VB Forum / Win API / January 2005

Dim a as string
Dim b() as Byte
Dim c as String
a = "abcdef"

Hi, guys, let's see if someone can help me with this, i got a program that
needs to do some clicking in another form, that form has 2 buttons, The
first button that the caption is always the same( i got no problem finding
this one using FindWindowEx ), but the second one the last ...

Is it possible (using API) to flatten out the standard VB menu and just draw
a 1 pixel border all around?
Thanks,
Ivan

I am writing a speciallized FTP client. I use the functions FtpFindFirstFile
and FtpFindNextFile to setup the file list present on the current directory
at the FTP server. It works fine for the File names and File sizes, but I
cannot get the DateTime info.

I have a DLL that is used by Word.
GetOpenFileName is used in a number of places.
When I pass the handle of a Form to the OPENFILENAME structure,
GetOpenFileName gets centered over the Form.

is there any way to close a handle of a file in use?
I want to delete some files but some of them may be in use, and I need to
delete it anyway.
is it possible?

I created very simple dll (vc++) which has three functions (start, stop and
initialization). it starts capturing sound from soundblaster and when the
buffer is filled with the data, dll calls VB calback function (passed with
initialization) and passes the buffer size (integer ...

I am new to Win32 Api. I am developing an application. This is similar to
Babylon dict. I want  to show my application from task bar when user selects
a word in any of the application that he is using and presses shift + Left
mouse click. How do i approch this.

I need to find a particular string, from a text file.
Can you please tall me which API, can help me?
Thank you.
~Divya.

I'm trying to catch the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message. How do I know if it's
REBOOT or SHUTDOWN (POWER DOWN). I was able to get the ENDSESSION_LOGOFF but
don't know how to differentiate the other two. Please help. Thanks.

I am looking to scan a large amout of documents. I believe I will end up with
a bunch of documents that contain 30-50 pages. They will come from the
scanner as  large tif files. I would like to break them up into a tif file
for each page. I'm pretty good with VB and would like to ...

Wrote a VB6 block excryption program using the API. The function declared as:
Private Declare Function CryptAcquireContext Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias
"CryptAcquireContextA" _
   (ByRef phProv As Long, _

We need the corresponding nummerical values (DWORD) for the follwing constants.
We have not been able to find them i any include structure (for Visual
Studio 6.0).
GetVolumeInformation.lpFileSystemFlags

I`m writing VB aplication that requires to change it`s process user after
typeing proper user name and password.
Very impotrant to me is allow this option to every user without any
additional privileges. I`ve tried with LogOnUser but under 2000 it requires

I am using VB6 with a control that prints its output to the printer.  I am
trying to add extra text, like a page header.  The control has no method to
allow me to do this, but it does expose the handle to the printer, just
before it prints to that device context.