VB Forum / Win API / October 2004

Is there a way to retrieve stack info in VB6 app?  Visual Studio does
provide a strack trace until.  Thanks.

Anyone please help me i have two sound card in my computer and i want to
select it from code. Just give me name of function.
Thank u for ur help

Does anyone know how I can check using VB 6 if windows installer is already
installed on the targeted machine?  If not, I need to manually install it
silently from within my application.
Thanks

Firstly, thanks for taking the time to read this post.
Can someone please tell me how I can use the CallWindowProc WinAPI
function within Visual Basic to call another function that returns a
Double ?   I have managed to use it to call functions that return a

I need to paste what is in the clipboard to MS Paint from VB and save it as a
jpg.  How do I do this?  Or can I just save the clipboard as a jpg file from
VB?

Using BitBlt API I am trying to copy Image1 to Picture1.
The question is: How do I get the handle of the Image1 as
the source ?
Thanx in adbvance

What's the difference in usage aforementioned functions? I don't going to
work with win9x.
Thanks,
Lucy.

Vb v 5.0 - Win 2000:-
Is it possible to create a control on  a Form (which will have additional
controls on it) which contains a display like that of the Common Dialogue
BrowseFolder [the Folders Pane of Windows Explorer]  and provide for the

This is something that has always bugged me about windows programming.
Maybe it belongs in a Windows Programming group, but here goes, in case
someone wants to answer.
Why does windows sometimes force me to use a function, and sometimes to send

I've read many articles about this feature, but I can't find any article that
can handle tooltips events. They only teach how to make it. I want to create
a ballon tooltip that can raise an event when user click the balloon. Can you
tell me how to do it ? Or at least, where I can ...

I'm trying to use Inet to get some files from a web server, but I got a
"Request timed out".  Does anyone know what the reason is and how to solve
it?
Thanks.

I have subclassed a RichTextBox so that I can do things that I couldn't do
with properties and methods.  The only messages I need to capture are
WM_PAINT and WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_RBUTTONDOWN.  All others are sent to the
original WNDPROC.

Is there an API which I can use to detect whether a file is locked?
(Our most common environment is NTFS under Win2K / XP / 2003. But is this
critical? Sometimes we'll need to check files on a UNIX box via a SAMBA file
share.)

My software runs fine with TSE using a Win2000 server but not with
WS2003. It's very slow when using graphical API functions. There's no prob
running directly the app on WS2003 PC.
What's up???

  I'd like to programm a form wich will be always on top of AutoCad and at
the same time having simultaneous focus with Acad main window. First part I
did with SetWindowPos but get stuck with second ( focus ) part...
Any hints?