VB Forum / Win API / March 2004

Do any of the messages that a form/window receives when it
looses focus contain a process ID or hwnd in either of the
parameters of the last window (or app) that had the focus,
for the purpose of restoring focus to that window?

I discovered Bruce McKinney's book and Win API type library a few years back
and have used it w/o problems in several VB5 projects under Win98 SE. After
upgrading to WinXP it did not install properly so I did a search on Google
Groups. I was surprised to see so few references to it. ...

Good morning fellas,
   Using good old plain VB6, I'm still on my Internet "made easy" kit for
my boss.  Now that I managed to check OS and launch proper setup (thanks to
MVPs and a few others), I decided to add a twist to those "detection

I load a gif256 file into a picturebox.How can I transform it to have
only 2 or 4 colors?
Thank you

Is it possible to change the row height in a listview (report mode).
I want to put a combobox in the listview but the row should be more or less
the same height of the combobox.
TIA

Howdy,
   This is simply what I need to run from my application : Start > Run... >
rundll32 netshell StartNCW
   Basically it starts the New Connection Wizard which let my software

After some difficulty I have been able to by using api calls obtain the
handle of a window on a third party program that I have launched via a Shell
call.
Now I need to "click a menu item or send a Hotkey shortcut " by sending ( I

I am upgrading my app (working well with VB6) to VB.NET. It sends MIDI messages using the API multimedia winmm.dll
These functions are declared
Public Declare Function timeSetEvent Lib "winmm.dll" (ByVal uDelay As Integer,
   ByVal uResolution As Integer, ByVal lpFunction As ...

I have a VB application which at times requires a lot of CPU resources.
Running "in the background" is an application (written mostly in C#.NET)
which mostly sleeps, but wakes up every so often and does critical work.
My problem is that sometimes when the second application wakes up ...

Dear VB Experts,
We have a couple of applications developed in VB6 that use some common
code. Now we wish to maintain the common routines separately like in
the form of ActiveX DLL or a common bas file. This DLL or common bas

Does anyone know how I would go about drawing a focus rectangle in a
PictureBox that is filled with the system highlight colour. I am trying to
duplicate the effect produced by the standard Dropdown List Combo box in VB.
I have the code to draw the focus rectangle done using ...

I have a keyboard hook written in VB and it is very
straightforward and doesn't appear any different than any other keyboard
hook I've seen in example code or samples.  It ALWAYS unhooks itself
properly (I believe) whenever the app closes and yet I occasionally get some

how lunch an application from vb6

I have a directory full of images of various sizes.
I need all these images to be a certain size (e.g. 250 x 200) or smaller.
Some of these images are already smaller.
So, I need to load each image, find out it's size and if it doesn't fit in

I've got the following situation currently all written in VB6. An ActiveX
EXE which acts as the server and various clients connect to it over a
clsUser multiuse object. This server is quite big and complex and one
function that it does it calculate the shortest paths from source to