VB Forum / Win API / June 2004

I would like to know if there is an api function that would let me change the printer used only by a vb program, I don't want to change the default printer in windows, and I don't want to open a dialog box to let the user choose the printer, I would like to set the printer to use ...

I have an application which opens an off-the-shelf application (WinFax to be
exact) and programatically manipulates it, so the end-user doesnt even have
to touch the launched program. There is a control on a dialog of that app
which looks like a treeView, however, when I get the ...

I have a program that takes several seconds to shut down
after the user closes (normal behavior).  To give the user
instant gratification I minimize the program to the task bar
when they click close, thus allowing the rather slow shutdown

How can I retrieve the Domain Name using VB6?
Thanks in advance
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All I wanted to do was to get the size of a button in a window caption (like
close, minimize,...)
GetSystemMetrics with the parameter SM_CXSIZE (30) and SM_CYSIZE (31) seemed
the right tool for the job, because these parameters are "Width and height,

I am looking for information on how to add items to the standard 'undo, cut,
copy, paste, delete, select all' context menu available when in the context
of a text box? Also I would like to disable some of the items in the context
menu.

I discovered that if I have a form with a bitmap or icon that is made high
resolution, and I run it at 256-color depth, that the image is awful bad
when it's a VB6 program, and it is translated to an acceptable image if it's
a VB.NET program.

I am fairly new to VB in Mac Excel 2004 or any other VB for that matter. I
have succeeded in building a gui front end to a workbook with several
worksheets and was really feeling my oats when I came to the point when I
wanted to be able to load graphics files into an Image object ...

I am using the FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker) object in a home-made MS Access application to select multiple files for deletion. I've discovered that when you select a shortcut to e.g. a data file (this is officially termed a 'shell link', I believe?), the actual ...

Does anybody know where I can find what Unicode characters belong in
which character set, and vice versa?
I'd like to be able to convert a 8-bit text (like, say, in an e-mail) to
the proper Unicode characters, and back.

On msdn site is stated that the apicall EndTask only is available from W2000
and up. But, there is a chance it will no longer be supported in future
changes of Windows.
So, what is the alternative? Can you help?

Is it possible to launch an app (say notepad) from with VB and get it
to appear within a frame on the VB application ?

I am trying to roll out my app in 256 colors as my clients are going to use it on terminal services. The problem I am facing is that all the "soft colours" which I used in High Color/True Color modes seem to dither and have dots on them which gives a very "ugly" look to the grids ...

I used the Split(txt,vbcr/vbcrlf) to split an text into several lines, this
will normally return
one line of text. But sometimes it return two lines. What are I doing wrong?
Regards

I have an event function controlling the setting of the VK_CAPITAL key; I
modify it via GetKeyboardState and SetKeyboardState; everything works.
Unfortunately I have a Logitech *wireless* keyboard: the logitech icon on
the taskbar, which shows the CAPITAL on/off setting, doesn't ...