VB Forum / Win API / July 2004

I have a strange problem.
This code works like a charm on WinXP, but not in Win98SE:
Const EM_POSFROMCHAR = &HD6&
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA"

Hi, I have trouble on using mciSendString function to handling wmv in resource under Windows 98. Unlike Windows XP, wmv files can be recoginzed by the mplayer.exe so does the mciSendString function. However, it is not the same under Windows 98. Neither mplayer.exe nor ...

Hail to the Gurus, :)
I just read some of the 'api call to tchar*'  thread but this is not about  my problem.
I'm using a dll (eyelink_exptkit20.dll) that I've succesfully used from vb6. Among others I declare:
Public Declare Function StartRecording Lib "eyelink_exptkit20.dll" _

I was hopping that someone might know an easy why of getting the Call Stack
at run time for a Visual Basic 6 Application. (Changing to VB.NET is not an
option)
The solution that keeps coming up on the net is to write your own sub

The FolderItem object represents an item in a Shell folder and  has the
property IsBrowsable.
I can guess what it means but can not find any documentation.
Anyone know what it means?

My vb6 app uses a straight DLL via a type library.
The type library references a DLL called CGLink.DLL.   When I run this
app as an exe it is fine.   When I run it several times under the IDE,
it crashes after about 11 attempts due to lack of memory.  This is

The BlockInput API blocks both mouse and keyboard
input to the entire OS and running applications. Is there
a way to block mouse and keyboard input to a specific
windows application.  Say Notepad or Word?

i have some wave sounds that are played, sometimes at the same time. Now I
want to record this output, but I only find examples of recording input, but
here I have to record the output. And there are not only wave sources so I
can't edit just a wave file.

I have a Visual Basic .Net application and it needs to disconnect and map a network drive, How would I go about doing this?

I have a question...(i'm new to visual basic, i worked alot in access, and
now i have learned a lot in vb6 to...)
well actualy two of them
i need my app when started to check if network connection is present and

I want to allow users to change the accelerator keys on menu items.  For example, Ctrl+O is for open but if the user wants to make it be Alt+O then I want them to be able to do that.  I am able to change the menu and caption but........
When the user clicks the shortcut command ...

As part of a migration from NT to XP for 5000+ PCs, I have come across an issue where the case returned by XP for the logged on user is different to under NT.
If you use the username property of the wscript.network object or use the GetUsername API the case is returned as the ...

I have a printing problem after impersonation: No network printer is
available to the impersonated user!
The profile for that user on the machine does have network printers, and on
the domain all the printers are

I am looking for the fastest method to draw a grid in a picturebox.
I have already tried all the standards methods like SetPixelV,
GetbitmapsBits...But they are all too slow.
I've read about a method writing directly into the picturebox bitmap array

Hello Gurus,
I am having a hard time making a call to a dll , the documentation
states that there is the following function
SomeFunction( TCHAR* somVar1, int32 somVar2, uint32 somVar3, void*