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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
View ArticleReDimPreserve Two dimension array
Code: Public Sub ReDimPreserve(arrPreserve, ByVal end_row2&, ByVal end_col2&, Optional ByVal start_row2, Optional ByVal start_col2) 'funtion: to break the limitation that ReDim Preserve cannot...
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Shagratt's VB6 IDE AddIns collection (Latest versions)
Hi Guys! I dont have plans to keep working on them so I'm releasing all my work on VB6 IDE Addins as a collection. They are all stable and I use all of them daily for my projects. AddIns included are...
View ArticleCreate Access 97 database with VB6
I would like to create an Access 97 database with VB6. Have gotten my code to work one time. But VB6 shut down before code was saved, and have been unable to recreate it. I am running Windows 10 and...
View ArticleSimpleSock Update
If you use SimpleSock or SimpleServer, I have found a more efficient and faster way to receive sockets when using a fixed record header. TLS 1.3 encrypted records for example use a fixed 5 byte header....
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Add scroll bars to VB-Forms, PictureBoxes and UserControls
Steve McMahon (www.vbAccelerator.com) provides a Scrollbar class which can add scroll bars to VB-Forms, PictureBoxes and UserControls. But the subclass (SSUBTMR.DLL) used by this class is not IDE-Safe....
View ArticleEnvironment variable dumper
Put this code into Form1 of your project and run it. It will put automatically save a file called EnvironmentVariables.txt and then close. This text file contains the environment variables and their...
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ucCalendar (Events calendar)
Hi, I want to share my last user control of a calendar of events, I will not be able to upload the control here since within the example I use two dll to link the calendar to a database with SQLite, so...
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Export/Import Variables, Properties & UDT's for VB6 & VBA
This system enables you to bundle data from a program into a highly compact binary array that can be sent to other programs, saved to disk, re-used within a program, etc. It works in 32- and 64-bit VBA...
View ArticleLuhn checksum algorithm
This allows you to calculate the Luhn checksum for a string of decimal digits, as well as to validate that checksum. Here's the code. Code: Public Function Luhn(ByVal DecimalString As String) As Byte...
View ArticleVisual Basic IDE dependencies
Good afternoon guys I happen to be playing with Visual Basic and I have several third party applications written in this language that I think have downgraded the versions of some system files. When...
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