Recent content by SirPaladin

I am trying to create a report that I can send to my printer. I've been trying without success to learn how to do this. The Microsoft help touches on various points, but doesn't tie it together. Most frustrating is it refering to the 'Print' method of the Printer object. This do not exist as far...

Is there a way to verify that a control array element exists before I use it? I ask because when I'm binding my controls to an ADO recordset, it would be easier if I could use a FOR NEXT loop, but I have to take into account that not necessarily every element has been used. For instance...

I'm a programmer in Visual Basic, C/C++, PERL, and others. But in this industry which is overinundated with acronyms and terms, I have never gotten a clear definition regarding what is meant by 'Embedded' software. Is it simply an application or functionality contained (embedded) within another...

I would have thought this would be simple, but I haven't found an easy way to launch a file with it's associated application (like would happen if you double-clicked the file in Windows Explorer). Give the complete path to a file, how do you 'execute' it? Right now I know how to launch a Word or...

I have no idea if your specific problem is being caused by this, but I have had code that worked perfectly in Access 97 inexplicably crash and burn when the database was converted to Access 2000. Bill Gates does not understand the term "Backward compatability" [go figure] and has a...

For example, I need to use SQL to select records of only a particular area code. My current SQL statement (to find a specific phone number. I'm concatonating several search parameters so SQLString already contains the "SELECT * FROM [Companies] WHERE [other parameters]) looks like this...

The e-mail example in the FAQ doesn't address the biggest problem I'm having with e-mail. It doesn't explain how to get feedback from your e-mail to know how it is progressing, or more importantly, when it is completed. Does anyone know?

How can you send e-mail via VB? It would be preferable to do so without opening Outlook (or any other app for that matter). I had experimented with the MAPI functionality, but the large drawback I got was that I received no feedback from it to tell me the progress it was making in sending the...

I realize this might sound like a really simple question, but I've had little luck trying to solve it so far. I'm trying to create a Global Update utility for an Access database, and I want the user to be able to dynamically select their desired Access table, and then from that table, their...

I've recently tried to make a program of mine a bit more stable by adding a lot Error handling throughout the code. However, now I'm sometimes (not always) getting "Out of Memory" errors where I didn't before (with only a couple of other apps open). I'm not sure if these are being...

The best of both worlds is to create a VB interface, and for your number crunching functions, tie in to C/C++ dll's. VB is so much easier to write. Literally, performing the same tasks in C/C++ can take 10 or more times as many lines to write.

I need to use SQL to perform a lookup, but I don't know how to format the search string if it includes a hyphen. For example, looking up the name "O'Neill" currently produces an error due to the hyphen. What's the work-around?

I have had some kind of file corruption that now prevents me from successfully loading (in development mode) any forms with SSTab or DBGrid controls. The log file created contains the following: Line 18: Class TabDlg.SSTab of control SSTab1 was not a loaded control class. Line 238: Class...

I want to open files using the application associated with their filename extension. For instance, if I have the complete path to a .doc file, I want to open that file in Word, or whatever application is associated with the file's extension. I have not been able to find what I need to do to...

Thanks for the suggestions. My question had been posted last year, and that contract went very well. Turned out that it is easy enough to teach yourself Framemaker even with only the original documentation that ships with it. The key to learning Framemaker is understanding master style sheets...