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avoiding -

how can i avoid an input from keyboard in an input box

in the key_down procedure i call a function that is linked to the ok button on the form

I use the enter from the keyboard for the key_down and the focus is on an input box

 

Avoiding Endless Loop -
Hey, I'm making a simple alarm clock for my computer, and can't seem to figure out how to avoid an endless loop. Label1 will be the current time formatted as "hh:mm, AM/PM" , and textbox1 will be the target time. If the two are equal I want to execute the alarm. Avoiding a lo

[2005] POST Files/Images to web pages -
Whats the best way of doing this? Idealy avoiding sockets. Thanks

Email Blast -
We are looking into ways to send several thousand emails out to our members. What are some good techniques / practices to avoiding spam filters?

Installing Win2k... -
Anything I should watch out for? I like avoiding other people's stupid mistakes.

Per cent (%)... should it be used at all -
I must say... I'm a bit pissed off about the use of percent. From my knowledge, per cent means 'of 100'. Now, at school, teachers would get us to work out the "percentage" of our test mark. This wouldn't be all that bad if our test was out of 100, but it was out of 80. Sa

Blinking label -
I have a label in my form, which I change the color modifying its fontcolor property every second with a timer control. The problem is that the label blinks. Is there any way of avoiding this to happen?? Thank you. Nauj

Avoiding piracy -
Hi Guys, I am in the process of developing a small software product using VB and MS-Access. I would like to know how to avoid piracy if I sell an executable version of my software. TIA. AK

Avoiding DataGrid Adding New Rows -
Hi All, Is there a way to avoid the DataGrid from adding new line in it. I managed to do it by doing the following: dg1.ReadOnly = True, but the problem in this the user will not be able to change any existing data in it. Thanks for the help.

mendhak's advice -
I took mendhak's advice a couple of weeks ago - removed all shower gel and other bathtime products from my bathroom and now listen to Classic fm in there in the mornings. On a different note, I've observed that people at work seem to be avoiding me these days.

How to -
interview for a technical writer??? I've been avoiding this particular task by saying that I am busy, and would rather focus on work. then they say i am the only person good enough to do the interviews. (Like they waited for me to come back from Japan :| ) I am not particularly

Avoiding mutiple instance of a form -
Dear friends, How can i avoid multiple instance of a form. If the form is loaded in the mdi then it should not load again when it is called How can i achieve this. Thanks

Remember this Mendhak -
FROGGER on the Spectrum (for oldies like me) : The idea of the game was to get the frog across the road avoiding being squished. How many poor frogs suffered in the development phase of this game.

[2005] Store and Retrieve Images w/ Stored Procedure -
Please help me how to store and retrieve images in a picture box avoiding creating a temporary image file. Thanks.

Why the api functions whait for a response -
i have a program that send some api functions to an external app but some times my app when it send an api function, it stop, waiting something from the other app. is there a way to avoiding that? telling the api function to not wait or something like that?

Form Activated Event -
Hi, I suppose it is obvious but I've only just noticed that when a messageBox is closed, it fires the Activated Event of the form which it was called. Is there any way of avoiding this, please?

How to resize a TextBox -
Hi, I'm in trouble trying to resize a TextBox. Is it possible to get the size of the Font and then resize the TextBox (increasing or decreasing), avoiding the text to be hidden by the borders? Thanks for any help... Michel Jr.

Happy Birthday Alacritous -
You are probably avoiding us. Well Happy Birthday anyway!

Creating a new folder through a macro -
Hi All I'm trying to create a new folder in order to save new workbooks using VBA and avoiding user intervention. I have tried to use the CreateFolder method but I need an object to precede the method. I've tried using Application.CreateFolder without success and nothing else

avoiding -
how can i avoid an input from keyboard in an input box in the key_down procedure i call a function that is linked to the ok button on the form I use the enter from the keyboard for the key_down and the focus is on an input box

Avoiding duplicate names -
I have been using a variable name as local in a procedure, unaware that I had previously used that same name as a global variable in my project. This has kind of been producing funny results until I noticed the reason why it happened. Is there a statement whereby conflicting duplica

Combobox inside Datagrid -
Could somebody help me with this stuff. I want to insert a combobox control in my data grid connecting to a look-up table. I just learned that only boolcolumn and textboxcolumn are present in datagrid control? As much as possible I'm avoiding third party components especially if it

Avoiding multiple setup -
Hello I have created setup using packaging & deployment. If I install multiple installation, setup is creating setup1, setup2 like that. how to avoid this? If the user is running the setup more than once, it should overwrite the previous installation..Is it possible? Is th

