VB Forum / Win API / September 2004

Hi...
I have a form with maping control from which I can get hdcw. Is it possible
draw line accross this control.?
Best regards...

   Dear readers,
I need to set the left printer margin. You can retreive the margin with:
 Declare Function GetDeviceCaps Lib "gdi32" _
      (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long

Good Sunday to NG.
I built a ComboboxEx with COMCTL32.
It's a good way to use this controls....!
Now i need to extract the Selected Text and ItemNumber.

I use SetTimer / KillTimer.
After calling KillTimer, I do my wrapup. Program even executes the "End"
statement, then the Timer triggers and sends me back to my AddressOf DoTimer
Procedure.

Is it possible to get one color on a form compleatly "removed" and
another one transparent??
evry way I try results in either 1: Nothing are drawn. or 2: all colors
became transparent =/

Dear Experts.
I'm trying to have my VB6 program operate an external program (MainConcept
MPEG Encoder) so as to allow my program to change the encoded filename,
start encoding, stop encoding, etc. This other program is most likely

I know how to generate a rtf representation of a bmp using api,
is there any function to remove the background of the embedded metafile like
word tool does?
I'm really stuck with this problem; I just want to put a picture with no

Hi;
Is there a way to control hard drive power based on a schedule, i.e. shut
down over weekends & holidays?
Thanks,

I would like to have the standard Windows date calendar open from within
Excel and have the user select a date, which is then filled to a cell. Any
idea how to do that ?
Best regards

   Is there a solution for fixing sub-item 'background drawing' in
ListView?
   In case next situation:
       Report view + full row select + subitem images + background picture,

I have the following situation:
Customer has an existing application, with a lot of forms.
Every form appears in the taskbar when open.
No access to source code, but it looks like a multitude of languages was

I use specific code to manage menus, and to add icons. In this code, I call
the system to know the background color of the menu bar.
On 98, it's running fine.
On XP, it's a mess. Depending how display is set (either XP styles or other

I'm developing a VB6 application that lists x number of files with their
associated icons. I'm using the SHGetFileInfo API to get the icon assoicated
with the specified file. Then I'm using OleCreatePictureIndirect API to
convert the icon into a picture object and adding it into ...

I have two components, in separate DLLs which subclass a window for a
specific set of messages - different in each case.  I have recently started
using them together, but when they are used together on the same window, I
start getting strange behaviour and crashes.  I was wondering ...

Someone can tell me Declare of API SetCurrentViewMode or have an axample of
this API?
Thank you