VB Forum / General / October 2004

Does anyone know how to set the desktop menu font size under Advanced
Appearance / Item:Menu / Font and Size programmatically? I believe it's the
SystemParametersInfo API but don't know if I can do that with menu. Anyone
has any idea? Thanks

I developed an application with a white backgound. I change the background
color of all my buttons and labels controls to match the white and it all
works well except for my progress bar and my menus to appear white. Is there
some way to change their colors as well? Please advise ...

I'd like to check if another app is open (in my case Adobe Acrobat) when my
VB6 app is running. How can I do this please?
TIA
Graeme

my winXP regional settings have English (USA), Hebrew and Russian.  Hebrew is
set as the language to match non-unicode programs.
i use MS Access 2000 to store data.  when i manually enter records and type
data into a field in english, hebrew and/or russian - i see it fine and it ...

Every example of code I've seen for this uses antiquated commands
(such as Type) that are no longer supported in VB.NET 2003.
It seems quite simple, yet I have looked EVERYWHERE to find out how to
get the RGB color of a specific POINT on the screen.  I get the cursor

Since a complete reinstall of Win XP Home (with SP2) & VB6 (with SP6B) the
Help system is doing strange things.  For example, if I get help on a topic
and then click one of the links like "Example", "See Also", etc.  When I
first click a link it does not do anything, but if I ...

I have to reed some data from lotus 123 file, but I can't find procedures
and sintaxes for opening file and selecting cells.

I have a large workbook with a lot of forulas in it. I;m planing to give
it to all my go workers to use it. I do not want the workbook to be
copied by no one. I did protected the cells and formulas and so on, but
I want to be able to secure the worksheet from been copied.

I am developing a simple application that a uses MS Access database. So far
I've been using MS DAO 3.6 Object Library for my database code. I've also
noticed that there is a lot of code out there written using MS ActiveX Data
Objects Library 2.5. Is one better than the other, or is ...

I have dumb question.  I have a very small dll that pops up a data entry
form.  The user enters the data and hits search.  I am interfacing with
another program that searches a database on a main frame somewhere.  Then I
screen scrape the other program and depending on what I find I ...

Sometime ago I wrote a clipboard management program for cutting and pasting
text. The program uses keys other than ctrl-c ctrl-v. If a hot key is
pressed, the window in focus and window in foreground are saved, the
clipboard management screen comes up, and after choosing what to do ...

Is there a way to add a default (or named) html signature to the email which
is generated from the code below?
Thanks,
Sean

Need help to programmically send Access generated report to a PDF File.  I
presently preview an Access Rpt and save a Word doc and then print to a PDF
file.  Seems so cumbersome.  The USAF will appreciate your expertise.

I am not sure where to post this, but I will try here first, alhough this
may be a Widows problem.
I am having problems with VB6SP5 acting up lately. Sometimes it opens veeery
slooowly, then sometimes it freezes.

Perhaps someone can help me here. I am trying to load a WAV file into RAM
and play it from there. I can't seem to get it right though. Any help is
appreciated, here's my code so far:
Dim retval As Long  ' return value