VB Forum / Win API / September 2003

  How can I retrieve the value of Name's property in
Menu's object provided in VB ? the menu is created with
VB's Menu Editor. I have tried using the GetMenuString's
API but it only retrieve the Caption's value rather than

I hav a problem.
How can I ask the statment of the mouse buttons (down ,or up) with an API
function ?
Thanks in advance.

Because i wanted to see all the image in a small form
i made a Picture Box that contain this Image, that is the
Picture Box is container of the Image (: I made a
PictureBox and a Image control and i cuted the

I know that this post doesn't belong here.
But I think that somebody else in here has same problems with his mail
account, and or newly discovered bug in MS Windows NT based OS with DCOM
enabled.

I need to take the contents of a picturebox, convert it to a DIB and pass
the handle to the DIB to a DLL.
I found a routine in Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer's Guide to
the Win32 API to convert the picturebox to the DIB, pages 901-902.  But, I

I need to write a simple app that can send a message to the Windows
Messenger service (along the lines of the NET SEND "message").
Where can I find details of the Messenger interface?
Or

I need a color other than blue in the progress bar.
How can do this ?

Is there anyway to post a vbkeyleft to an apllication using WM_Char not
WM_KeyDown?
TIA

Hi People,
I need to extract the IP, Subnet Mask, Gateway and DNS for my PC.
Please advise on how to do this in Visual Basic 6.0 ?
Best wishes,

I am using Winsock control to write Client and Server application.My code
follow :
////////// SERVER SEND ///////////////
type CTEMP

I am writing a colorfull post-it notes style application
and would like to be able to match the color of the
window frame to the yellow/red/blue/etc of the window
client area.

Hi Group,
I am looking at calling CascadeWindows API from VBA.  The declaration
specifies an argument of type RECT.  How do I get a reference of this type?
Regards,

I have a web page control, I load the website that I need, and then
there is a link I want it to click as soon as it appears, how would I
do that?
I would rather not use Mouse_Event to do it.

How do i create an .avi file from a series of .tga files??

I need to get the system-language id.
I found lots of entries, but they all receive the locale, which is changable
by the user.
I need the language, the system was installed (so select the matching