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Hi I am fairly new to Dex. I am trying to walk through the values on the Sales Transaction Entry. I need to calculate the weight of each item (based on quantity) to do some funky calculations on freight. How would I walk through the items in the scroll window and get each item number and...

I am running IIS 5.1 on a Windows XP machine. I do not understand why, but any time I try to start iis, I recieve an error stating The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. Any ideas on why this is happening or how I can get my service started??? Thank...

Hi all! I have a need to switch back and forth between a printer and a fax printer within my code. I tried: Printer.DeviceName = "pirnter, etc" When I compile, I get an improper use of property. Is there a way in which I can switch printers with in my vb code? Thanks in advance...

Howdy all, I am just wondering. I have an application with a print preview function which only allows for a maximized screen. I created the app with 1024 x 768 resolution, however, I need it to resize for 600 x 800 automatically, otherwise a good portion of the form does not appear. Do I...

Howdy, I am wondering if this is even a possibility. I am trying to print invoices into a Word Doc from VB. I have a config file that holds the location on the page and font characteristics to print a string and a data file which holds the string. I am writing to a picbox with the Print...

Hi all, I am writing a set up script to copy dll files to the windows\system32 or windows\system based on the most current version. Is there a reason to use one path over the other? Why are both there? Thank you in advance for responses. tommy

Hi all, I am trying to print invoices from a vb application, however, my scales seem to change from printer to printer. Is there a way to force the scale to be the same no matter what printer I print the form to? Thanks in advance! Tom

Hi all, silly question but I can't seem to find the answer, using: t() = Split(string, "|") How can I find the max items returned in t()?

Hi all, I'm new to the whole printing output to the printer in VB. I need to print a standard invoice form. I tried to scan the form to a pic file and use it to place my variable strings. However, the picture is in a one-to-one ratio and doesn't fit correctly onto the form. I haven't...

I need to find a way to close an outside window, when the process is complete from within a VB application. I am opening the program with AppActivate. And I need to close it when the backup process is finished. The program is "MS Backup". Is this possible? Thanks for any help!!! Tommy

Hi all, I am wondering how I would save the last form position and size, so that the end user can adjust the app window and reopen it in the same position. Thanks for any advice and help! Tommy19

Howdy, I am wondering if the is a way, when you read the incoming data from a winsock connection, to automatically use the senddata function, when a particular string is present. ie, I want my program to automatically loginto a unix box via winsock, If I senddata, immediately, then the...

Howdy all, I have a problem and can't seem to find a solution other than pulling the network plug and I would like another altenative. I have tried making the file read only, but that did't work either. I need to be able to kill the program accross the network for any user with that app...

Hi all, just a quick question... I need to kill a Visual Basic program that is running on several machines. How would I go about doing that? I am new to networking and don't really even have a clue. Thanks all tommy

Howdy, I have a program that needs to scroll through a picbox which I have Picture1.Print etc forming the output. I have it working but for some reason after I scroll down What scolls off the screen disappears. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Does the picture need to be a...

Hi there, I'm pretty sure there is a way to do this, but I can't remember how and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. ok, my output is a collection of strings, each string has individual parts that are different lengths, ie a company name is one section of the string, there are 5...

Hi all, I can't seem to understand what is going on here. I just upgraded to CR 8.0. I create a report with subreports of SQL queries and the report will run and refresh, but if I save it, close it and re-open it, when I try to run the report or refresh the data, I get a message that says...

Hi all, this might be a silly question but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. In Crystal 7, there is a util. to distribute a report from one machine to another. I can't seem to find it in Crystal 8. I recently upgraded, and am tending to think that this utility was dropped. Does anyone...

Howdy, I have a little dilemma... I need to update a field in one table that doesn't exist in another linked table. For example, There is a call back on field in a contact table, and scheduled calls in the other. There are records in the contact database that have a callbackon date but no...

Hey, On an error that doesn't allow you to connect to a database, what does the message invalid handle number mean? Thanks tommy19