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Re: VB 6 ListBox issue... I don't think you'll need any special buttons, and also I think users might have an easier time using your app, if you were to simply turn on the Sorted property of the listbox. Try it out. Let us know. Bob Re: generating random integers Thanks! /That/ was what I was running into. I thought something like it too, but the VB6 help versions seem to show only the horribly simplified single example now. Bob Re: Can a VB6 application 'promote' itself? Afterthought: In general, unless you're authoring a wallpaper changing utility or some other application that needs to write to HKLM, your app shouldn't need admin privs. What exactly do you need to do? In most cases there is a sufficent work around (I really need to get my vista assistance site up and running). Re: generating random integers Bob wrote: The Rnd function returns values greater than or equal to 0 and less than 1. You should use the Randomize function once at the start to seed it. It has a period of 2^24, so values repeat after 16,777,216 calls to the function. The function internally produces a psuedo random integer between 0 and Re: Can a VB6 application 'promote' itself? Simply put. No. Are there workarounds? Yes. But none so far are "simple" short of shelling out to a helper app that has requireAdministrator preset. - Kev Re: generating random integers The canonical method would be Int(Rnd * (UB - LB + 1)) + LB CLng is not recommended because of its 'even' bias, and the LB should be added after the Int. I'm pretty sure that's been in the MS Basic docs since forever. VB 6 ListBox issue... Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me. I have a program which does some calculations using an algorithm and returns 15 possible results into a Listbox. Now as it does that, I want it to calculate the largest value found, and highlight that line in the listbox. But once it has done that, I also want to be able to select the next largest generating random integers ...or generating random Longs, whatever. I am unsure if I have a flawed code fragment or if I am running into the oft-mentioned shortcomings of VB's PRNG (psuedo-random number generator) I have a function designed to return a random integer from within the supplied range (inclusive) and the code looks like this: Re: Can a VB6 application 'promote' itself? You can't 'promote' the process, but you can go off and do Administrative things (spawn, etc) - but not without some kind of outside help (built-in or interactive). However, you probably don't want to do this. <g> -ralph Re: A little OT maybe Are you truly 'wondering' or just 'bragging'? 'Missing' implies 'not patched', and that is not necessarily a bad thing. <g> -ralph

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