VB Forum / Win API / July 2004

I see that there are several versions of the rich text edit control
and several versions of the rich text format, so the obvious question
here is which versions of the rich text edit controls support which
versions of the rich text format ? I have been unable to find the

Using VB6 SP6.
How does one change the background color of a listview to a custom value?
I believe it can be done via using theSetLong API call no?
Many thanks,

How can i close a program that is running?
For instance, if i want to close a program who's process is named "My Program" how can i close this Process?

Hello, All:
I wrote code snippet to verify the waitformultipleobjects function.
But I got error return, WAIT_FAILED. The error code is 87: The
parameter is incorrect. Can you do me a favor to solve this problem?

I have an uninstaller in which I use MoveFileExA to schedule deletion
of the uninstaller itself on next reboot. Unfortunately, some users
are uninstalling the program, then reinstalling before rebooting. The
result is that the scheduled deletion still occurs and the registered

I'am trying to draw lines in a VB picturebox using Polygon API instead of
the picbox.line method. Here is the code I use:
[USC is a picturebox, I set autoredraw=true, all others properties are
defaults]

On WinXP forms can have drop shadows. How can this be done with VB?
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Hello, I'm working on a small project in VB which will use many comm
ports. MSCOMM only supports up to 16 ports.. I've done some hunting
around, and found either I can buy something like SaxComm, or I can
use the API.  While this is a small project, I cannot justify spending

Im making a control program for another program and im using sendmessage api
to set text to text boxes and sendmessage api to push buttons.. My problem
is i need the indevidual hwnd's of  two textboxes that have the same class,
same parrent, and i cant go by text because that too ...

i dont know if this is the right news group...
is there a way to check if the short date in regional settings is in format
d.m.yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy and if its in format d.m.yyyy to change it to
dd.mm.yyyy ?

I have created an NT Service in VB6 using NTSVC.OCX and it works fine.
However, I tried to rebuild it with a different module name (*.exe),
as well as different Title, etc. -- everything I could think to change
in the .vbp project file.  But after uninstalling the original

my objective is to run an application(eg. C:\windows\notepad.exe) from my
vb6 application.
'i declared such functions already
Private Declare Function CreateProcessA Lib "kernel32" (ByVal

I am creating an open/save dialog.
Is there a way (some api functions) to download files from defined
network places (on windows xp) like web or ftp folders when knowing
the itemidlist for the specified file? Or maybe I will have to get the

I am trying to use VB to accomplish various drawing tasks with the output going to an Image Control on an Access form.  The basic drawing is working fine; however, I am trying to use ExtCreatePen() so that I can control line endcap styles.  No matter how I experiment with the ...

I'm using get and setwindowlong and SetLayeredWindowAttributes for some fade
effects on some 30 different forms. They all work fine except for one.
Whenever the code is fired from a button on another form windows crashes
spectacularly. The machine just reboots with no blue screen or ...