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  1. terpy

    usb2 external drive

    Can you click on the "sort of there" drive? You don't say what version of Windows XP you are using. It is possible that there is a setting that prevents Windows from accessing the next available drive letter. (This is a stab in the dark.) Do you have any other USB devices that work? First, make...
  2. terpy

    DateTimePicker

    You can try keeping track of the date that was last selected, and then compare the date the event fire reports. So you would have a variable persisting with the last selected date in it, which you would of course update every time the user actually selected another date. If the date hasn't...
  3. terpy

    usb2 external drive

    As long as the PC recognizes the format the files are in, it should work. terpy
  4. terpy

    how to check if form is open

    I assume you have already dimmed the form. Once you do that, the form exists in memory; it just isn't visible to the user. However, certain properties of the form are not initialized when you dim it, specifically its position on the screen. So one thing you could do (and I sure hope someone else...
  5. terpy

    Reading text file with high ASCII characters

    Hi, The answer to this is probably staring me in the face, but I can't see it. I have a number of files that contain chevron characters (Asc 174 & 175). When I read the file into a StreamReader, all of those characters are dropped out. For the work I am doing with them, the chevrons are the most...
  6. terpy

    Use splash screen to preload other forms?

    Probably the simplest way is to set an app-wide boolean variable to false, and then have the last form that is loading stuff in the background change it to true. Then in frmSplash load event, loop until the value is true: do until blnIsDone=true loop me.close()

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