Bob Jacobs

I wish to call a form with the form name contained in a variable using a declaration such as [CODE]public myform as form[/CODE] will work if the formname is used. but myform will not accept a variable containing the form name

Hi I want to blow up a picture. How can I do this in code, any ideas? VB 4 or 6

[QUOTE=pluckon;1185107]Looks like it may be exactly what I am after. Will try it this afternoon and post results John[/QUOTE] not quite sure what you are saying here, I entered the jpg address ithat you gave into explorer and a DVD case of La Furia is displayed. right click on the …

I can't really see a forum that matches my enquiry, so I apologise in advance if I have the wrong one....I want to incorporate 'captcha' in a web site...looked at loads of webs sites on the subject but really don't understand what they are saying.. I use a 'Form' in …

There are rather a lot of complicated replies, when the solution is fairly simple...put all your numbers in a collection, select a number randomly from the collection..remove that from the collection. A duplicate is therefore impossible the principle is: (declarations) public numarray as new collection public selectednum(1 to 5) as …

I have written some 50 solitaire games in VB4, including spider, klondyke, etc. I found that images would not drag properly, but staggered across the screen, and pictures (using drag drop) only moved the picture outline, I resolved this by programming the picturebox to follow the mousedown, mousemove and mouseup …

Can anyone tell me, what to change in the VB4 application setup program to prevent it from reporting a negative available memory during set up?

OK so I have created by VB application I have created my setup files. I have zipped them up with winrar, selecting .Zip as the format. I have put the zipped up file on my ISP, and I have a web page with a button linking to the zipped up …

I am using VB 4 and have some VB programs that I would like people to be able to download from my web page. The whole thing is a mystery to me..what do I have to do..In English would be appreciated

The principle of setting up files on a server to be downloaded and installed by a web user is a black art to me. Could anyone explain how I can do this.

You can, of course, change a volume label by going to 'my computer' select the drive, select 'properties' and type in the new name. However, how can I do this through VB 4/6?

Easy really..just copy setvolumelabel from the windows API. Works fine but does not seem to want to change C: drive. Any ideas?

[QUOTE=jaasaria;732453]hi.. i would like to save every word in the sentence separating by space " "... any idea on it?? thxx[/QUOTE] this is one way 'set up an array to contain the words Dim words(1 To 100) As String 'get the length of the sentence sentencelength = Len(sentence) 'set a …

create a textbox on your form and use the keypress event to monitor the input keyascii=13 for carriage return 42 and 43 for plus and minus and 45 and 47 for divide and multiply, in this way, you can create complex input such as 120*67/34+5-7 moving the numbers to variables …

How can I get an image control to pass in front of a picturebox control, rather than behind it. ZOrder doesn't do it.

Hi all This is my first day, I have been involved with Computers for donkey's years I have knowledge of Fortran,Cobol and would you believe Elliott 803 Autocode I am self taught, write Web sites for fun and profit, including my own 'www.ravjacobs.co.uk' and program in Visual Basic as a …

Forgive me if your version of VB allows the syntax you have shown. In VB 4 it would be if label1="X" and label2="X" and label3="X" then I would do it this way 'set up flags for all possible lines, do this bit 'in the form load event For I = …

I am moving gif images(that have transparencies set) around the screen, which move over similar images. autoredraw is set to true, however the transparent part of the background images takes on parts of the image passing over it.