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system: You are Francois Roy, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "More VB5 findings".

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assistant: I tried the Setup Wizard for VB5 on one of my VB4 projects today, and found
out a couple more things that might be of interest to some of you.
For one thing, the SETUP.EXE "bootstrap" setup routine (yes, the concept of
SETUP.EXE calling SETUP1.EXE is still present) cannot run on less than NT
3.51 with service pack 5 (Win95 "B" and NT4.0 with service pack 2 are OK),
and, on the NT3.51 machine, it insists on updating some of the OLE-related
system files before proceeding with the installation.
It also insists on making an entry in the registry for your application,
however simple it may be, and, to uninstall it, you are expected to use the
"Add/Remove Programs" applet in the Win95 control panel.
The other thing is that some of your OCX's you now use with VB4 will confuse
the Setup Wizard, as it needs a .DEP (dependencies) file for each OCX you
use, in order to determine the files that are needed as part of the install
kit.
I use the extended Graph control from Pinnacle/BPS and FarPoint's Spread 2.5
OCX, and as of today, they don't have .DEP files ready, although both have
indicated that "they are working on it".  This may not be a problem if your
OCX doesn't need files other than itself in order to run properly.
One other thing I noticed: Microsoft dropped the Graph control from the VB
offering, preferring instead to include the "MS Chart Control", which will
not work for you unless your data comes from a database and you bind the
control to it (this is why I am sticking with the Pinnacle Graph control).
system: You are Stephanie Bares, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "VB DLL".

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assistant: I am looking for a list that could give me common dll for VB 4 and Windows
5.
Do you know where I can find it ? Or maybe have you got one ?
Please let a message here or email to stephb@imaginet.fr
Thank you.
system: You are Dik Coates, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bucky Carr about "TYPED CALL".

They wrote:
>>>> QUOTING Bucky Carr to Dik Coates <<<<
DC> my ears around VB... but getting there...  I recall with QuickBASIC
DC> 1.0, calling Microsoft's help line... and the helper at the other end
DC> wondered why I would ever want to capture the command line!
BC> It takes a lot of self-control to give up paternalism.

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assistant: Thought it was a really stupid reply at the time... and still do... since
then, I've aquired their MS Fortran, Visual C2.5, C6.0, and Basic PDS...
I never seem to learn... Generally use the non-MS products, except for
VB... just starting to really like it... (except when it doesn't do
what it should<G>)... occasionally crack out my Borland Prolog... for
novelty and one a month or so... my Borland C++... which I think is
excellent...
and VB has completely done away with my CA Realizer...
Regards Dik
... "I'm French!  Why do you think I have this outrageous accent?"
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system: You are Eileen Louise, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Brandon Pen about "Where can I get it?".

They wrote:
BP> How can I reach Microsoft so I can download it from them?

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assistant: on the web at www.microsoft.com
try their bbs at 206-936-6735.  the bbs doesn't have everything.
i'd like to be more helpful, but i have no clue what you are looking for.
system: You are Eileen Louise, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bucky Carr about "Campos".

They wrote:
BC> I think he is confused the way I was when I first started in on
BC> database work that wasn't created by me (via random files - lots
BC> of them). PROISAM is one of the utilities that comes with PDS
BC> (MSBASIC v7.1) for use with the database system that MS simply

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assistant: ahh, that explains it.  i dont' do any dos basic, and haven't since gw basic
2 ...
system: You are Eileen Louise, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Vinicius Costa about "Ansi".

They wrote:
VC>     Ya haven't understood me ... My ANSI driver is loaded, I can
VC> see    ANSIS, but I wanted a program that shows them like slides,
VC> for    a Welcome screen in my BBS.

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assistant: Hi Vinicius,
     Vinicius Costa to Brian Schwartz on Monday March 17 1997
you want TheDraw.  you can find it on most bbses.
system: You are Eileen Louise, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Force about "multiple recordsets on one form".

They wrote:
MF> I'm new to VB and am trying to figure out how to use one recordset
MF> in text boxes and a second one in a dbGrid.  Both tables are
MF> related.  I want both to iterate as I change records (ie. PO
MF> number from table1 and a list of names associated with that PO
MF> number in the dbGrid.  Any help you can offer would be greatly
MF> appreciated as I have searched everywhere to find the answer to no
MF> avail. Thanks Mike

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assistant: Hi Mike,
     Mike Force to All on Sunday March 16 1997
you really should consider defining a query to associate this before you load
it into your form.  it would be terribly slow the other way.
build the query.  use the query to fill your text boxes and grids. everything
will be smooth and simple.
system: You are Eileen Louise, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eduardo Freire about "Run VB4 in network".

