Copy to Clipboard as Unicode and Html Form
Working for M2000 Interpreter I found this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/274326 For copy text to Html, but without using utf-8 (but works for english because utf-8 has one byte for English...
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[vb6]Yet Another CSV Parser
A fairly basic CSV parser, with a bit more user-control and a slight twist: Event driven by Record The parser does handle quoted field data and delimiters, carriage returns, and other non-printable...
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VB6 - Generate ECC Key DLL
Attached is a DLL program that generates an ECC (Elliptical Curve Cryptography) Key, and a sample program to utilize it. Each side in the exchange creates a Public/Private key, and sends the Public Key...
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GDI+ Workaround: ICONs
Major caveat: The noted limitations apply to at least Vista and lower. Windows 7 and above may have corrected some of these limitations. Since Vista is still an active operating system, you may be...
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[VB6] Look up Enum value names
We see this question as well as very similar ones every so often: "I want to be able to have users pick values by name from a list of Enum value names. Is there a way to do this without manually...
View ArticleFastSort for bytes
Here's my Histogram based FastSort function for bytes. Unlike normal Sort type algorithms, which require often many passes (the exact number depending on the exact arangement of numbers in the array)...
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[VB6] - Store data to EXE.
Hello everyone! There are times when you want to save the data after completion of the program, but did not want to have external dependencies, registry entries, etc. However you can store the data in...
View ArticleVB6 - Fast Sqr
Internal VB6 Sqr() function is very slow Here is my FastSqr() function N>=0 Code: Public Function FASTsqr(n As Double) As Double   Dim X   As Double   Dim oldX  As Double   If n Then...
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VB6 Simple FTP-Client (PASV-mode, based on Winsock.ocx)
As the title says - not much to comment - other than that it's a quite old code-base (though slightly revised now - and still working with most FTP-Servers). Source-Code: FTP-revised2.zip ScreenShot:...
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[VB6] - Wave steganography.
Hi everyone! Today i want to talk about the cryptography. I've made the example of using the special cryptography - the steganography. This method hides the fact of encryption of the data. There are...
View ArticleBSTR2LPSTR and LPSTR2BSTR conversions for VB6
The problem with a number of API functions is that they return strings as LPSTR. An LPSTR is a pointer to a string in memory that is terminated with null (0x00 byte), and the strings themselves are in...
View Article[vb6] PropertyBag, Persisting, Cloning for UserControls
With VB, we have the use of the PropertyBag object. It is used in usercontrols to persist settings and can be used in public classes (within DLL,OCX projects) that have the Persistable property set to...
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[VB6] Lob.com Address Verification
There are all kinds of web services out there. Most have abandoned the troublesome SOAP, but the REST-like API world remains a little bit of a "wild west" and each one may require different fiddling....
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[vb6] Scale + Rotation Routine for Sizing Objects
The two routines shown below can be used by anyone that needs one of the following results: 1. Scale an object to a destination object to include rotation & proportional scaling. Fit rotated bounds...
View ArticleVB6 - Storing Passwords
I finally found a good use for the background manipulation that VB performs on strings. Normally, a password would be saved in the registry as an encrypted or hashed value in Binary format. The...
View ArticleHere's a simple function for calculating the GCD of any 2 positive integers.
This can be useful component of a number of other algorithms. Code: Private Function GetGCD(ByVal a As Long, ByVal b As Long) As Long Dim r As Long Dim q As Long ' Make sure that a >= b, by XOR...
View ArticleSimple method for checking primality of number
This checks every positive integer between 2 and the Floor of the Squareroot of the number to be checked, to see if the Mod = 0. If it equals zero, then it is not prime. If it never is zero, then it is...
View ArticleBinary Code Thunk Experiment
Here's the VB6 code for Form1 Code: Private Declare Function CallProc Lib "user32.dll" Alias "CallWindowProcA" (ByVal ProcAddr As Long, ByVal Param1 As Long, ByVal Param2 As Long, ByVal Param3 As Long,...
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[VB6] Get extended details about Explorer windows by getting their IFolderView
IShellWindows / IFolderView There's some basic ways of working with open Explorer windows, but if you really want to do some intensive work with them, the IShellWindows interface lets you get a...
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[VB6] - Inline assembler Add-in.
Hello everyone! There are cases where you need to use the assembly code in your VB6 projects. Usually this is done using a previously-compiled code that is placed into the the memory. Then this code is...
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