VB Forum / Win API / February 2005

Does anyone know why the following code yields incorrect memory info?
On a 1GB RAM system it reports 1,021MB, seems to be missing 3MB.
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Private Type LARGE_INTEGER

I'd like to know if I can iterate through the menu structure of Windows
Explorer
(and how to do it).
This is part of another question (which I'll be posting soon enough), but

The API declared in the sample code below (from within VB6) will normally
hide the mouse pointer when run in previous versions of Windows, but in XP,
it is a bit capricious.  While it will work, there would seem to be no
predictability to it.  Can anyone tell me why it no longer ...

I have been learning to apply the isotropic filter matrix to bmp images
(major help received from Mike S several months ago) and would like to
continue on and try to determine objects based on the edge detection output.
I would like to try to determine and objects exist in an image ...

Is there any one who could guid me that How can I convert my BMP files to
JPG and allowing the compression.
Thanks,
Bilal

How can I detect if the user pressed the enter key?  I need some code
in the KeyPress event of my combobox so that when they enter a new
value and press enter, it executes some code I have.
Thanks

How do I Handle and trap an Access Violoation error instead of having it call
my UnhandledExceptionFilter routine where it doesn't necessarily know where
the problem arose?
Basically, I just want it to fall into the specific routine's own On Error

Hi I have created an ini file using API functions for writing and getting the
info. back, what I am trying to find out is what is the best way to edit it
afterwards.
Please can someone help me with this.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
I've got a background image that is basically the floorplan of a building.
Black and white, and HUGE.
I allow users to "draw" wall segments.  This means they clilck on the start

Using VB6, I'm trying to convert code that used standard GDI stuff to GDI+.
I've hit a wall as far as I can tell.  I'm using a wrapper for GDI+ from
vbaccelerator.com.
I'm trying to create a blank metafile.  The only "CreateMetafile" functions

Question #1:
The event viewer stops logging if the max size is achieved and not
configured to over-write. How can a program intercept/monitor messages
sent to the event viewer? Which API call/function serves to assist?

I've used the ansi createdirectory function
Declare Function CreateDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias _
    "CreateDirectoryA" (ByVal lpPathName As String, _
    lpSecurityAttributes As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) As Long

Okay, I'm sure this is just one of those "because that's the way it is
things" but I thought I'd ask the question out here anyway.  I'm using GDI+
to create a pen object.  I'm using the GDI+ wrapper from vbaccelerator.com
if that makes any difference.

Dear Sir,
How to Print Overlapped Text using WinApi Function. Currently I am using
following functions to Print Document with Customised Logical Fonts.
OpenPrinter

Is it possible to detect mouse scroll with windows API like detecting mouse
clicking?
I am developing a software to detect whether a user locked a computer and
left.