VB Forum / Win API / October 2004

I'm drawing text onto a hdc with DrawTextA API.
I want to have my text cut with the "..." at the end if it does not fit onto
the rectangle I pass into DrawTextA. No matter which flag I set, I couldn't
get this behaviour occur. I want this both at SingleLine texts and MultiLine

Looking for some help......I have a good knowledge of working with menu
API's, I wrote an app launcher that also could display the menubar, in
popup menu form, of any active window at the cursor point, or the MS Office  
toolbars. I got it to work with most of the apps I tested.

I am running into a weird problem with some customers that are running
Win98. My application passes the CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA constant or &H23 to
the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation function and everything works like a charm
under XP. The problem occurs when I try and run this code under ...

I am very new to visual basic and am using VB 6. I want to
be able to create a vb program that can 1st kill
certain .exe's from the task manager, then search for
specific files and update the files to be the most current

I'm using the Windows API in a VB5 program (behind the times but I'm too
cheap to upgrade).
I create a window with:
RegisterClass

I need to write a program that records all the keyboard keys the user clicked
in another program that i've made in orther to register everything the user
has made in the software. Is this possible? How?

Is there any way to detected if a device is connected? How would I query to
see the device is connected to network. My application is mobile and mostly
on wireless connection but it could be wired as well. Any Help would be
appreciated.

I have a problem. (sorry for my english)
if you delete a file in windows, it will moved in recyclebin or delete
(also in LAN). Some of my Users are often deleting files they need
later. I need so much time to recover these files, so i need other

In the application that I'm writing, I need to show a form that needs to be
a child of an external application.  When the external application is
launched, this form is shown and set as a child of the external application
using the SetParent API.  This part is working fine.

I have written two standard apps (not ActiveX) in VB6 SP6.  These apps
communicate with one another via SendMessage API utilizing hidden text boxes
and WM_GETTEXT / WM_SETTEXT.
The scenario is the "server" app has a few hidden textboxes (channels) which

I'm using the code from the "Shell an application and wait asynchronously
for completion" topic on vbAccelerator's website and it works awesome;
however, my only complaint is that since what I'm calling is a .bat file,
the command line window shows and I don't want this.  If it has ...

Greetings every1,
This thing has been done many a times, but I cant get it now. Just how can i
right align text in a command button. I used the following code
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA"

I have a VB project that requires the search of value names and value data
in Windows regisry, displays the results and delete them.  I can search only
one entry each time but do not know how to search multiple entries at one
time without entering them into the textbox.  Is there a ...

I have a Visual Basic 6.0 program that needs to display a simple monochrome
waveform in a picturebox.  I created a bitmap and then set up array of
PointAPIs with the indexes of my waveform and then used PolyLineTo to draw
the waveform onto the bitmap.  I set up scrolling using a ...

is there a way to let a ControlTipText appear in two or more lines? I tried
with   "abcde" & vbCr & "fghil"  but it seems not to work.