http://www.msvisual.com/VB-WinAPI-f9.html VB WinAPI: Recent 20 threads http://www.msvisual.com/Reboot-win2k-into-dos-on-ramdisk-t29091.html I have an application that won't run in a dos box under win2k. The HD is the only bootable device. I'd like to have win2k reboot into dos mode and run it from a ramdisk. Ghost and other disk imaging programs do this. Ghost even gives the option to add files to the ramdisk before the reboot. .. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:12:18 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Turn-window-upside-down-t29086.html I have an old "1994" integrated flat-panel display with 486dx4-100 computer. Windows 98SE, Chips & technology video chip. I want to use it as a GPIB controller. The NI GPIB card won't run in anything newer than win98 and I've only got 16MB of ram anyway. But all the cables come out the botto.. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:39:50 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Startup-app-run-as-administrator-t29077.html I have a program that needs to be run on startup with administrator privileges. How can this be done and work in Vista? If I require the application to run with administrator privileges and just create a shortcut to it in the startup items, it never runs. I can't see any other way to do this... Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:11:41 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Interacting-with-c-Boost-Libraries-t29075.html Hi I'm wondering if anyone has done any work on accessing the Boost libraries. I'm particularly interested in the Regex (I know VBscript has a regex engine, I'm looking at boost as a potential alternative). I don't know c++ at all so am not sure how or where to start to make these dlls .. Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:19:19 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Please-help-IE-window-DOM-by-focus-automation-error-t29041.html I have been beating my head against this for days... Please can someone help me out. I am trying to get access to any IE browser window that comes into focus so I can use it's DOM for voice synthesising. I can get the current browser window focus. I set the objDoc to the browser's object .. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:24:14 PST http://www.msvisual.com/CreateToolhelp32Snapshot-and-EnumProcessModules-won-t-work-o-t29074.html I previously used CreateToolhelp32Snapshot to get PID of a given process running and then EnumProcessModules to list the modules (dll's)running with that process. however, my programs were solely used in 32 bit environment before. I wish to be able to utilize the same code to list 64 bit pr.. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:17:23 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Printer-Server-s-printer-monitoring-t29073.html Hi all I have a "small" problem with the printer server monitoring (so not a single printer, a server with a lot of printers). Monitoring type is PRINTER_NOTIFY_TYPE (I want to see the printer settings changes only, no JOB or other ) Openprinter( server .... (so I monitor the server itself,.. Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:40:56 PST http://www.msvisual.com/FindFirstFile-FindNextFile-t29059.html I've used the subject APIs at least umpteen times. Currently, I am asking for all "*.csv" files. No problem. However, when I renamed one of the files, say, Pizza.csv-x, The APIs also returned that file. Am I perhaps incorrectly passing the type to FindFirstFile? Or is this a "feature" of.. Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:38:58 PST http://www.msvisual.com/UTC-offset-for-MY-when-program-runs-in-another-time-zone-t28844.html When running a program on a computer in, say, Tokyo, I can get the UTC times that correspond to the Tokyo times. However, the program also needs to know the corresponding UTC Time for New York. Is there a way to determine the UTC offset in time zone A when a program is running in time zon.. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:06:18 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Using-WinInet-t28886.html We are developing a system tray application using WinInet which will upload files to the server and will communiate with server through ASP pages. I would like to like to know the limitations of WinInet, do's and dont's known bugs, all WinInet Error Codes (msdn has only errors code starting.. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:06:00 PST http://www.msvisual.com/GetProcAddress-not-working-in-VB6-for-me-Ideas-Full-progr-t29018.html I can't get GetProcAddress to return anything but 0. The LoadLibrary seems to work. Full console app below: --------------------------------------------------------------- Module Module1 Private Declare Auto Function LoadLibrary Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal ProcName As String) As Intege.. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:05:15 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Preventing-all-thread-s-windows-becoming-foreground-when-one-t28987.html Hi all, seems like I am trying to fight a "feature" here. Well, maybe there is some help. I am developing a multi-window Office add-on. It's not MDI, and the windows are not all the same. As I don't want to handicap users working with Office by modal dialogs, I have decided to make most .. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:15:49 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Finding-open-windows-t28933.html Hi, my Access app starts an instance of Word in an Acc97 form. So far I have complete control over Word, except in the circumstance that Word has other "windows" (including dialogs like the printing dialog) open. Searching the web I found no reliable way to get Word's status in case anot.. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:32:30 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Aliasing-a-UDT-t28866.html Hiya, I'm sure many of us have seen the vbAccelerator code for DIB sections. In the code, Steve aliases an array variable to point to existing data stored elsewhere. The basic idea, for those who don't know, is that you can declare an empty array variable, perform a little API-fu, and a.. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:25:55 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Howto-prevent-Word-doc-to-be-printed-in-BW-allow-it-in-Colo-t28957.html Hi. I've been given the following task Some of our "precious" docs will be saved in a shared folder on the network. Only some people will have access to that folder. Those people are supposed to print those docs, BUT ONLY IN COLOR - BW printing should pe prevented. So... this is my problem. .. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:01:44 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Registry-t28885.html I want to store a date and two integers in the Registry. Where is a safe place to store these values where the location would be on any computer? I would also like to encrypt the values; how can I do that? Then, how do I compare the current date against the encrypted stored date? Finally, I .. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:15:15 PST http://www.msvisual.com/stop-running-dll-t28948.html Hi In my vb.net application I use fortran dll for some calculations and I was wondering how to stop running dll in the middle of the calculations by pressing Esc key Any help is welcome Thanks MK Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:51:38 PST http://www.msvisual.com/How-to-Verify-a-file-on-a-USB-Thumb-Drive-t28908.html How to Verify a file on a USB Thumb Drive? I'd to write some files to a USB thumb drive and verify that they were written correctly. Reading the file back is useless, because you get what's in the file cache and not what's on the drive. I find lots of info on flushing WRITE buffers, but.. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:36:21 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Page-Setup-Dialog-Printer-button-t28767.html Hi. I have an application developed with Visual Basic 6.0 that use the following API: Public Declare Function PAGESETUPDLG Lib "comdlg32.dll" Alias "PageSetupDlgA" (pPagesetupdlg As PAGESETUPDLG) As Long This API let me see and use the page setup dialog, where exists a Printer button .. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:37:00 PST http://www.msvisual.com/Internetopen-generates-Error-No-more-handles-can-be-generat-t28838.html Hi, I'm using the function InternetOpen, InternetConnect and FtpPutFile to put a file onto a FTP-Server. Generally it's working very well, every minute a file ist generated. But about every 14 days i get the error, when using InternetOpen: 20001, No more handles can be generated.. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:34:55 PST