They wrote:
EF> I need run VB4 in Novell Netware 3.12 LAN in my corporation.
EF> How can I do it.

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assistant: Hi Eduardo,
     Eduardo Freire to All on Tuesday March 18 1997
VB4 runs fine from a file server.  You (of course) need to be running Win95
in addition to Novell.  all of the usual novell access and security rules
apply of course, but i'm skipping that.
have the administrator install VB onto a server.
for each licensed workstation:
run the installation and install to the same relative path as the
administrator installed.
this will place all the required system files on the local hard drive, and
point to the correct server location for the remaining files.
system: You are Eileen Louise, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Creamer about "Kill "0" files".

They wrote:
JC> Anyone have a way of going through a directory and deleting all
JC> files that are found to be "0" byte files?

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assistant: Hi John,
     John Creamer to All on Tuesday March 18 1997
got 4dos?  del /s /[s0,0] . /y
don't got 4dos?  use explorer.  sort on size and display details. select them
all and delete.
system: You are Eileen Louise, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Sonnenberg about "multiple recordsets on one form".

They wrote:
GS>  I'm a little confused. Is this what you want...?
GS>  To put the same record in both a set of text boxes and in a grid?
GS> The fields that make up the record would each go in a different
GS> text box and also in their own columns in the grid?
GS>  And both the text boxes and the grid should change to the same
GS> new record as you move through a recordset?

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assistant: Hi Gary,
     Gary Sonnenberg to Mike Force on Thursday March 20 1997
i think what he's looking for is to put one side of a query in a text box
array and the other side in a grid.  he doesn't realize that though -- yet.
like to put an order number, name, date etc in text boxes and then look up
the items on the order and put all of the information about them (beyond just
the part numbe rand sell prices in the original table) in a corresponding
grid.
or something like that.
system: You are Mike Meyer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Sameer Tawakkol about "PLAYING WAV OR MIDI FILES".

They wrote:
> I am working on a project with visual fox pro and during the program I
> need to call a program that can play a .wav or .mid files.  up to here
> there is no problem.   what I need is a program that can play the .wav
> or .mid file and then close and return the control to the fox pro program.
> Can any body recommend for me a program that can do that (shareware or
> freeware).  please note that the program will be executed from fox pro and
> the file name will be as parameter included in the execution command.

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assistant: Hmm, I have both a program that can play WAV files invisibly in the
background, but I also have the code to play both WAV & MID files in VB.
Which do you want?
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Mike Meyer
EMail - mike.meyer@tznet.com
Twilight Zone BBS
-- Auburndale, WI       -- telnet tznet.com [206.31.5.1]
-- 1-715-652-2758       -- VOICE ASSIST:  1-715-652-3175
-- FidoNet - 1:238/300     (9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Central)
system: You are Mike Meyer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Day of Week".

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assistant: Argh!  Every time I post a program, the line feeds get messed up!  But I'll
do what I have to do:  double-line-feeding (it's messy but it works)  Enjoy
this version of WEEKDAY (it's pretty self-explanatory) :)
Sub Form_Load ()
' Day of Week
' Asks for a date, then outputs what day of the week it
' fell upon, from Jan. 1, 100 to Dec. 31, 9999
' By Mike Meyer 3/16/97
Dim Date1$, Date2$        'Declare varaibles as String
Date1 = InputBox("Enter a date:") 'Get input from user
If Date1 <> "" Then       'If something was entered:
  'Format the date (ex. "March 10, 1977 is a Thursday.")
  Date2 = Format$(Date1, "mmmm d, yyyy i\s \a dddd.")
  If Date1 = Date2 Then   'If the strings match:
                          'Display error message
    MsgBox "Invalid date!", 48, "Day of Week"
                          'If not, display the output
    Else MsgBox Date2, , "Day of Week"
  End If
End If
End                       'End of program
End Sub
system: You are Michele Mauro, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to TIMOTHY DUEHRING (Rcvd) about "mousies".

They wrote:
TD>     I remember a thread awhile back about your troubles with a
TD> mouse.  Thought I would let you know that Kensington has come up
TD> with a new one called Orbit.  The trackball is located in the middle
TD> with buttons on ether side.  Looks to be more usable to lefties.
TD> Approximate cost is $60.  Check it out at www.kensington.com.

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assistant: Thanks for the info... I'm using a trackball now, but it's over 6 years old
and I don't know how much longer it will last - I've been looking for a
suitable (reasonably priced) replacement.
Have fun, Michele
Internet: chaos@ao.net                           FIDO: 1:363/340
 * I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
   RoseReader 2.52T P001948 Entered at [COMPLICATIONS]
system: You are Kurt J. Tischer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Meyer about "Day of Week".

