[VB6] FYI: a better `Property Timer As Single`
`Timer` global property comes handy for measuring elapsed time or for logging time-stamps. It basically returns number of seconds since midnight with 2 digits precision. Usually to measure elapsed...
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[VB6] High Quality Multimodal Printing
This is a refinement of a .BAS module I answered a question thread with. Basically the module has some helper functions for printing. These let you print in a non-WYSIWYG manner in a sort of "desktop...
View ArticleSimple Delay Sub
Below is some code that enables you to delay execution for a specified number of milliseconds. It uses DoEvents and Sleep to minimize the CPU load when waiting for the specified time. This runs in...
View ArticleMsgBox replacement with Optional Timeout
The code below is a replacement for MsgBox that is Unicode, runs on VB5/VB6 and all versions of VBA including 64-bit as in 64-bit Office 2010 and later. It uses an undocumented function for an optional...
View ArticleVB6 - Converting Unicode strings to Byte Array
Visual Basic stores all strings as double wide characters (16 bits). This is no big deal if you are using standard ASCII characters (7 bits), as the first 9 bits are always zero. But when you need to...
View Article[VB6] Subclassing With Common Controls Library
Subclassing... An advanced topic that has become much easier over the years. About the only thing that can be considered advanced nowadays is the added research subclassing requires to properly handle...
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[Experimental] VB6 FastCGI Server
I was daydreaming about developing a web interface for my VB6 program, and I thought I'd play around with the Nginx web server since it is dead easy to deploy (no installer required), and LGPL. Nginx...
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[VB6] - 3D Fir-tree.
Once I've done this, but this time I added the ability to adjust your creation. To work needed dx8vb.dll (inside the archive, put in a folder with the program). Output by double-clicking....
View Article[VB6] - Translation of the string to a number and vice versa.
VB6 functions for translation and verification of numbers to strings (and back) is very uncomfortable in terms of the fact that there is a lot to write, and they have their "eat." We can write the...
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[VB6] - "Lens" on VB6
With this software, you can view a certain part of the screen increases, the increase can change the wheel, exit - ESC. Module: Code: Option Explicit ' Модуль modMain.bas ' © Кривоус Анатолий...
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[VB6] - 4d hypercube (tesseract)
I have always aroused the interest of four-dimensional figures, and generally multi-dimensional space. I decided to write a small program where you can twist the four in four-dimensional hypercube in...
View Article[VB6] - Saving pictures to a byte array in the format jpeg, without using file.
This is useful for example to transmit or packaging. It is also possible to make conservation and other similar formats and also the opening of the bitmap memory. Code: Option Explicit Private Type...
View Article[VB6] - Vocoder.
Hello everyone. Creating music, I've seen a lot of different virtual instruments and effects. One of the most interesting effects is the vocoder, which allows you to modulate his voice and make it...
View Article[VB6] - Kernel-mode driver.
Hello everyone. There was a time, and decided to write something unusual on VB6, namely to try to write a driver. I must say before that I never wrote a driver and have no programming experience in...
View Article[VB6] - Circular spectrum visualizer.
Representing the source code and compiled program graphical visualizer audio spectrum. The sound is analyzed through a standard recording device Windows, ie You can select the microphone and view range...
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[VB6] - Class for subclassing windows and classes.
Developed a class with which you can work with subclassing. The class has an event WndProc, which is caused when receiving the message window. You can also put on a class subclassing windows. There are...
View Article[VB6] - FM synthesizer (Trick FM)
Once upon a time he studied sound synthesis, in particular FM (frequency modulation) method. Was written test program synthesizer. Today I tweaked it a little bit, did GUI, etc. Features: 6...
View Article[VB6] - Multithreading is an example of a fractal Julia.
I really like fractals and fractal sets. Wrote several test programs, where you can generate and change the settings for different fractals. In this example, you can generate the Julia set and change...
View Article[VB6] - Custom rendering window (non-client) and TaskBar indication.
In Windows 7, there was a remarkable thing - indication of progress on the taskbar button. To use this feature on VB6 (and any other language) you need to create an object TaskBarList, get...
View Article[VB6] - Kernel mode driver.
Hello everyone (sorry my English). There was a time, and decided to write something unusual on VB6, namely to try to write a driver. I must say before that I never wrote a driver and have no...
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