VB Forum / Win API / January 2005

Hi. I'm looking for codes that print an exact custom page size directly into
a dot matrix printer (without creating a page form (WXP) nor using the
object "Printer", because isn't exact). I have to print from W98 and WXP to
a local or remote printer that may be conected into ...

Sir,
i am using postmessage api to send text to the applications. it works
very fine in many applications like msword, pagemaker etc. but it does
not work in quarkxpress. why this happens plz help me..... i have

I've been trying to use the helpful advice I've received from a number
of people on threads in this forum to create an app (actually w/VBA,
not
VB) within a CADD program.  The program opens two windows, and

By "right clicking" in MS explorer and selecting "open with" I can start my
application (exe), but I need to know (passing) the filename and path of the
selected file.
How can I do this?

Dear Sir,
How I can Increase or Decrease width of Font for Particular Text to Print on
Printer, Without Increase or Decrease in Height.
Sanjay Shah

Dear Sir,
How to Retrieve supported paper size by any printer.
Sanjay Shah

I want my app's users let decide whether they want
current users windows theme for the applications backcolors or
my application-defaults.
For XP am not sure whether the color for button-surface

I am now doing a project with VB6 which is something about image
processing. I want to ask if any API function that can directly find the
area (actually is no. of pixel) with an area.
Just like the concept of FloodFill. But FloodFill is used to fill a

I have a form with many images controls.
Now when users are not allowed to click on an image (imgA), I want to change
the image (picture, bitmap) of this control to disabled image as a
commandbutton with an image in disabled status.

I want to start the 'run as'-dialogue in my VB-code.
( manuell: SHIFT key and  right-click ).
Does anyone know the API-function?
Thanks

I am using the SHFileOperation API to copy some install files from the CD to
an install folder on the target computer. The code works fine on my machine,
but when I try to run it on a different machine it errors out saying, it
cannot read the files to copy. Here is the code below:

I'm looking for VB5/6 code to terminate a Windows XP process which I know is
name.
Thanks,

How can this be done? By genereting .tlb file, by what tool?
I'd like to create scheduled task programmatically from VB6 but have
discovered this is very extraordinary thing.
Great  thanks in advance.

for customizing Menubar color on an vb-form, i use
a combination of SetMenuInfo / GetMenu / pTranslateColor / CreateSolidBrush
in form-load, which works ok.
There's a situation were the user changes the color/theme

Is there a way to ensure that there is only one instance of a program
executing within a network? Perhaps I should ask what is/are the easiest and
most effective way(s). I think I need a mutex type of thing, except across
systems and a mutex only works within a system.