VB Forum / Win API / August 2004

Using the name of a remote machine, how can I obtain the IP address of that
remote machine via VB 4 running on the local machine?

i want to get the handle of all buttons they are placed on a
Microsoft-Dialog (e.g. MS-Word-Dialog to activate/deactivate the macros).
Background: I want to operate the Microsoft-Dialogs by remote control from
my program. But the windows-caption and the window-class of few different

hi group,
I use a financial modeling package, which stores its data in model files,
having a ".mod" extension.
Every so often another app (winamp) comes along and claims the ".mod"

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 the
perimeter of the rectangle.
Just as if I were writing a rectangle function.

I want to know: how i get with API the user's default mailing program?
i.(e, Outlook Express, Office Outlook 2003 etc.)

I am looking for a way how to add all MPEG Audio, Ogg Vorbis and Wave
files to a ListView and found FindNextFile to be exactly what I need.
However, I can only supply patterns like "*.wav", "*.mp1"... Is there a
way to search for "*.wav; *.mp1; *.mp2; *.mp3; *.ogg" in only one ...

   I am in need of some help getting my VB6 program using Winsock
connecting to Exchange 5.5 SP4 to use NTLM authentication. Any one have
examples or know of documentation that I can use?
newsreader

if I pass an url to shellexecute the url is opened in the default browser. If I pass another url it is opened in the existing browser. How can I open it in a new browser just like right-clicking a link and choose Open in a new window.
Thanks,
Frank

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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Can this be set using an API call in VB6?
Rich

I'm drawing my own custom calendar control, and for each date in the month I
have an object with properties such as text, font, colors, icon, etc.. I
also have an object collection to hold these date objects.
My question is: Should I create a DC for each object, draw to this DC and

How would I get the computer's IP address in VB 5?

i am building my own MP3 player, one of my issue now is to convert the
miliseconds supplied by the mmc.position into H:M:S
my math is "bad", i did my best to create one, but if you have a better
algorithm, please share with me :)

Is there a VB5/VB6 example available how to suspend a VB application until
an external app pops up a new window (message box with a well known caption)
?

I've got ACE-Type with a SidStart. My question is: How do I get the SID from the SidStart. I found an example in C++ but I need it for VB6.
Thanks