VB Forum / Win API / April 2004

This is a problem I have not found a solution for in extensive web
searching.  I am writing an automatic upgrade process for a VB6 app which
will (hopefully) automatically download and install upgrades to the app.
The main app handles everything through the download, then Shells to ...

Before everyone sends me the basic response of using mailslots or the
netmessagebuffersend, please read the problem....
I have a VB program that reacts to certain events by sending a network
message, much in the same way as the dos command  "net send userid hi"

I use LoadLibraryEx to open a resource-dll that contains bitmaps . For
some reason this api call does not work on Win2003 server .
The LoadLibraryEx function returns a LastDllError = "87" , this means
'invalid parameter' .

I have problem with
= URLDownloadToFile(0, urlFileName, locFileName, BINDF_GETNEWESTVERSION, 0)
From client app on XP all is file, but on Win98 (IE 6.0.2800....) i get
urlFile from cache.

Hi all,
I'm trying to get the network user by calling the WNetGetUser in vb.net, what
is the syntax?
thanks

Callback is returning a pointer to a string. ie 1098734
I need to turn that into more meaningful data
TIA

I need to prevent focus moving from control to control on a form (for solving some nonstandard issue)
Can someone help in cancelling the Tab key which is pressed by the user
Thanks in adavance.

Please my very smart friends... We know that Visual basic 4 5 or 6 haven't the funtion
to paint or fill with color for example a triangle red
And we know that we can do it with the Windows' API fillflood but I don't know if
there is a way using the API´s or for other track to fill a ...

With <SendInput> Function, I can turn off NumLock State.
But from < NumLock - Off > state, How can I turn on NumLock State with
<SendInput> function ?
Of course, I can turn on NumLock with < keybd_event > function.

I am trying to fill a listbox with items from a treeview control not in my application. At the moment I am only getting strings of numbers. My code is
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SendMessageA" (
   ByVal hWnd As Long,
   ByVal wMsg As Long,

ReadProcessMemory - Isn't returning meaningful data
Private Sub btnRead_Click(
Dim strTempX As Strin
strTempX = "This is a string

I'm using SHGetFileInfo to get the display names for all drives on a machine.  The problem is that both CD and DVD drives are always returned as a CD drive.  The GetDriveType api call returns a 5 for both CD's and DVD's, so that doesn't help.  The windows explorer display name is ...

How can I display a TIFF file in a picture box? Any free conversion dlls or
ocxsout there?

Is there anyone that now how to retive information about current windows user as domain/username. I try GetUserName, but this only return the current user without domain part (or machine part
Siggi

   How could I change the font script for a textbox(Western, Hebrew,
Arabic,...)?, I tried using the following:
   Txt1.FontName="Times New Roman(Arabic)"
It works on Windows2000 but it does'nt work on WinXP