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[VB6] Lickety - an alternative to Slurp'n'Split
We're in a time of PCs with vast amounts of RAM and little going on in the background, despite money being spent on multi-core CPUs. What was once considered a crude and naive practice of slurping...
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[VB6] Clipboard/DataObject Extension Class
The attached class extends VB's Clipboard and Data objects. Change its extension from .txt to .cls after downloading. 1) Support for dragging and pasting virtual files. Virtual files exist in Windows...
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VB6 Mercator-Projection (or - how to handle lots of small objects on a...
Just a small Demo, which demonstrates a Mapping for Latitude/Longitude based Coords into a Mercator-Projected MapImage (the Background-image of a VB-PictureBox). What's often preferred (in case one has...
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VB6 Render PDF-Files directly (and generate a Preview from the same...
Since the PDF-Printing-Topic comes up occasionally - sometimes with recommendations and links to VB-Modules which try to write a PDF-file directly - the PDF-support of the cairo-lib (wrapped...
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VB6 Regfree-Usage of your own VB- and other COM-Dlls per DirectCOM-Helper
Think, that this topic is an important one - and deserves its own article. Hmm, how to begin... Once there was a time, in the dark ages, long before "Manifestos" became available to human beings, that...
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WinpkFilter VB6 Samples
The WinpkFilter development kit no longer includes VB6 samples. Version 3.2.3 has added support for IPv6, resulting in a number of changes to the data formats. I have taken the liberty to update the...
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VB6 Handling of Alpha-Layered Windows with vbRichClient5
Since it was asked in another thread, if there is an easy way to deal with Layered-Windows in conjunction with the cairo-Drawing of the RC5.... Yes, of course there is - not provided by cairo itself,...
View ArticleSimple "Clone Stamp Tool" Demo
Put 2 PictureBoxes on your form. Make sure they both have these properties: Appearance = Flat AutoRedraw = True Border Style = None Picture = a picture that is small enough to fit in a picture box that...
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[VB6] Faster RTB Code Formatting
The scenario here is a program that allows user scripting in VBScript. This program needs a script IDE to make it easier for users to write, test, and modify their scripts. Instead of a simple text...
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VB6 how to capture Sound, using CoreAudio (Vista and onwards)
Here's a simple Demo, which is using the CoreAudio-Interface wrapper-classes of the vbRichClient5-framework, to select a Capture-Device - followed by entering "Stream-Capture-Mode". Whilst the...
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VB6 a simple wrapper for the VBA.Collection with (much) faster Indexed-Access
The title says it all - this is a simple Collection-Wrapper which can act as a compatible Replacement for the VBA.Collection - the fast Hash-Access of the VBA.Collection is used further - but all the...
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Tooltips, Balloon Tips, Tray Notofications [vbRichClient]
Here's a dll I've created that provides visually nicer and enhanced (functionality-wise) tooltips. It is dependent on Olaf's vbRichClient (the nice drawing comes via Cairo functionality) but is...
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VB6 - Packet Ananlyzer
PacketVB Version 2 is a Network Packet Analyzer. It utilizes Windows Packet Filter Kit 3.2.3 from NT Kernel Resources, which is available for download free of charge for personal use. This version of...
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VB6 create DDL-Schema-instructions from JET-MDBs (to apply to a new created...
As the title says - the Demo will show, how to create DDL-SQL-instructions from a given *.mdb-File, using two small Classes (cJETDDL and cJETDDLTable). The DDL is created for existing: -...
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VB6 - Math Utility: Clipping polygons including degenerate cases
This is an implementation of Kim & Kim's extension of the Greiner-Hormann's polygon clipping algorithm to include degenerate cases. Degenerate cases occur e.g. when a polygon's vertex lies on an...
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Using Line Input for Unicode (UTF-8 included), the fast way
For some days ago I was involved in the word count routines. I realize that a speed contest for some extra ms was not what we call productive. Productive can be a searching utility for those words. So...
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VB6 - DNS Monitor
DNS Monitor Version 2.5 is a DNS query capture and display utility. It utilizes Windows Packet Filter Kit 3.2.3 from NT Kernel Resources, which is available for download free of charge for personal...
View ArticleHow to add a System Tray icon to your program
This won't let you click (or double click) on the system tray (aka notification area) icon to restore your program from a minimized state. It won't let you right click on it to bring up a context menu...
View ArticleVB - Change color of font in ListView Row when highlighted
Hi, in the below script I have changed the font of the ListView row based on an expiration date. How can I keep the color of the font when the row is highlighted? For example, if my font is red for a...
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