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#VB Technical Questions
Message #3438
I have three technical questions for a charting component of an application: 1. is it possible to print text vertically i.e. rotate it by 90 degrees? 2. If I have a picture box which I have used methods to draw to, how can I copy the contents of the picture…
Tom, Thanks for the suggestion. We have a copy of the same product and we have definite plans for "borrowing" some of their ideas. Mark
#VBTools
Message #3434
Hello Mark, I have just read all the conversation about ordering a VBTools demo. As a newcomer in Visual Basic I am also interested in getting such a demo and some infos about your product. Please send it to: EDV- und Unternehmensentwicklung Georg Lohrer Hegaustrasse 7 D-7761 Moos 3 GERMANY…
Mark: Thanks again for the info. I'm going to make a pitch for another custom control that I would like to see (maybe it's already being planned for 2.0, but if not, well, here goes): I was a Turbo Pascal fan for a number of years (still am, actually). However,…
Ted, Well, that reset of ScaleMode to 0 may make sense for some objects, but not for the Printer. Typically, I want to set some margins with the Scale properties, but keep my own measurements that I'm using to send the text, etc, to the printer in inches, or points,…
Calling DOS!@#$%^
Message #3429
Mitchell, Wrong! Insert? Delete? I don't know how much simpler it can get, really. Combine them with a shifted key and you're home. If you want the other keystrokes, or whatever makes sense to you, most real Windows software lets you record a little tiny macro, so you can use…
Jonathan, Thank you for your reply, but who are E1Tech? Do you have a phone # or address? Thank You……Mike There is 1 Reply.
#Controls Development
Message #3427
I am confused as to whether the CDK stands alone or needs to be coupled with the SDK. I have VB here in the old-world and wonder what the CDK requirements are. Please advise. ttfn lester There is 1 Reply.
Hi Jon, I'm looking for a NETAPI call to identify available SQL servers on my LAN. Is it possible to be incorporated into my VB application? Will this work for Novell or LAN Manager? Thanks – Rob There is 1 Reply.
I agree that a binary .INI would be somewhat unwieldly, however, I like the ability to make an API call to change, add (if I only could!!!), or delete an item. Beats opening, searching, reading and writing an ASCII file… MS is definately gonna have to come up with a…
Don, Thanks for the details, I'll check it out. Tom Sollas [BDI]
Jonathan: But I thought that C 6.0 included QuickC? I have a copy sitting around in the shrink-wrap (anybody want C 6.0 cheap?) that I could open to check, but that's what I recall. There is 1 Reply.
Jerry: I don't know where you could get this, since MSJ is rare on the newstands. The Computer Library of your local University might have it. Give me your address and I'll send you a copy of the article.
#Searching Files Quickly
Message #3414
Sounds like another one of those wonderful 'learning curve !' 🙂 Yes, I would be extremely grateful for some more information !! The application is actually a corporate phone book. General Indexing is accomplished via indexes along the lines of : Type Record IndexText as String * 3:' First 3…
Harald, VBTools 2.0 is scheduled to be released in January. While we are currently on schedule, it's always possible to run into unforeseen delays though… Mark
George, When you change any of the ScaleLeft/Top/Width/Height, the ScaleMode will be set to 0 (User). This is normal and makes sense. If you change any of the settings, you're changing the way things are scaled. Even if you're not touching the scaling of values with ScaleHeight/Width and only change…
Thanks for the tips. I don't know if that's a perfect solution, but it's good advice. Paul
Have you scheduled VB Tools Release 2.0 yet? Harold There is 1 Reply.
Thanks for the solution Mark. I will also take a look a the new control. Thanks again.
Oh, yeah. I forget you can use all those neat Windows calls. (I program "Harvard Draw" for SPC during each morning, in C, under Windows.) But where would I put this PeekMessage call? It's not like the event loop is under VB control, right? Which VB subroutine gets called when…
Eric, Download BMPKIT over in Library 1 (New Uploads). It demos how to scale bitmaps, both to the screen and to the printer, using StretchBLT calls. George There is 1 Reply.
Keith, What seems to happen is that, since setting ScaleLeft, etc. changes the ScaleMode to 0 (USER), your careful CurrentX and CurrentY stuff doesn't necessarily work. I'm still not sure exactly what happens, and the manual isn't any help. I experimented with it for a long time, then abandoned the…
Costas, Not without help, it's not, at least for most users. George
Mitchel, Be careful using the IAC because you can't know if another program is using it too! –Ethan There is 1 Reply.
Mark and John, Oops. –Ethan
Will it let me create area charts with semi-log scaling and place several lines of text above and below the chart? Also, I would like to display the numeric values with commas. Thanks for your advice. -Jim There is 1 Reply.
I was not clear after a day of reading windows SDK programming guides… In 123w you select a field to link, then 123w give listboxes of (currently running) application names and Topics associated with those applications. So if I have a VB program running with FORM1 and FORM2 showing, :I…
Check the sample code in TP1015.EXE (the update to VBTIPS) on DL1. I think it chokes when you use the "Dec 30" format.