They wrote:
MM>Someone (not in this echo) asked me to write a small program for them to
MM>determine what day of the week a certain date fell on.  I have forgotten

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assistant: Why not just use the "Day" function which returns a number 1
to 7 when given a date argument...
 * SLMR 2.1a * I am NOT a complete idiot... Several parts are missing!
system: You are Kurt J. Tischer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Abdullah Alhemaidy about "Error msg".

They wrote:
AA>Hello..,
AA>       When VB give the following message what dose it mean how to
AA>solve the problem. Thanks and have a nice day.
AA>  ERROR Updating Filed
AA>  VB : no current record

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assistant: First, Error updating field means that you have probably passed
the wrong kind of data to a field.  For instance if the field in
question is a numeric field and you have tried to feed it a string.
        No Current Record means that there is no currently active
record.  You must use the AddNew, or one of the Move methods to make a
record current. For example:  Data1.Recordset.AddNew would create a new
blank record and make it current.  Data1.Recordset.MovePrevious would
move to the previous record and make that one current.
 * SLMR 2.1a * If it works, don't fix it.
system: You are Kurt J. Tischer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dik Coates about "Information Needed".

They wrote:
DC>When I toggle the dimensions to Imperial, the child form label objects
DC>are not converted.
DC>Can anyone offer suggestions on how to update the form when you make it
DC>visible?

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assistant: Hmmm...  Sounds like you need to make reference to the child
form by using the ActiveForm reserved word.
 * SLMR 2.1a * paranoid dyslexic agnostic wonder if dogs watching him.
system: You are Chris Reiche, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Sonnenberg about "Re: Waves".

They wrote:
GS>  If you're looking for a preset numbers of times, try a For-Next loop
GS> or a  Do loop.

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assistant: *** Quoting Gary Sonnenberg from a message to Chris Reiche ***
I tried that, it just wouldn't play then.
GReeN LaNTeRN [JL]
system: You are Dik Coates, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rouxel Charbonneau about "data".

They wrote:
>>>> QUOTING Rouxel Charbonneau to Dik Coates <<<<
DC> Programming in BASIC, of course... it was a full language compiler...
DC> and had a subset called QBX which is a superset of QuickBASIC...
RC> Thanks, I didn't think there was a professionnal version of basic, I
RC> thought it was pretty useless for programming big applications.

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assistant: Not at all... I've got several programs with over a meg in source code...
and little of it is comment... Many people don't know that BASIC was
a 'real' programming language... and what I couldn't do in it... I could
do in ASM and link the object files... I've written routines that will
do smooth scrolling by dikkin' around with the CRTC registers... Nope,
it was a real language... Most of my stuff is mathematically based,
and the library PDS used was the same on MS shipped with their Fortran
compiler... fast and good... Now, if it only had the ability to create
.DLL's like PowerBASIC can...
Regards Dik
... Jean Chretien-- A good reason for neutering Liberals.
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system: You are Dik Coates, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Sonnenberg about "Information Needed".

They wrote:
>>>> QUOTING Gary Sonnenberg to Dik Coates <<<<
DC> Can anyone offer suggestions on how to update the form when you make
DC> it visible?
GS> How about a Global Boolean that gets checked when a child loads?

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assistant: Got that already... as IsImperial and IsMetric integers... (Boolean, for
some reason takes up 2 bytes (same as Integer)) so I'm more used to using
integers for switches...
I want calling the child form to trigger the actual change to the labels
in the child.  In this way, I can keep all the (child) form related stuff
totally contained within the (child) forms.  I've tried using form_load,
gotfocus, lostfocus, etc... .Refresh, and a couple of others... but,
nothing forces the update...
The labels, BTW are a control array...
Any other suggestions?
Regards Dik
... The early worm has a death wish.
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system: You are Dik Coates, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Francois Roy about "VB 5.0 and filesizes".

They wrote:
>>>> QUOTING Francois Roy to Niels Schoot <<<<
FR> code" takes forever: my  larger projects take several seconds under VB4
FR> to make an .EXE; with VB5, it  takes about a minute and a half (and
FR> that is on a P200).  I haven't tried to  compile to p-code yet, so I
Re<g>ards Dik

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assistant: So... what are the files and times for a simple label "Hello World", like?
BTW, did you catch my querie about changing data on Child forms?
... If his IQ was two points higher he'd be a Rock!
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system: You are Reinhardt Mueller, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bucky Carr about "difference from quickbasic visual basic".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Bucky Carr to Reinhardt Mueller <=-
RM> Knowing QB (my first compiled language) is a big help as far as lot
RM> of the language goes, but the event-driven paradigm of VB often
RM> leaves me kicking and screaming.
BC> Why?  I rather like the event-driven nature of it all.
RM> You know you're getting old when you remember that TYPE's
RM> in QB and VB evolved from the FIELD statement in older
RM> versions of Microsoft BASIC..
BC> It sure is more robust now.  FIELD was very cumbersome.  TYPE a good
BC> improvement.

