VB Forum / Win API / June 2004

I am seeking some winapi or vb way how to get HANDLE from POINTER.
The only way I have found is to use GlobalHandle, but when I try it with vb
pointer, I get only pointer again.
Any ideas?

im able to set file permissions using Get/ SetNamedSecurityInfo... but i
can't for the life of me work out how to get the API to set permissions
on AD Objects.  the API is designed to do it - i must be too dense.!
my error occurs at

Is there any API which converts a <a href></a> tag to a hyperlink and then
the user can click on the hyperlink?
Ivan

Anyone seen this before?
I'm having problems calling ExitProcess at the end of a console-mode app (in
order to set the process exit code), but only when I use GetObject and
access WMI -- otherwise it works fine. I get something similar to:

Aloha:
Using this method, I declared the SHCopyKey fn.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Declare+Function+SHCopyKey+Lib+%22shlwapi.dll%
22+Alias+%22SHCopyKeyA%22+(+_&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=eHSP9vi3CHA.2132%
40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&rnum=1
Private Sub Command1_Click()

Hi, exist an API to create a Dial-Up Connections without user interaction?
Thank you

I am making a small chat application. The chat works perfectly as it should
but i am not able to connect from a computer which is behind a NAT router.
I have been trying and trying for 5 days now but can't seem to find the
answer. I even read up on ARP and managed to get the routers ...

I am sure this is a solvable problem, but I don't know quite how to
get there. What I am trying to do is get notification when a computer
on my network is turned on. Eventually I need to get this PC's network
name - but I can easily achieve that, it the notification that the PC

I have a simple vb applet, i'd like to check if the app is running to
prevent duplicate instances...
thanks for your quick replies :)

is it possible to make just a Picture box topmost? The picture box I'm
thinking about is positioned on a MDI parent form (between menu bar and
client area proper) and contains more or less a configurable toolbar with
alarm state information. Now, if I open dialogs within my ...

I need to do some work with file access and locking locking. Specifically,
given a file name I need to find a list of all users who are accessing the
file. For each accessor, I'll need to return the following information:
User Name

Is there an API which I can use in order to scroll a menu down to the last
entry. We have a menu which is built from the 'bottom up' as far as our
application is concerned. In other words, the menu pops up from a widget at
the bottom of our UI and the last couple of entries on the ...

Anyone know which API call I should be looking at to force windows to immediately take notice of registry changes that affect Internet Explorer (version 6.0)?
For instance, I can turn off images in my browser by toggling the value of
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet ...

Hiho
i used the code from  http://vb-tec.de/fndfiles.htm to search any files.
But the API dont find files that are created from business-apps or Win-RAR,
WinZIP.... If i copy the files in an other dir, the API will find all!

I'm building an app that uses a secondary monitor (Dual Display etcetera).
Now I want to add an application, PowerPoint, running the slideshow on the
second screen.
I already have code to get PP started and placing it in a form. What I now