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[VB6] MS Office (MODI) OCR - OCR "for free"
This may already have been posted, but a search turned nothing up here in the CodeBank. If you have an appropriate version of Microsoft Office you can use MODI to do OCR on images. The obvious...
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[VB6] Code Tip: Toggle Button with Image and Text (Vista+, ComCtl6)
NOTE: I will make a sample project, but since I had deleted this content and there was a 'please delete me' filler I wanted to repost as soon as possible. What happened was, I tried the code I posted,...
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How to make a new Ctrl-Break key.
My new Win 8.1 system keyboard doesn't have a Ctrl-Break key, and I found that extremely annoying when working with Visual Basic. So with some research, I located some info on how to disable the Caps...
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VB6 Dual-Pivot-QuickSort
Just to throw something new (for VB6) into the ring of competing Sort-Algos... I've just finished porting (from Java-SourceCode) the relative new (Sep. 2009) Dual-Pivot-Algorithm, invented by Vladimir...
View ArticleFix for SSTab not correctly handling focus and comboboxes
Make a Class module out of the following code, create an object with it for any form that uses the SSTab control and follow directions in comments. Code: ' '...
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Simple Bingo Engine
Hey guys, I made this Bingo Engine, in case any of you guys need ideas on how to make one or need one, there you go. I have also included a small demo project. Attached Files BingoEngine.zip (3.2 KB)
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Random number generator
Here is a small program that demonstrate a random number generator. There are two buttons and a listbox. We can see the frequencies of each of 100 numbers (from 0 to 99). We produce 2000000 random...
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[VB6] Call Functions By Pointer (Universall DLL Calls)
I was recently made aware that a function I've used from time to time for calling virtual functions of COM objects was perfectly adept at calling functions from just about any standard DLL out there....
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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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