VB Forum / Win API / July 2004

I have a application with a MDI Child form that has a SysListView32 Control
on it.
I need to read the data off the List from my VB6 application.
I have control of what the parent form caption will be but that is all that

hi gang,
I am attempting to retrieve a small icon from an app.
The "icon resource" contains TWO icons, a standard 32x32 icon, and a smaller
version which is 16x16.

I have a program that needs to set the system time to that of another
machine on the local network.  Both machines will be running Win2K or WinXP.
Does anyone out there know of an API perhaps that will do this?  I know you
can do it with the Net time /set command, but I want my ...

We have an NT service implemented in VB (service pack 6) on the
Windows NT 4 platform (service pack 6a).
The NT service is implemented as a standard EXE which includes a DLL
as a reference and creates an object of the class declared in the DLL.

Here is my problem. I know what these line achieve but I don't understand
how. They make a Modal form with ShowInTaskBar=False display in the task
bar.
Line 1:   lReturn = GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE)

I need help in plotting the rotated coordinates of a rectangle.
If I rotate a rectangle at say 10.0 degrees, I need the x and y pos. for
each corner.
If that's not enough the rotated rectangle will at times be scaled.

I've written a vb6 program that interacts with another
application and i'm having one issue.  The program has a number of
mdi child windows inside it and i'm reading text and interacting with
one window in particular.  The problem is that sometimes the user is

can anyone please provide me with code to extract and then save an icon.
i've tried savepicture but that saves it to bmp with black background.
Could someone pls let me know the proper way to do it.
ben

With a combobox or listbox, you can send the CB_FINDSTRING[EXACT] or
LB_FINDSTRING[EXACT] messages with SendMessage to quickly find an item in
the control's .List array. Is there any similar way to find a value in the
.ItemData array quickly?

I want to solve this problem:
I have a Access DB. In this DB is a Formular. If this formular moves, i want
to move a second form to a new position. This form behaves like a window. So
i must get an event, when this form/window moves. How can i make this.

I hope this is the right forum for this!  It does use the API and it sort of is graphics, so I guess I'm close enough...  :)
I'm drawing polygons using the same code from MSDN at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;81470
The only problem is this example requires ...

Hi Gang,
Or is used to combine constants.
How can I find out if a particular constant is present
in the combined value?

Can anybody please recommend either a good example how to use the Win-APIs
to have multithreading support in a VB6 project.
More better would be if anyone knows a VB class that uses the APIs and
offers Multithreading support.

I'm working on a project that uses a good amount of images stored in VB6
Imagelist's, stdPictures' loaded from resource and so on.
I've developed the app on Win XP and never had a problem until I tested on
98/ME where all hell broke loose...

I have a VB6 application that I am loading up in the system tray using
API's. the App is fine but when I shut down the icon does not remove itself
until I move my mouse over it.
Is there a solution to this problem.