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Been in computer industry for 40 plus years, starting at university with paper tape and punchcards - no screens and no pc's in those days. I provide IT support to small businesses and home users, both hardware and software, supporting customers locally…
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 | [quote=webinvest;352147]Hi all, Now I have no programing experience, I know very little about this, so please bear in mind. I am trying to turn a particular excel spreadsheet I have made (the user inputs information and it creates a final answer(result)) and I want to be able to turn this … |
 | Hi, There are ways, but you need to consider carefully what simoutaneous updating you wish to do. For example if you have a database of names and addresses and two people wish to update it at same time, then if they wish to update different records, no problem should occur. …  |
 | Are you sure these people aren't trying to track your equipment so they can steal it ? Or maybe hackers can find your equipment when you are using it ?  |
| | If you were watching a film was laptop on carpet, bedclothes, etc. I have this and it blocks air vents, causing laptop to overheat and stop. The moral of the story - always put your laptop on a smooth surface so air flows around it.  |
| | Re: Listview help Hello, I use streamwriter/streamreader for writing and reading text files. To read files you need something like s1="path and filename" Dim rf As New StreamReader(s1) linne=rf.readline . . rf.close For writing to files you need something like Using outp As New StreamWriter(data_path$ & Convert.ToString("weight.dat"), True) outp.writeline (var1,var2,.....) outp.close Don't forget …  |
 | Alternatively, create a query in access which has all the information (fields, data selected, etc) you want, then access the query and not the table in your program. |
| | You use i in line 6 but it is not defined. What is happening when yu run ?  |
| | I am writing a VB.Net (VS 2015) application to control equipment in real time which is connected via USB ports. The equipment requires that text string, terminated by a chr(13) be sent. Most commands will get a response back. For example one command (set VALVE1 ON) will open a valve …  |
| | What error messages are you getting ? |
| | I assume you can get the results you want in the database with a query and report ? If so then access the query from VB6 and do what you will with the results. |
| | To answer your question - yes it is possible. I am not a C expert, but the principle I would use is to read in line by line. For each line see if the users' string exists. This assumes that the string you are searching for is completely on a … |
| | As some of you know I am moving to VB.net from VB5. I see that to read and write to text files there are two options 1) Use System.IO.File e.g Filewritealltext ( options...) or 2) Use Streamwriter e.g Dim ts as StreamWriter( options...) Are there any differences, apart from syntax, …  |
 | Should the slashes after website name be pointing other way ? I am not sure why you have two references to website.com in your link e.g http://www.website.com/www.website.com\images\logo\logo.png |
| | Hello, I have for a number of years supported a VB5 application which controls customers equipment. We are now going to do some major changes to software because hardware is changing. It now seems the ideal opportunity to upgrade to a newer/latest version of visual basic, which if we go … |
 | Re: addition program Where are you going to read the two numbers from ? What programing language will you use ? |
 | I think whatever forum you are on people tend not to put a sensible title on their posts. e.g 'Please help' Now that the forum is tagged based it is more obvious. Before if you saw a post in VB5 or 6, for example, wheich was titled 'Please help' then …  |
| | Are you using Excel ? if so then write your results to one sheet. Then put a page heading in, via Page layout, then hit print button. You can scale it to get more on a page, etc.  |
| | If you write a post without having first logged on, then the option to loggon with DaniWeb credentials is not there. Three other loggon options are there which I don't have, but not Daniweb loggon. If you then go to top of screen to loggon you loose what you have … |
| | I need to interface to a USB device from VB.net, where I both read and write to the device. Are there any programing differences between the different USB interfaces, i.e 1,2 and 3 that I should be aware ? Does it matter if say a USB 3 device is plugged … |
 | Hello, I know VB5 better than 6 but in this statement of yours If Data1.Recordset.Fields("C_Number"**) = Text15.Text(i) the index has got to be on recordset, surely, because you have multiple records in recordset and not in Text box ? Hope this points you right direction |
| | Hi This is not a language that I am familiar with, but in line 6 you have int countlev_easy = 0,countlev_med = 0,countlev_hard = 0; In the test you appear to be comparing these variables with letters, not numbers .......... |
| | That looks fine, but I would use employee number/id, rather than his/her name.  |
| | [quote=Gayal;361190]Now at the placement and looking for a Super Cool Final Year Project. [/quote] If it is going to be super cool then it has to be something to do with freezers, surely ??? |
| | Re: wifi problem Sorry I am confused - is the Livebox from Orange ? Can you get access to setup from your laptop ?  |
| | Hello Ian, Please submit code you are using, so we have a chance of helping |
