VB Forum / Win API / June 2004

I am using VB6 with service pack 6.  I would like to use API's to create a
print function that would show the user a graphic representation of the
sheets to be printed before the actual printing is done -- a print-preview.
Does anyone know off-hand what API's to use?

I'd like to add a lot of items to my Listview but stop the listview updating
until the last item.
I tried this;
   Call SendMessage(ListView1.hWnd, WM_SETREDRAW, False, 0)

I want to Start a Process as Another User from Visual Basic 6. I'm using the
"CreateProcessWithLogonW" API for 2000 and XP.
How can I do this for win98 and ME ?
Thanks in advance.

in one of my  vb6 apps, I have a list which launches internet explorer for
the item in the list index but if a user selects or clicks on another item,
a new internet explorer window starts
is there a simple way not to start a new ie6 window but open the document in

i'm a student informatics and i'm busy with a music database project.
I've a database with all my songs in and i want to play them with Windows
media player.
So i have a listbox, when i select song they stand in that lisbox and when i

Is there any API available for reading the MPEG-2 file header
information (e.g. clip length in time unit, frame rates, bit rates) please?
Thanks.

Ok theres loads of posts on the web about form transparency but none do quite what i want
I'm working in VB6 and i want to create a splash screen for my application using a semi transparent .png (24 bit alpha fading) image that has fading/gradient transparency. I want to make the ...

Does GetLogicalDriveStrings and GetLogicalDrives support all kinds of
disk drives? Disconnected ones, too?
Is there an API function for getting disk drive volume labels?
If I know that drive X:\ is a network drive, how can I know if it's

I'm looking for a why to programmatically retrieve the "Segment Sent" and
"Segment Retransmitted" statistics that an user would retrieve by doing an
"netstat -s -p tcp".
Anyone have any ideas?

I have an app that employs MAPI to log in to the messaging system, create a message, attach a file to the message, and display the message to the user ready to be sent.
Everything works properly if I use Excel, Word, Access, Text or PDF files as attachments. But if I try to attach ...

I would like to know if there are any code samples in VB that shows how to
enumerate and access the news articles in a NNTP newsgroup (such as:
microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion) ?
Thank you very much in Advance!!

I'm looking for the correct flags I have to use to display the 'Browse
For Folder' dialog as it does when running Windows XP.
Especially I want to have the folder shortcuts displayed, but no other
files (so BIF_BROWSEINCLUDEFILES is not an option).

Hi, i got 2 simple questions, i will love if somebody can help me with
this.
Question 1
There is any way that i can read the text in the text window of notepad (

How can I determine whether the logged in user is in either the local
Administrators OR Powerusers group? (Win2000/XP) (VB6)
Cheers,
John

I use VB6 sp5.
I have a grid, that displays a vertical scroll bar  when Item numbers
exceeds display. I need a function or a method to go to the last row by
moving scrol bar down. Is there any API that can help.