps.

well i wrote a code which generates two pics using a software. all i want is to display them in a picturebox.
thanks for the code.. i will go thru it.

no .. not over it.. but below the first picture.. they r two separate pictures.

well but there might be a small problem...
the first pic is quite large in size.. so for that to be displayed i have to make a picbox of that size which wud take most of the screen area.. so where...

hmm thats a good idea.. why didnt i think of that..
thanks comatose.

hii all
i guess this is a simple problem but somehow i cant figure out the answer to it. i wrote a vb6 code which uses a particular software to draw a picture, saves it in the hard disk and then...

seems no one is interested to give me some suggestions or help me.
anywayz..
i have written a code using ado which connect a access database and searches a particular field and displays relevant...

i have gone thru the tutorial code and also written my code based on that. as of now i can link my database and also retrieve a data of my choice and display it in a text box.
now what i want is...

thank u very much comatose. i will go through the attached file and will try my best to do whatever i can. as far as my vb skills are concerned i m not really very good, but yea i have done some...

thanks for ur reply comatose. actually i havent yet started the project. i am looking around to get some help to get myself started. i m not very sure how do i link access 2003 and vb6.. i mean do i...

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i m new to this topic, though I have some experience of using VB to control excel.
I have an access database which has some records. The columns(fields) are first name, lastname, year of...

thanks for ur response..
here is the code

Dim appExcel As Excel.Application
Dim appBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim appSheet As Excel.Worksheet

Private Sub cmdExcel_Click()
Set appExcel = New...

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I need to solve a equation using excel solver from visual basic 6. i did it manually in excel and recorded tha macro. however when i trid to automate excel using vb, an error message is...

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i have a labview program that records and saves data in .lvm format. i need to open that file in excel using visualbasic 6. the problem is the file isnt in a correct format. so if i...