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[VB6] Undocumented API: SHLimitInputEditWithFlags - Easy input filtering
UNDOCUMENTED API: SHLimitInputEditWithFlags Easily apply category filters, paste handling, and automated tooltips to an edit control. Microsoft being Microsoft, they only begrudgingly documented a...
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Spectral Forecast equation for signals (VB6)
Intro This project uses my own mathematical model published in the Chaos journal. The model is called Spectral Forecast. The Spectral Forecast equation is a part of the Spectral Forecast model. The...
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Mix two signals by using Spectral Forecast in VB6
This project uses my own mathematical model published in the journal Chaos. The model is called Spectral Forecast. The Spectral Forecast equation is a part of the Spectral Forecast model and it was...
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Liquidity planner: new WebView2 demo application
Like last year's "Vacation Planner" (https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....light=webview2), the "Liquidity Planner" is a small but complete VB6 application whose GUI is entirely based on the Microsoft...
View ArticleSmall Collection of RC6 Helper Methods
In case they are of use to anyone else, I'm posting a few small RC6 helper methods that I use quite frequently alongside my RC6 apps. Nothing earth shaking here, but these methods can help reduce some...
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Micro chart in VB
This compact chart takes into account both positive and negative values from an input. Thus, this VB chart takes into account a lower bound as well as an upper bound. The lower bound represents the...
View ArticleFYI: Store many images as StdPicture without hitting the GDI objects limit
I recently had to store many images that are StdPicture objects. The problem is that each one create a new GDI object, and the (default) limit of max GDI objects is 1000. (It is set on the key...
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Helper functions to avoid running out of resources
A process has limited resources available. They can be of several kinds, here we cover GDI objects, RAM and Disk. If your program must be able to handle, or at least not to crash with huge amounts of...
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Binary files inside EXCEL VBA
This application converts any executable file to VBA source code that can be included as a '.bas' module in an EXCEL file. Once inserted into the EXCEL file, the VBA code can be used to completely...
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Binary metamorphosis
The VB6 applications shown here use the hexadecimal system to encode the binary content of an executable file. The point here is that one may compile an executable file that contains another executable...
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Array Information
Below is a follow-up for a discussion here on vbForums. Every array in VB is managed by VB through the use of a SFAEARRAY as defined here by Microsoft as part of Windows. Each array is assigned a...
View ArticleVB6 nestable UDT-based Node-Class with fast teardown
Not much to it, just a Demo for an UDT-based cNode-Class, which can be extended (by adding Fields to the Class-internal UDT). This Node-Class is "self-contained" (no extra-modules are needed)....
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[VB6] Event Tracing for Windows - Monitoring File Activity with ETW
VBEventTrace v1.0 Using Event Tracing for Windows in VB6 Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) is a notoriously complex and unfriendly API, but it's extremely powerful. It allows access to messages from the...
View ArticleWork with paths longer than MAX_PATH
Windows 10 allows to have paths > MAX_PATH (260 characters), but you'll have problems with VB and APIs. Here is a workaround: Code: Private Declare Function GetShortPathNameW Lib "kernel32" (ByVal...
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TextBox SpellCheck
It is a class module to apply a spell checker to a TextBox or RichTextBox, it does it through the SpellCheckerFactorys interface, it is available from Windows 8 and later. Although with some controls...
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VB6 ImageCaching and -Animation (using a single Resource-File for storage)
Just a Demo which applies the cGDIPlusCache-Class (as intended, as a Drop-In-Module). The original CodeBank-entry for cGDIPlusCache is here: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....-cls-revisited...
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[VB6] Crossword Puzzle Constructor
This is a program i threw together to generate crosswords based on a word/clue list. You can then print out the generated puzzle on a printer or solve it from within the program. For those that haven't...
View Article[VB6] CSharedMemory - class for dynamic memory allocation in shared memory
This class provides dynamic memory allocation in shared memory like in a heap. https://github.com/thetrik/CSharedMemory
View Article[VB6] CWaveFile - class for working with WAVE-PCM files.
Hello everyone. This is a class which allows to work with WAVE-PCM multichannel files (open/create/save). You can play the channels or mix them. https://github.com/thetrik/CWaveFile
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