VB Forum / Win API / January 2005

Is there a way to address a class object's data set consisting of UDT
variables and arrays together in one 'unit' and to refer to it by something
like a handle ?
My class object has several UDT variables and arrays representing a special

Is there a way to get the form object from the hwnd?
My idea is to get the hwnd with the getfocus, the with
some strange alchemy job do a set myobj =
and the use myobj to call some public method that it

Is there any possible that I can capture my network traffic using VB6?
I want to know how many packet each computer send out, the sourc computer
IP, destination comput IP or DNS name, protocols used, etc. I want to
monitor it dynamicly, so that I can know which computer got affected ...

I'm using RegLoadKey to load a user hive. This works great, no problem. The
problem stems when I attempt to close the opened key with RegUnloadKey. I
always get an error indicating a permissions issue (Error 5). Because the OS
is NT based I obtain the necessary privilege to load ...

I know that WM_COPYDATA is a special Windows message, but not everyone
knows. See:
VBForums.com - send info between apps
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=315463

I'm trying to write a program to play a wave file.  I need to determine if
the volume settings and/or if the sound is muted.  whenever I make a call to
the WaveOutGetVolume API function it returns a value of -1 for the volume no
matter what the "muted" state or volume level is ...

Hello group,
I hope that someone can help me with this problem. I use Windows XP
Prof. SP2 and VB 5 and I want to convert a string sid to a binary sid.
But it doesn't work. I always get a return code of 0 and GetLastError

I've got a StdPicture-object containing an icon-file (32pix- and
16pix-version) and I want to draw it using DrawIconEx:
DrawIconEx UserControl.hdc, 0, 0, Me.Icon, 16, 16, 0, 0, DI_NORMAL
but unfortunately DrawIconEx takes the 32pix version and shrinks it to

I'm working on a licensing subsystem. In order to do this I need some way to
lock a license to the computer it is issued to. I've decided to use the MAC
Address of the machine's network card as a unique computer ID. (I know this
may not be absolute, but it's close enough and ...

Ray,
happy new year to you too,
after the holidays I am trying to fix the problem of my missing lines.
I tried your suggestions without any luck: the interlace option should

There was a sample program called VBCrypto that lived in the "A
Cryptographic Filter Box Class in Visual Basic" Technical article. I have
the article and sample program but I can't find them in the current online
MSDN, so I can't refer to them. However I think the lengths of the ...

I have a project that has a student accessing test folders. When the user
logs on, they use a logon and password set for the testing station. When the
lockworkstation is called, the desktop and taskbar are removed. When the
lockworkstation is called, I want only the administator ...

I have an application in which I have to shell to an external application
and wait for the application to quit before I can continue running my code.
I am doing this using CreateProcessA and WaitForSingleObject APIs.  This
part works great.  The problem is that the application ...

Is it possible to get the text of the different panels of the status bar
that belongs to an external application?
How?

i'm trying to set the default printer in a vb 6.0 application on windows
2000.
i notice there is a setdefaultprinter api available but i can't find how to
declare it.