VB Forum / Win API / December 2004

 I am able to detect of power off is active or not using
SystemParametersInfo() and SPI_GETPOWEROFFACTIVE. but how do I find out if
the monitor is currently turned off or not?
thanks

I have a string and I need to cut off the right-most text up until a "\"
character.  How do I do this in VB 6
Thanks

All,
I'm fairly new to programming and I need to modify an existing VB6 app that
runs in a Windows 2000 Terminal Server environment.
Basically, I need this VB6 program to display a pop-up message on the screen

I tried to 'make' a combobox with a treeview instead of the list by
intecepting the CBN_DROPDOWN showing my treeview and setting the focus there
which made the combobox list go away (in reality it was a *bit* more complex
than that but that's the gist). It was great until I tried it ...

I have a variable which contains a pointer to the actual variable I
want to access i.e.
    variable = pointer -> actual variable
In other words I'd like to do something like (I'm typing this live so

Not really a problem but more of a question.
I see how to use the GetDriveType API to get
the type of drive for a letter such as c:\
Is there a way to get the media type inside a drive.

How can I get the Hdc of screen in VB.net or C#? It seems to be strange in
VB.net!!
I know in VB6,I can use getdc api to get Hdc of screen,but in Vb.net no such
a function. even under the graphics class the getHdc() is invisible to the

I use the following function to remove invalid chars in a string before I
use a post command to send to the backend:
InternetCanonicalizeUrl(sText$, buffer, BufLen, ICU_DECODE)
I'd like to be able to un-escape a string that has already had the bad chars

I need to create a dll in VB that must have a entry point function to
instance some ActiveX objects.
I tried to set in Project Properties -> Startup Object 'Sub main' and
creating a module with this function:

I have a picture box with label and lines inside.
I need to print the picture, but i don't want to print the label in a
graphical way but in a text way because I need to have a pcl file of my
picture. The text in the label would be not so good if I printed it in a

I have been searching for a solution but cannot find anything.
Is it possible to capture information that has been sent through the
Messenger Service (Net Sends and Alerts) in VB6?
I have found a log of resources for sending but nothing for capturing

Our VB application need the check the users password in the app login
against the users password in the domain.
The user just enters a username and password. If the user exists on the
domain the password will be checked against the domain password for that

 I'm developing application that using a lot of different APIs.
 It works fine when started from VB project.
 But when I made and run as standalone it generate errors
when executiong APIs.

I have a MDI parent window with a menu bar. When another window (that's not
a child window) gets the focus, the menu bar is grayed out. I'm looking for
a way to keep the menu enabled.
So far I've tried subclassing the hWnd I receive with

 This may not be directly related to graphics api, but I was wondering how
I should go about splitting an mpeg stream and saving to files.
Any help appreciated.
thank you