I am glad to see the addition of the scale control that you mentioned. I would also like to see Scatter charts include LINES as a possible style. This is most important in engineering applications. The last problem that I had dealt with multiple series of data. Since there is…
Larry, I am trying to understand your problem. I am currently printing line charts, scatterplots, and bar graphs, using standard VB print methods and a few API calls. Speed is reasonably fast (16Mhz 386), and resolution is the full 300 DPI on my postscript printer. I've even sent some of…
JZ: Thanks: I hadn't known the meaning of FixedCols before! Jack
Replying to Larry, Jim and Graham…. This is actually John Marsh of Bits Per Second – Graeme Knott is more an icon for us all rather than a real person! (actually, he does exist, but he is responsible for our DOS products rather than our Windows products). A major point…
VB and Charts
Message #3373
Replying to Larry, Jim and Graham…. This is actually John Marsh of Bits Per Second – Graeme Knott is more an icon for us all rather than a real person! (actually, he does exist, but he is responsible for our DOS products rather than our Windows products). A major point…
Hubert, there is a dBASE III+ (and partly dBASE IV) compatible toolbox for VB available – its name is db/VB and it comes from Marquis Computing. Further, this one is syntax compatible with db/LIB for QB/PDS from AJS. Since my company (Zoschke Data GmbH, Germany) is exclusive distributor for Marquis…
Jerry, The problem is that you cannot use .SetFocus until the form (and hence the control) is visible. There are two solutions to your situation: 1. Place a Show statement at the top of your Form_Load proc 2. Give the desired control a TabIndex of 0 – that will cause…
Victor, Thanks for the kind words about Muscle! Re your recursion problem — luckily the answer is very simple: Sub Tool_Click(Index As Integer) Static Active% ' Activity flag If Active% Then Exit Sub End If Active = True ' Do your chores here Active = False End Sub Mark P.S.…
Mitch, The source code to do what you want is in Muscle. The idea is to assign a Windows "selector" that corresponds with a real mode segment. The method used involves two interrupts (not API services) and therefore can't be done with straight VB code. Mark There is 1 Reply.
Tom, Thanks again for your kind words. The information I'm sending to you will tell you how you can get into our early access program for 2.0. Mark There is 1 Reply.
Proux, You data type must be a "standard or registered clipboard format." You are rarely going to transfer binary data via DDE. What is your specific application. Perhaps I can help you with a work-around. Is this data in memory or on disk? If it is on disk than text…
#DDE format
Message #3362
during a DDE communication I would like the server to send binary data (xxx. exe for example ); which format should I use ? CF_TXT doesn't seem appropria te . any ideas ? There is 1 Reply.
Mike, You can make use of your ISAM files from within *Visual* Basic, with the help of an add-on from ElTech called VBISAM. -=- Jonathan There is 1 Reply.
Soundex$ in TPW!
Message #3360
Greetings! There have been a number of questions regarding the creation of string functions for VB in C and TPW. For C programmers this requires the CDK and TPW programmers are SOL. However, a solution lies in the VBPOINT DLL that I uploaded last week. This DLL, although written to…
Jerry, Good luck. Keep me posted and let me know if there is anything I can do to help. -=- Jonathan
John, You can simulate INKEY$ under VB using the PeekMessage API call. This will allow you access to the scan code that you need here. -=Jonathan
Hi Paul, Ordinary VB ListBox Controls always automatically adjust their height so they don't chop the bottom off the last line in the box. This is what is causing your list boxes to get smaller and smaller as you flip back and forth between text sizes. But have you noticed…
Hi Ron, You bet. And it's just as easy as passing a variable. Call the subroutine using the control's CtlName, eg. Call PrintHello(Text1). The PrintHello routine would look like this. Sub PrintHello(TextBox As Control) TextBox.Text = "Hello" End Sub You can even pass a Form name. An additional feature of…
Hi George, Could I get a clarification on that please. When you say, "destroy", do you mean that the settings such as ScaleWidth, ScaleTop, etc, become undefined? I haven't experienced this problem. However, I haven't been using these properties on a printer object, only on a picture control. With regards…
Hi Graeme (and George Campbell), George, I don't believe that Graeme's overflow problem is due to VB changing the ScaleMode to User, but rather it is a bug in VB which was discovered and reported shortly after the VB forum opened. The bug can be created simply by using the…
Jack, I understood the question but I was a little crytic in my response. If you have FixedCols set to 1 (meaning that Col 0 is "locked") than you cannot select any cels in that column. Remember that selection, while providing the idea way to load/move data in the grid,…
#ISAM and Virtual Basic
Message #3352
Does anyone if it is possible to use my ISAM data files created with the Basic Professional Development System in Virtual Basic. I have alot of programs with very large data bases that I would like to rewrite with Virtual Basic. But it is not worth buying Virt. Basic if…
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