--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00014 Date: 06/25/97 From: ROBERT DIGGLE Time: 07:50pm \/To: MICHAEL JOSEPHSON (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: Compatibility Hi Michael! Tuesday June 24 1997 09:06, Michael Josephson wrote to Robert Diggle: RD> Hello Robert! (nice to see you using the Cavern like me ;-) ) Of course! I just fixed back into fidonet (about 3 days now) after being off since 1995, ever since that 400 phone bill!! RD>> How can you get version 3 to load version 4 project files (without RD>> messing them up)? RD> Is it just the project file (as in .VBP if that's what it is in VB4) or RD> the whole project you want to be able to use in VB3? The problem with RD> opening VB4 projects in VB3 other than the incompabtible project file RD> format is that VB4 sticks all that Private and Public stuff in your source RD> files so even if you don't use any VB4 specific stuff VB3 still won't be RD> happy with the source code. I really want to convert the who project. It's so I can write my A-Level project at home then read it in at College (VB3). I have turned all the references off (which I don't need), but still no look. RD> Also I haven't read it but I think there is an article in this months VB RD> Journal about conveting projects back to VB3 from VB4. Keep me posted if there is any such software which'll do the trick. I also heard you're writing some kind of software which will convert fido echomail to internet news groups? Also I want to be able to collect my email via POP3 then send it via the fido gateway at fidonet.org or zetnet.co.uk. Is there any service which would do this for me? Robert \/\ Fido: 2:250/102.31 /\/ Email: rdiggle@hotmail.com --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: My Point, Manchester (UK) (2:250/102.31) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00015 Date: 06/25/97 From: STEVEN GARE Time: 10:52pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: 2 Cdroms in VB4 HOW! Hi Ya All! I'm writing a CD player.... Easy i know BUT..... I want it to control 2 yes '2' CDroms Preferable at the same time (ie 2 MCI Controls) but alternating would be ok i suppose! I've tried the MCICTL.DeviceID... i need an API call or sommin to change the CDAudio Device from drive J: to K: SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE!!! :) -----------------+----------------------------------- \./ | Cya L8rz, Steve (0|0) | As life continues so must death..... --ooO--(_)--Ooo--+--------------------------------------- +-- http://www.digitald.uk.com - sysop@digitald.uk.com ----- --- timEd/2 1.10 * Origin: DiGiTaL DiSaLuTioN +44(0)1252-545099 (2:252/503) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00016 Date: 06/26/97 From: FRANCOIS ROY Time: 07:25pm \/To: MIKE JOHNSON (Read 6 times) Subj: VB3 MJ> I need to write a small program that tells the users that they are not MJ> to access the games in windows for example sol.exe, winmine.exe and then MJ> lock the game with a box that sayes "call system administrator" and I'm Rename the files to something else, and put YOUR program under these names. This way, when the user opens these games, your program is activated, does its security check (however you want to do that) and then decides whether to Shell the real program or issue the "Locked" message. --- Msged 4.00 * Origin: Ready & Determined (819)772-9277 (1:163/506) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00017 Date: 06/25/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 02:58pm \/To: EILEEN LOUISE (Read 6 times) Subj: More efficient EL> laughing .... in a way. but two years from now you will be wishing EL> you wrote all of your brilliance down back when you could remember EL> what it was. big grin. A version of "I'm not young enough to know everything." EL> sorry to be so lame answering your email. havent had a day off since EL> may. between work and chuck being away and school being out and EL> getting ready to move ... well you get the picture :) No sweat. I'm old enough that time is flashing by. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00018 Date: 06/25/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 03:00pm \/To: EILEEN LOUISE (Read 6 times) Subj: More efficient EL> there is sql, and then there is sql. i think ralf was referring to EL> SQL Server databases.... which you are not, you are referring to VBs EL> flavor of Standard Query Language. Uh, oh. Didn't know they are that different. EL> entity-relationship diagramming. which is beyond the scope of this EL> echo Beyond the scope of my brain capacity presently. EL> like fields EL> (field families) should be grouped together into records and related EL> one to another through one "master" key for each distinct data EL> grouping. if you can adhere to that, you will always have a good EL> design foundation. if you find you cannot, you have done something EL> wrong which deserves your attention. I seem to have stumbled upon this truism already (by having to go back and do a bit of redesign of some of the tables I was making. Started out not building an index into most of the tables and had to go back and add that. Then I built a simple SQL routine to delete entire tables so I could re-add them with changes without having to rebuild the whole DB from the ground up (12 tables). How goes the saying: "Experience is a dear school and a fool will learn in no other." Now where did I put my dunce cap? --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00019 Date: 06/25/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 07:20pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Printing to printers Well, it seems that the VB4 Documentation is quite correct when it says that "printing is one of the most complex tasks that VB can undertake." Pointers anyone? The following commands appear to be ignored by my printer: Printer.PrintQuality = vbPRPQLow Printer.PrintQuality = vbPRPQHigh it prints in near letter quality regardless (that is what is selected in the properties section of the default printer in Win95.) It honors either of the following: Printer.Orientation = vbPRORLandscape Printer.Orientation = vbPRORPortrait The following drive the printer a bit nuts: Printer.Height = 9000 Printer.Width = 12240 If I set the Height = 10080, that is 7" (1440 twips * 7") and Width = 12240, that is 8.5" (1440 twips * 8.5") The first form prints, but the next attempt gives a general protection fault (GPF). If I fiddle with the value for Height quite a bit, either greater or lower, I can achieve a value that won't give me the GPF. However it perfectly honors the CurrentX and CurrentY declarations and prints just where I want it to. Here is what I want to do: Be able to tell the printer the size of the paper I will be using (in this case both 8.5 x 11 and 8.5 x 7 sizes). The rest I have licked. Advice? --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00020 Date: 06/25/97 From: BUCKY CARR Time: 10:00pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Printer Lessons 101 Time for everyone to learn from my experimenting (or suffer along with me, depending upon your orientation) I gather that Mother Gates doesn't have all the quirks out of his VB4 printer object and the way it interfaces with the spooler and driver. I wrote a routine to interrogate (hot lights and all) the printer driver as to what its default Height and Width properties are. From there, I forced those properties to change some, then read them back to see what the driver twiddle them down to. Interesting (and the VB4 docs said that the driver might do this.) I told the driver to accept these values: Printer.Height = 10080 Printer.Width = 12240 and the driver schmoozed those to Printer.Height = 10070 Printer.Width = 12228 A few lousy twips difference. So I went into my routine and changed the values I was using to the ones the driver wanted and presto, no more General Protection Faults. Of course the printer is still ignoring the values for top-of-next-page alignment purposes. It is assuming 14 inch LONG paper and now ignoring the last line of print on my form. It's late - I'll try to solve this tomorrow and let you know what I find. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Vanishing Point 7198460140 Trinidad CO (1:15/7.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 178 VISUAL BASIC Ref: EAY00021 Date: 06/26/97 From: EILEEN LOUISE Time: 06:44am \/To: NIELS SCHOOT (Read 6 times) Subj: Office Toolbar in VB5 Hi Niels, Niels Schoot to All on Tuesday June 24 1997 NS> Does anyone know how to create a Office97 alike toolbar in VB5? NS> Images for the buttons are on the VB5 CD, but I can't find a way NS> to create the toolbar. some sample code i picked up somewhere follows ... --- eileen@technologist.com * Origin: Television is furniture. (1:326/431)