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Hey all, If I use the inet control to transfer information back and forth through an https connection, is this info secure? (As in scrambled) I want to connect to a website database script, pass a couple of "login codes" back and forth, then download the resulting file. Just need to...

Hey all, My first visit to the telephony forum. A while back I needed to write a small vb app that would among other things, simply send a fax. I managed to work it out using DDE to Winfax, but while trying to solve the fax issue I came across Tapi. So as usual I decided I had to know how to...

I'm sure this has been asked a million times but could not find it in a search so here goes. Your user installs version 1, you make version 2. How do you go about updating version 1 to version 2. Do you just install the package in the same location and will this overwrite the changed files...

Hi all, I've been trying to figure out how to find the path to a users default mail program, without knowing the app name. ie. Outlook, Netscape, or third party. Surely theres an API that would make this simple. All help is appreciated. Thanks

Hi all, Just have some questions regarding using MAPI controls and anti virus software. I was playing with some code from a microsoft book and wanted to try one of the sample apps which was an email app. As soon as I placed a MAPISession control on the form, Norton antivirus pops up and shuts...

Hey all, I need to create a small standalone spellchecker. I started with some old code I had but this required a reference to the MS Word 8.0 object library which I don't have. Can I find this library somewhere and download it without installing word? If so where? If not, does anyone know how...

Hey all, I have an app I want to start up when windows is started and looking for the proper way to approach it. Basically it will start in the background, check some details, then either shutdown or display a form. Some questions. 1. How to set it so it starts with windows? 2. Should I force it...

Hi all, I'm curious about how the windows tour guide works. You know, that annoying little guy that walks around on your desktop. Does anyone know of any sample code that I can download just to see how that is done? Thanks

Hey All, I'm trying to reference a flexgrid (generically) so I can edit some resize code. This doesnt work. If TypeOf Controls(i) Is MSHFlexGrid (or FlexGrid) (or Grid) If Controls(i) Is MSHFlexGrid etc Any Ideas? Thanks

Hi all, I'd would like to know the proper code to handle the enabled property for a control. I started to just put something like If(Enabled = False) Then Exit Sub In the controls initialize event but seemed like there must be more to it. Thanks

Hi All, I'm working on a module to send contents of RichTextBox to a printer using createDC API and haven't been able to figure how to set the printer font size. I'm sure there's probably a constant I can use. So I have 2 questions. First does anyone know how to set the printer fontsize and...

Hi all, I'm trying to get some code working to adjust form for screen resolution. I have everything worked out except fontsize. I started out trying to change the fontsize for each control but thats not going to be practical and won't help in the form title bar or MsgBox etc. So with all that in...

Heh All I've seen this question asked here before but I'm not sure if there was any answers. I created an app on 640 X 480 screen and while testing the install on other computers, happened to put it on a 1084 x 768 screen. This made my form look like a little checkbox, so what do you all do to...

Hi all, Hope everyone had a nice holiday. Well I managed to cobble my first package together and came up with a couple small problems. I'll just deal with one at a time. Install worked fine except when I clicked Start -> Programs -> Myprogram, It said the shortcut to the exe was wrong. It was...

Hi All, I was trying to find the easiest way to either not allow a $ sign to be entered in an input box, or to check for and strip this character out of the resulting variable. Thanks Grizz2

Hi all, I've just finished my first application and am looking for suggestions. While developing I didn't use any error handling because I wanted to have all bugs show up so they could be fixed. Now that I think(???) I have 99% percent of them fixed, I thought error statements should be added...

I want to load a text file into a grid type control. I don't think I can bind any of these controls to a text file type DB so I will probably have to load it using code. What would be the best control to use for this purpose? Thanks Grizz2

Well I've got another one for all you smart folks out there. I want to send a string from a file to the printer object. If the string is too long for 1 line, is there a way to make it wrap to another line instead of printing off the edge of the page? Thanks Grizz

Hi all, I'm trying to send a fax from my project and could use some proffessional advice. What I've done so far is compose a message with MAPI and it sends but gets returned as a nonfatal transient error. I set the number up like this faxname@[Fax:111 1111]. Does my email host need to have a fax...

Hi All, Great, I finally found an active forum. In my project a user can select an item to view online. This is not the complete code but gives the general idea. Dim frmB As New frmBrowser Then of course I open the browser when needed. frmB.Show I want to make sure that frmB hasn't already...