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I tried it and it works great. The first time I call the vb module, there seems to be some delay (loading time?). Every other consecutive call responds instantly. You've been a great help. Guido

That's a valid point ... but I'm trying NOT to convert . I was planning to run this in a WIN98 environment. However, I found an activex driver that may work in vfp6 (I know, another forum) and eliminate my problem to begin with. I just don't know Guido

continuation: This is what I already know: VFP2.6 is a 16 bit application, so logically I should use vb4 16 bit version, right? Then there's something called DDE? Is that the mechanism to use? how? Thanks for any input Guido

Hello. I read a response recently where "nigelgomm" describes running a VB app in the background to solve a problem identifying the OS and pssing the result to VFP 2.6 My question is: How is this done? I have a major task ahead of me and was about the translate many thousands of...

Is there something special about your LEDS? Last time I looked you can find some under 2 cents each, and resistors are about the same price.

Hi. I think I ran into this once. Something about the limit of 256 objects, if I remember correctly. I solved this by making "arrays" of controls, command buttons and labels which you access by subscript. Hope this helps. Guido

Try this. Private Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _ (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long Dim sndSound As String Const SND_ALIAS = &H10000 Const SND_ASYNC = &H1 Const SND_FILENAME = &H20000 Const SND_LOOP = &H8...

Yes there IS a patch for this - It affects AMD systems Athelon & Duron and shows up after installing SP2. I ran across this this morning... it is actually a registry change that makes everything go back to normal. Apparently it has to do with the Miniport interrupt for AGP video cards...

I've done exactly this with Norton Ghost PE. I used to use Powerquest Drivecopy but they require you to use a new version of their software that supports Windows 2K Server which is very expensive. Powerquest's partition magic is also useful to extend existing NTFS partitions. Hope this...