| | I do all my VB5 development in XP window on Windows 7, I don't have any problem. If you generate and install set for your application, then it will install and run on Win 7 pcs. As you can see from a post I have just made application mostly runs … |
| | Hi, Have you plugged in an external monitor ? Then switched to it with correct function key ? Have you tried contrast and bightness keys ? (Sometimes they are on side of screen) Denis |
| | Is the date in windows explorer not what you are looking for ?  |
| | Hi, You say PC's are connected via internet, but how ? Are they connected as if in same building so you can map a drive on the other ? If so then have a mapped drive and the data can be saved to drive on relevant PC. If not, then … |
| | Hello, I support a large VB5 application which is installed and running on a number of windows PC's around the world on versions up to win 7. I have installed it on windows 8 and whilst the program starts, it fails with error 70 in a number of places. On …  |
| | You don't say why you want key. If it is to upgrade from lower version, then you can do it from your PC, have your credit card ready. |
 | [quote=Comatose;251385]It's a problem with my code (BAH): [code]if right(SearchString, 1) = chr(13) or right(SearchString, 1) = chr(10) then ' /* Should be Left, Not Right */ SearchString = left(SearchString, len(SearchString) -1) end if[/code][/quote] I assume you will run this if statement twice because you could have both characters at end … |
| | [COLOR="blue"] Hi, I have been given a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 to fix by a friend, but it is stumping me currently. Friend put new screen because previous one was cracked. He couldn't get it to work, though claims to get it to display like old DOS machines, but I … |
| | Welcome to DaniWeb It sounds as if you have a virus or spyware on the machine. My suggestion 1) unplug work computer from router so you stop any risk of infection passing elsewhere. 2) Even if you have antivirus software go to avast.com. Go to down loads and you will …  |
| | It could be as simple as a stuck key, but if not, then unplug everything external before switching on. Also make sure there are no cd's or floppies in drives. If that does not work then I would remove power lead, battery, wait five minutes before putting battery back in …  |
| | Re: Max Partition [QUOTE=Farhad.idrees;1609135]Hi recenlty i bought N5010 laptop with 320 gb hd... i wanted to create more partition because there was only one which was Os.. i successfully made one partion of 70 gb with the disk management.. but when i created another partition so it just throw an error u cant …  |
| | [QUOTE=vasuv;1502446]Hi , I have a excel sheet.in that one column called hardcoded. we have sheet as folllows. Name EMp_ID Hardcoded ---------------------------- ABC 1987870 1. EMP_SAL_CD : "2000","1300","Avg100" 2. DEPT_CD : "Manager","clerk","anlyst" 3. DNAME : "SALES","HR" STU 1909890 1.EMP_SAL_CD : "6000","300","A100" 2. DEPT_CD : "Manr","cle","ant" 3. DNAME : "SALES","HR","STUD" --- --- … |
| | Hi A few suggestions 1) Try booting without keyboard and see if you get same results. 2) Try booting without mouse 3) Check pins on keyboard plug are straight, then plug back in and reboot 4) Plug Keyboard in other PS2 socket and reboot. 5) If beeping stops replug mouse … |
| | Morning All, I have a customer who has bought a computer with Athlon iix4 Model 635 on a Biostar GF8200E motherboard. This cleaverly alters the processor speed dependant on useage to save energy. The problem is that customer needs to fix the processor speed for a music application he is …  |
| | I would not risk it. The major antivirus software companies won't employ a virus writer, so why risk your system ? Denis  |
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| | Hi, I would remove wireless card and drivers and see if problem goes away. It could be the card, the drivers or one of the updates, hence take out card and see what happens. Also what OS are you running ? Denis |
| | Hi Jill Welcome to the site - good to hear of another biker who carts their laptop on it. There is what I call a design fault in Toshiba Laptops. The socket on the back that you plug the power lead into is purely soldered straight onto motherboard with no … |
| | Have you got a query and possibly a form that show the data you wish to display ? If so then open that instead of switchboard on startup. Denis  |
| | Hi, What is it not doing properly ? Denis |
| | Hi I agree with AndreRet, but two suggestions to think about 1) Put an extra field on database table so when f10 pressed record is maked as deleted, but is not actually deleted. You then need to make sure these records are not selected in other parts of the system. … |
| | [COLOR="blue"]Good morning All I have a customer who has an old DOS application which he wishes to continue running on his new laptop with Windows 7. The software installs correctly and starts to run. Soon after starting it appears to issue a command to switch to full screen mode, at … |
| | Hi, I have done it the past by having a query in Access that returns the wanted records. Then call that query from VB and display/access the records. Hope this helps Denis |
| | Hi, I have tried to use USB to Serial converters withpout coding them and find them unreliable. I therefore suggest you get your company to put serial cards in the new PCs. This means you have same code running on all machines, same cables, etc. Best of luck Denis |
| | It sounds as if you have a conflict of IP numbers - I suggest the ip number for your PC is same as router ? Denis |
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