VB Forum / Win API / October 2004

I have a form that remains loaded during the life of the program, since the
"Load" event is somewhat costly.  I allow the user to show and hide the form
through a button.
Is there something like a "Show" Event -- an event that is triggered only

I have a VB6 Form and I can successfully host it in an external MDI app.  By "successfully", I mean it is situated inside the MDI client area and appears under the MDI Client Window when inspecting with Spy++, etc.  However, it doesn't seem to follow any of the expected behaviors ...

I want to copy the file having long File name(Len(Path)+len(Filename))>256)
using CopyFile API.
Currently I am able to copy the file having length less than 256 or 128( i
haven't checked the exact len).

I have a VB6 Program Installed on a client computer.
When the user don't use it for a period of more than 10 minutes,
the program is in a kind of "sleep", i.e. it take few seconds for a command
button to

Does anyone know offhand if there is any single place (i.e. Registry Key
set, WMI, etc...) where one can parse to find out what options (i.e.
DHCP Server, IIS, DNS Server, etc...) are currently installed on a PC?
Thanks!

How to open processes properly? I need to retrieve their filenames,
workingsets, etc. When I run this sample
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;187913 , OpenProcess
returns 0 for some processes. I added GetlastError to that code and got a

I need to implement my own file Explorer in my own application. At least, I
think I do. I can launch the Windows Explorer and embed it into my own
application, that's no big deal, we do this with various other application.
But I won't know which files the user is selecting and I ...

I need to know and report the version of Windows my user is using. (I'm
developing in VB6, SP6.) The internet has many sample code modules purporting
to do such detecting and reporting.
For Windows 98, many of the sample code modules use a line of code like

I am tring to build a sample VB6 test application that can play MP3 saved on
my hard disk.
But i need to know how far through the song it is and the length of the song
things like that.

If you right-click on a file in Windows Explorer and choose Properties,
Windows displays a Summary with title,  author, keywords, comments etc.
How can I access these properties programmatically?
Thanks.

I posted this over in win32.programmer.ui, but that was probably not
the right group. I'd appreciate some input from this group.
For reasons that aren't important here, I need to create a window to
obscure a known (small) area of the screen. By "obscure", I mean, it

I'm trying to establish an Internet Connection, using the following API
Code:
Private Const FLAG_ICC_FORCE_CONNECTION = &H1
Public Declare Function InternetAttemptConnect Lib "wininet" (ByVal

Hello, I'm using VB5 designing kids' software and in it I need to fill some
areas with color, so I use the ExtFloodFill included in the gdi. The thing
is, this works perfectly on computers with Windows 95, 98 and ME, but it
keeps sending an stack overflow error on NT based ...

This post concerns reading the 'File Types' dialog box
which can be displayed manually via the steps:
  Open Windows Explorer (or the 'My Computer' icon)
  Drop down the 'View' Menu

   I was wondering if anyone had an example of using the AlphaBlend API in
.NET (preferably VB.NET), I can't find one anywhere.  Thanks loads in
advance.
Nick.