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assistant: IF you only have to eeal with buttons on the screen it's easy.
The problem is changing your mind-set after YEARS of being
used to polling for keyboard and comm-port activity.
You CAN'T go directly to the hardware anymore like in
DOS-based programs.
Things will get "interesting" when I have to learn to deal with
things like the serial port in VB.
I like the Visual part of being able to design your windows (forms),
but I do wish that programmers would quit setting Appearance propery
in forms to 3-D.  Doing that causes VB to use gray all the time -- even
if the user changes the Windows colors!    I personally prefer
Windows to run with light (WHITE) letters on a BLACK background.
In the lab I run Windows with the High-contrast Black setting.
Wallpaper?  NONE!
What idiot thought of making a computer screen look exactly like
a piece of paper?   I never heard so many people complain of
eyestrain until the local community college started running
Windows 95 on the lab machines!   I love the DOS programs that
have their own color installation routines.   More major Windows
programs should have this too.
It was a dirty way to lay variables on top of each other....
if you wanted to look at a variable in 2 or more different ways...
It was like free unions in C or untagged variant records in Pascal.
Problem was that you had to use a disk file buffer and had to
be running Disk BASIC (TRS-80) because cassette BASIC (or LEVEL II
BASIC on TRS-80's) didn't support the FIELD statement.
... Donald Duck programs in QuackBASIC!
system: You are Jim Broadbent, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rob Strover about "Re: DLL's".

They wrote:
RS> I have found some VB code for a card game [Internet Fantan] which uses
RS> the CARDS.DLL and it contains, among other code, a .BAS file with
RS> relevant declarations, constants, etc. required to use this DLL. The
RS> code was one of the samples from Catalyst Software in a demo pack for
RS> their SocketTools Internet Controls package downloaded from the
RS> Internet (URL is www.catalyst.com).

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assistant: Hi Rob,
Thanks but I have created my own set of cards now. I discovered how to use
Picture Clip since I have the professional version of VB4.0
I haven't used it yet but it seems simple enough. All of the cards are
created in one bitmap and you have it divided into cells of equal pixel
height and widths...then they can be called randomly by cell.
I will be doing this later in the week so will let you know how it goes.
Regards Jim
system: You are Jim Broadbent, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Kirkwood Jones about "bullet-proof problem".

They wrote:
KJ>         You are correct.  I was suggesting eliminating the comma
KJ> altogether.  Obviously not the solution you wanted.  I do this kind of
KJ> stuff every day and since there are always 2
KJ> decimal places in the data,
KJ> we strip out everything but the digits themselves
KJ> for processing 'behind
KJ> the scenes'.  Sorry I didn't have something you could use...   KJ

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assistant: Hi Kirkwood;
No Problem....I just wonder about your approach. <repeating myself> when
numeric data is entered by someone who uses commas I doubt that they would
place them randomly by choice. Therefore a miss placed comma would probably
be due to hitting a keystroke too lightly to be registered by the
computer....hence a number is entered incorrectly. (ie. 1,23.00 might be
1,523.00)
Stripping out the commas would yield 123.00 instead of the proper 1523.00
value.
Wouldn't the check for a misplaced comma prevent such keyboarding errors??
and hence make the data entry more reliable? Would seem so to me.
Regards Jim
system: You are Gary Sonnenberg, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Visual Basic message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dik Coates about "Information Needed".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting DIK COATES to GARY SONNENBERG <=-
DC> I want calling the child form to trigger the actual change to the
DC> labels in the child.  In this way, I can keep all the (child) form
DC> related stuff totally contained within the (child) forms.  I've tried
DC> using form_load, gotfocus, lostfocus, etc... .Refresh, and a couple of
DC> others... but, nothing forces the update...
DC> The labels, BTW are a control array...

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assistant: Hi Dik,
 Have you tried Form_Activate?
 What code are you using to make the change? something like...
 If IsMetric Then
     lblMeasurement(1) = ProperLabel
     'And so on
 Else
     lblMeasurement(1) = OtherLabel
 End If
 or a Select Case setup?
 Gary
... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done.