VB Forum / Win API / May 2004

If I put the following code in a VB 1 second timer , task manager says that
I am leaking 8 GDI objects per second.
How could I alter this code to stop the leak.
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   I have the following problem. I'm designing an ActiveX control in vb6
that uses a lot of API's.
   It runs well when I test it from a test project in the same project
group but when I want to compile it I have this error:

Assume that the DLL is not registered.
Can a class be instantiated using late binding?
How would I modify the following to achieve this?
Option Explicit

I am curious about how vb handles [out] parameters.
There does not appear to be any designation of whether a parameter is an
[out] parameter or not in the declaration.  Does vb have a built-in table?
I suppose it is easy enough with the usual long parameters.  As the default

Hallo zusammen
Kennt jemand das Programm "Genesis 32 Graphworx"?
Ich würde gerne über dieses Programm welches mit VB arbeitet via UDP eine
SPS ansteuern. Das heisst Verbindung herstellen, Daten senden, Verbindung

Can any one post a URL or example on how to use OpenFile API to read in a
file.
Andy.

I need to write a windows service which temporarily suspends windows login
process and display a custom authentication dialog, On authentication
windows authentication will resume. To be more specific I need to write an
interactive service/application that runs before windows login ...

Hell
I am currently working in a project that reads a metafile, enumerates the records and
draws selectively specific metafile records. The metafile records are simply redrawn using the GDI functions
I am trying to understand/decipher the parameters I have retrieved from the ...

How can I make sure if my local drive D is shared or not? If it is, how
can I find out its share name?
Thanks,
Mika

I am attempting to develop an image management system in VB6 on a XP
machine. I want to get the camera imformation, eg appeture,shutter speed etc
from the image file into my VB application. The information is available in
explorer under XP.I have searched the microsoft site, but the ...

I am write a program for getting the software inventory from registry,
I found that the registry on Windows 98/ME are different with Windows 2K/XP.
Anybody know how can I recongize the Windows Version in VB6?
Thanks

   I have seen this done but how do you change a form to be doughnut shaped.
   I have no practical use for it just intreiged

I have an application which allows only a single instance of itself  to be
running at one time.  If the user tries to open other instance of this app,
in the code, a check is made to see if it isn't already running, and if it
is, a second instance of the application won't open.

I'd like to create an Image viewer (very basic).
What is the best way to display an image (Image control, PicturBox, the
Form.PaintPicture).
I'd like to show the image in the original size, resize when to large (make

I am trying to disable the RTS signal using the
EscpeCommFunction(hSerial, CLRRTS.I think that after this function the
data will not be get sent.Is this so??Because after the
EscpeCommFunction function i call WriteFile function using this the