Prevent UAC sound/check for VB6.exe
I found this: UAC Whitelist for Windows 10 · GitHub And works. I have UAC always on, and policy for scripts Restricted, so to enable a white list for applications like VB6 which do changes to OS, and...
View ArticleCInt64() How to use it.
Using integer division on long long works. Here is the output from this module. You can use long long for calculations. See the power function. Also I found that 2^63 return negative, the actual...
View ArticleIdle Screen Player
Did you ever want to have a relaxing movie playing when your computer is sitting idle? Below is a program that will start maximized. Code: Option Explicit Private Sub chkMax_Click() End Sub Private Sub...
View ArticleProgrammers wanted to test a numerical library
Hello, I'm looking for some programmers to beta test a numerical library, written as an ActiveX dll in VB 6 pro. The library provides all elementary functions for integer, floating point and complex...
View ArticleProgramming Krool's TextBoxW to get numeric value with decimals and units/info
This is my solution for taken a value or value and unit/info in a TextBoxW, including null value (empty string). Code: Alignment = 1 - vbRightJustufy AllowOverType = True ' its better CausesValidation...
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VB6 RichEdit (riched20.dll) lightweight Unicode Textbox (only code, no OCX...
This is my attempt to implement a lightweight wrapper class for the RichEdit control (riched20.dll) which has Unicode support and comes by default with any version of Windows (only tested in Win10...
View Article[VB6] Using DDE to check for previous instance
Description This is a small sample on using DDE to check for a running previous instance (w/o using App.PrevInstance) and how to pass current command-line to this already running instance. Usage In an...
View ArticleUnsigned Subtraction for using timer without problem on overlap
The UnsignedSub(a, b) get two signed long, and return a sign long (has the same bits as the unsigned result). For time duration, we can use Signed(a) which get a number and convert it to singed long,...
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Dynamic UDT TypeLibs
Dynamic UDT TypeLibs First and foremost, a huge thanks goes out to The Trick for showing me how to do most of this. Thanks also goes out to Fafalone for making the oleexp.tlb which exposes the...
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Standardized Login
Every time I make a program requiring the user to login, I end up designing the login system from scratch. So I decided to create a standardized system. Objectives: 1. Require a UserID & Password...
View ArticlePassing array in Variant by reference
This is the Class1, which have sub alfa and a parameter an array of type long. Code: Sub alfa(b() As Long) Debug.Print "ok" b(0) = 100 End Sub It is impossible to have an array of type long in variant...
View Article[VB6/VBA] Ascon Lightweight Authenticated Encryption & Hashing
Description ASCON was recently selected as the best of the 57 proposals submitted to NIST Lightweight Cryptography competition. The whole program lasted for four years, having started in 2019. ASCON is...
View Article[VB6] LessPass Desktop Tool in pure VB6
A tiny LessPass implementation in VB6 based on lesspass repo by Guillaume Vincent. Description This is an algorithmic password generator. The clever idea is that the algorithm used produces the same...
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UDT TypeLib File Generator with User Interface (all in VB6)
This is a program to generate ???.tlb files with UDT information. Basically, it's just a UI for the work posted here. Anyone who knows how to code a UDT should find this utility fairly easy to use. Why...
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AddIn to save and load bookmarks in the VB6 IDE
I have written an AddIn for the VB6 IDE, to save and load the bookmarks. This is done project specific, for each project the bookmarks are save separately (by project name). When the AddIn is loaded,...
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Password Bin
If you are like me, you probably have difficulty in trying to remember all the different passwords that are now required to login anywhere. We are strongly encouraged to not reuse passwords and to make...
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DrawingControls for VB6: Shape and Line controls replacement with anti-aliasing
This is a further development of the ShapeEx control. In this case, it is in an ocx project and has been added the companion control LineEx, that is a Line control replacement. The main advantage is...
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ucGallery - Direct2D
Hi, I want to share this usercontrol that I have been working on these days, it is a Gallery control to show images and text, I had done this control previously using GDI+ but its performance was not...
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VB6 - Original InputBox function reloaded with full Unicode and Password Char...
Every time I've searched the internet on how to make the InputBox function support Unicode, the answers were to make your own InputBox using a form, a couple of buttons and a TextBox that supports...
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VB6 - Unicode Captions for all intrinsic controls (yes, LABEL too!) - no OCX...
When developing international applications there is often a need to display user interface elements in foreign languages. I've put together a small "cCapW" class that can handle Unicode captions for...
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