Recent content by DonPeters

Check out www.mztools.com I've found this to be a very helpful tool. It includes a very intuitive tab order setting tool.

Dave, I've got some time this afternoon too, email it to me as well don.peters @ earthlink.net

Have you tried to see if the generator.exe gives any help? thy (from a DOS prompt) generator /? or generator /h

How long does it take for the command (generator) to complete? If the shell command is still running then the .txt file won't be created until the command completes and thus would not be visible to the next line of code.

Dave, after reading through your messages, it sounds like the .exe file you are running is not running properly and therefore is not creating the .txt file. I have a couple of questions 1. What is in frmMain.txtMachineName immediately before you execute the shell command? 2. if you capture...

try http://www.vbaccelerator.com/codelib/zip/zip.htm

Does your dll reference other dlls not registered on your target machine?

Terry - Have you tried opening each form in notepad. You will see at the top any references the form uses other than std controls included with the VB runtimme libraries. If you have a lot of forms you could write a quick app that would read all .frm files and consolidate the info into some...

No such thing as a 'simple question' In VB Development environment, CLick Project/Components Scroll til you see 'Microsoft RichTextbox COntrol 6.0', check it and it will add rtb control to your toolbox. Then add it to a form like the standard textbox Don

CTRL-A works in the richtextbox. I don't know if if is a 'feature' for it to not work in the standard textbox, but I can't get it to work. I'm sure you could trap the CTRL-A char. sequence and build the code to select all. Let me know if this is the route you want to take and I will see if I...

Jo, Also check out the Visual Studio Installer. It has worked for me in the past although I still prefer Installshield. The VS Installer is included with VB (not sure which versions) and can be downloaded from MS at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/vsi11/download.aspx Hope...

Matt/Chip I too typically use the DTPicker with checkbox. However, when it is 'disabled' using the checkbox, the default date is still in there (ie if I create a dtpicker today, today's date is still there). Am I missing something or is there a way to make it blank when disabled? Thanks, Don

Steve, I found this from another post here on Tek-Tips check out this tool http://www.mztools.com/ Don

Excellent Bob! You should consider putting this into a FAQ! Don

Depending on your database - try: delete from staff where age = (select min (age) from staff) or delete from staff where age = (select minimum(age) from staff) This will deleta ALL records with the minimum age