VB Forum / Win API / December 2004

I have a text box filled with text from a file.
When the user scrolls the text downwards
with the Scrollbar I need to be able to get the
amount of lines that go hidden in the top

I'm trying to make a Word Wraping feature in my program, so that by the
click of a button, I can change the scrollbar settings to a specified text
box, just like how Windows Notepad does it.
I tried doing this:

The Toolbar Customize method can be activated by a mouse double click.
I'm trying to trigger this method Customize method in code.
I do NOT want to use Toolbar.Customize as I need to capture the handle for
the Customize event from code.

I want to write a single byte at some cluster number . How is it possible ??

Does anyone know the VB statement that will set explorer to show hidden
files?  I am getting tired of going through the 5 clicks necessary to turn on
the global showing of hidden files withing explorer.  I would like to write a
VB program that does this so I can just make a ...

I'm trying to create a VB friendly API declaration for
UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices. However, I cannot seem to locate the DLL
that supports this function. The only reference in the MSDN indicates the
function is declared in newdev.h. Reviewing that file does not reveal what

Hi all and thanks for any help,
I have tried searching through the newsgroups and can not find what I
am after.
The question:

VB6 - I just stumbled across this. It seems that defining a method parmeter
as ByVal suppresses compile time type checking for the parameter on method
calls.
This won't compile:

A friend of mine has created a small delphi appl. and he is using
sendmessage as a method of communication with other applications. Now we
are trying to get his appl. to communicate with my VB6 activeX dll. As
fare as I know, there should be a peekmessage method i windows, that

My shell is opening up a command line with arguments and executing it
perfectly; however, regardless of what parameter I use for displaying
the command window, i.e. vbHide, vbMinimizedNoFocus, etc...it does not
seem to be working.  I've tried the above two that I just mentioned

I have two computers - A & B.
"A" contains a shared application and a shared binary file.
"B" loads the program from "A" and accesses the binary file stored on "A".
When "A" is updating a section of the binary file I want to stop "B"

How do i get the results of a search on the internet to post the results
to one page for viewing? Say I create a program to search the internet
with several search engines and I want the results posted to one page
for viewing?

I have an application that I would like to call an API function in to
determine
if a particular application is running independently so that I don't shell
out

Hi All, I am using the following code
'API to open the file I specify
Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" _
       (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _

I may be in the wrong group -- but generally, I would like to use VB to store
a file; Excel, Access etc... and then be able to save the file from VB to a
disk via command button(sort of like an installer, only more simple).
(BTHW, I have researched OLE pretty hard and nothing... ...