VB Forum / Win API / November 2004

While resizing VB.ListBox with LBS_MULTICOLUMN style set VB vanishes or displays App Error ???
I have made custom draw ListBox that catches WM_CREATE event and set my own style (LBS_MULTICOLUMN), after what subclassing is over
(in test/debug project).
Well true is in test/debug ...

I needed to write *text* onto the MSChart Active-X Control.
The controls object-model doesn't allow to place axis-Y-labels
at any desired point of/near the axis, they're always
positioned in a centered manner.

I have the following problem trying to put same little bitmap in the menu of
my application.
THIS CODE WORKS PERFECTLY
'Get the menuhandle of my menu:

please if any one can help:
I am trying to get the Mac addressof the NIC from an API function or any
hardware function but not the functions that read the Mac from the WMI or any
place that can be changed, I want a function that goes directly to the NIC

I now have a string "<text>My Word</text>"
How can I display "My Word" only in the textbox and the content of the
string still remains unchange?
Thanks,

I have a .Net app that uses InternetDial to make an internet connection in
order to send information to a web service.  Before doing this it checks the
conncetion state and only tries to connect if there is not a connection
present.  However I am having one problem with this.  If ...

I noticed that viewing some of my JPEG files using Notepad
the first character is always chr(255).  Is this valid for
all JPEG files?
I don't have any MPEG files readily available.  What is

what is the func name doing MAX MIN in VB ?
thanks

Have an API routine that has this bit of code in it:
       'Get the window text
       sWindowTitle = Space$(255)
       R = GetWindowText(hWnd, sWindowTitle, 255)

I'd like my Form background to be the same color as the Windows Desktop. No
problem, there's a specific color mask for this: &H80000001&. I use this
'logical color' to set the background of my Form, Checkboxes, etc.
dynamically at run time.

I have a little program that writes a few characters to
MPEG files to make them unviewable.  More or less like a
simple encrypt/decrypt program.  I run into a "Runtime
Error 75 - Path/File access error" if I have previewed the

DrawText doesn't draw text like original VB.ListBox function when TabStops are set!
do I need to implement in my CustomDraw procedure for drawing items with this TABSTOPS or it is done by some other API function ?
priority: low
thanks for any comment

I'm new here so if I'm doing anything wrong, please alert me of it and
excuse me :)
Anyhow...
I'm working on a project that reads the memory of the target process.

My experience with Win API and VB isn't really much. I have these questions
in my mind since I started learning API.
There are so many possibilities for every different API functions, where and
how could I find such detailed info so that I can utilize the function fully?

I'd like to merge files like I'm used to on the command line:
copy /b file1.xyz + file2.xyz file.xyu
Is there a way to achive this with API function or am I stuck with the VB
shell command?