[2.0] Determine CD Drive Letter -
I need to prompt my users to insert a CD. How do I determine what drive letters are CD-ROMs, so I can check for the disc? It is very concievable that they will not know their drive letter or I'd just ask them for it. I am also avoiding opening up a drive navigator for them to pi

[2008] Avoiding the requirement of .net framework -
Hi! I was thinking, i get a lots of errors with my application because users doesn't have the .Net Framework installed so i was thinking, can't i take every .net framework resource that my application uses and needs, and add it as a reference in my application so that the user does no

Avoiding a postback when a checkbox is checked -
I have four checkboxes with four corresponding textboxes on my webpage (asp.net 2.0). When the user checks a box, I want to enable the corresponding textbox for data entry and when he unchecks it, disable the textbox. I have accomplished this in my vb code-behind, but I'd like to el

[2005] Certain Keypresses -
Good Evening everyone, There is something I have been avoiding a long time and never worked out how to do it becuase I do like to try and learn things myself by experimenting but I can't do this, its prob most simple as well. How do you detect when certain keys are pressed, like

Hotfixes & Planned Releases -
Hi Folks, No matter how planned a software release is why is followed by patches / fixes? One way of avoiding seems to be keeping the software in beta for a very long time and keep on innovating it. This might be possible perhaps for a company like google, but when it comes to small s

[2005] tableAdapter and/or dataAdapter Questions -
I am about to commence coding (actually recoding) on a project that accesses 100 tables of a database, more to added at later time. About half of the accesses are queries with joins and unions. I am more of a coder to not use wizards such tableAdapter, but code more by other methods. I

how to use both "." and "," as signs(operators) for decimal numbers -
in the textboxes of my form,the project accepts as decimal sign the comma ",". what's the code to make it work with both "," and "." ? that way, i am avoiding error messages and unsufficiencies in the calculations that my form does.

Avoiding splash window of an application -
Can you suggest a way to avoid the splash window of outlook called from an VB progam. or can it be made invisible How to handle the errors of outlook that occur during run time through VB code. i.e. " unable to connect to server" an error that occurs when the mail server

Other way of avoiding screen updating -
Hey, I have this macro in which a multiple of cells are copied and pasted between diffrent worksheets. The application.screenupdating=false does not help me here, is there a way of "freezing" the screen, so I don't have to watch it flicker between the worksheets whilst the m

Needs Desperate Advice -
I am 16 years old and I have a huge problem. My older brother, who is 26 years old and lives with his girlfriend, dumped the responsibilty of his dog on me. He visits his dog less than 3 hours a day, and the dog is being neglected by his abscense. I do not mind taking care of her, but

Software Remote Control -
Right...I want to be able to control Winamp on my main PC from another PC, but don't want to use VNC as my main PC will be playing games at the time and VNC would slow it down too much. I basically want to have my laptop sitting beside me when I'm playing games and change the music

avoiding thread collisions -
I want to display a message box while a thread is still live (if it ever lives, but that works), i tried putting into a while t.isalive messagebox.show("updating information", "updating",,messageboxicon.hand) end while and it claims that overload res

Avoiding saving configuration -
This is not a VB question... but this is driving me mad. I can't understand why it doesn't work now, since I did it once (and it work). I'm trying to change all the shell folders paths of an user (in the registry). But when I log off the user, the system saves the configuration and

VB & VBscript -
Hi, I have some vbscript code that I launch from a vb platform. The script produces some results when ran with the use of Wscript.Echo which produces message box like responses. How can I retrieve information from a script unto my vb platform hence avoiding the use of Wscript.Echo

Avoiding "click-through" -
I have a picture box and the picture has hotspots by checking cursor position in the mousedown event. Some clicks bring up another picture with hotspots so a double click on 1st picture becomes an unwanted click on 2nd. This is a program for young children, so no point telling them

From byte[] to string or char[] -
How can I do to convert a byte[] array into a char[] array or a string avoiding loops for each byte? Thank you!

avoiding variables in address bar -
i am using this code to transfer variables varId and varCost to next page. is there any way i can hide the entire URl from appearing in the address bar of next page ? onClick="Javascript:window.location='page2.asp?action=checkout&itemId=<% =varId %>&itemprice=&l

[02/03] Business objects compiled at runtime -
Hi I'm working on a web application and for some reason I'me avoiding the usage of VS.NET which compiles the app into a DLL. I've seen tips about how to use the <% @Page Inherits="mypage" Src="myPage.aspx.vb" %> I've written a seperate Employee.cs class