VB Forum / Win API / July 2004

There is any code example for listing all windows processes (windows 9x and
2000 compatible) and kill one or more by PID ?
Thank you

I am using the Timer API from Visual Basic 6 to trigger an event every
minute. Sometimes the timer won't fire for a couple of minutes, probably
when the process is under heavy load.
Is there a way to get guaranteed events like this? Can I stop the process

Ich habe mit SetParent ein externes Formular ein Formular in meiner DB
zugewiesen um es zu "verankern". Kann mir bitte jemand erklären, was es für
Schwierigkeiten mit sich bring SetParent zu verwenden.
Ich habe gelesen, das keine Messages von Access mehr dort ankommen. Was ist

What I have is three forms. Form one with buttons 1, 2 and 3; and forms 2 and 3 with datagrids.
Button 1 populates arrays a(i,j) and b(i,j) with values.
Button 2 creates a datatable containing the a(i,j) array then adds that table to a dataset
which is in turn bound to a datagrid ...

I'm trying to print a datareport, it gives me the error: the width of the
report is greater than the paper's width. That's because the preinter's
orientation is Portrait, and the report is designed for LandScape. Setting
Printer.Orientation property before to show the report, ...

I need to get a handle to the window that is displayed when PowerPoint is in
slideshow mode, that is, full-screen mode where your slides are displayed in
a slideshow fashion.  How can I get that handle?
Using that handle, I will then use SetCapture from the User32 Lib to capture

is there a simple way to read files currently in IECache folder(s) ?
for example, a user defined path for IE temp files is f:\temp\temporary
internet files and I would like to read any files that match the pattern
"PointerFfa*"

I've written a small program that uploads an existing text file to a
server when the computer starts up and what I discovered is that if it
tries to upload the file immediately as it's executed, the text file
on my server will be blank whereas if I set it to sleep for about 40

I'm in the process of building a custom control, which has among others a
RichTextBox embedded on it. One property I need is
the MultiLine property. The problem is that property is read-only at
runtime, and read/write at design time.

could somebody please tell me whether the MP3 information like Length, Bit
rate, media type, audio codec is obtainable through MCI or not.
sincerely,
vbVeryBeginner d(^-^)b

We have a simple VB application that will run on a number
of Win XP Pro OS systems but will not work on any Win 2K
Pro OS system and we have tried a number...
Our win2K systems are as up to date as possible

This is my second attempt on returning a char array from a C++ DLL as a
String type in VB. My Dll uses _stdcall convention.
This code works when I compile a debug version of the dll.
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I am trying to hide the mouse pointer. I assumed the API call was ShowCursor
however this only seems to hide the cursor when it is over my form. I want
to be able to hide it system wide. Any ideas?
My code is as follows:

In VB 6.0,
1) Are the components : MSCOMM, and Timer run synchronous ?
(I mean that : Does the event "on_timer" run only when the idle process is
active, or can it run when the program do some other process, like some vb

I cannot get any data from secure website (i.e. https://www.website.com)
with username and password using wininet.
Here is my code.
hInternet = InternetConnect(hSession, strURL,_