VB Forum / Win API / February 2005

I am using GetPrinter() and SetPrinter() to change printer preferences.  The
only other function I could find that changes them seems to only apply to
the current VB session.  I am using VB 6.0.  We are wondering if there is a
different way to change preferences like orientation and ...

Is there a way other than GetModuleNameEx to determine the image name that
belongs to a process of a give ID? Some of our clients still run Win98 where
GetModuleNameEx  is not supported.
Thanks for any help,

I'm experimenting getting text in a window using various methods.
I was able to send a WM_GetText message to one of the child notepad windows
and successfully, but the text I'm really trying to read from is a terminal
emulation application, which contains no child windows.   I can ...

I am trying to build a simple solution that upon button or key press it sends
a string to the com port to activate a relay.  So far I have found a code
snipit on MSDN about how to write to the Com port in VB, and That helped
tremendously and works great on my XP + 2000 machines, ...

    I have an executable file (C code compiled with MFC) which I have no
source code. I want to run this file from within a VB6 program.
   This executable has some text boxes requiring numeric data, check boxes
to be checked and command buttons to be pressed to run. I want to ...

It appears as if the API function OleTranslateColor is in both oleaut32.dll
and olepro32.dll.  I know that oleaut32.dll is for NT 4 and greater systems,
but would it be safe to assume that the older olepro32.dll will still be
around for a while?

I would like to change or remove the selected node backcolor in a treeview.  
It currently changes it to blue but I woulike like to disable that.  I can't
find a property, is there a way to do this?
Thanks

I'm developing a dll in VB.Net that extracts and enumerates all of the icon
formats within a .ico file.
I think I've got it going pretty good up until I get to the point where I
have to read in the DIB portions. This is where I'm a little confused.

hi Group,
Every once-in-a-while (on win98se), my desktop icons
get "scrambled".
There are two different situations of this, which may be

Some time ago I have read a way to show the sizing handles of a control at
runtime, as far as I remember using SendMsg. This may work for built in
controls like textboxes and so on. But now I want to build my own user
control which is not rectangular, it's a segment of a circle ...

I'm using a NTSC video capture hardware on a xp machine. When I run my
application (VB5) I have to enter the capture properties dialog box to set
the video standard from PAL to NTSC. Every day after rebooting the same
procedure. How can I set the video standard programmatically ...

Somebody knows how to mute/demute a mixer channel?
And, How to get the volume and mute value of a channel?
I found how to change the volume but not how to get his actual value
I'm trying to mute the line-in and down the wave channel and viceversa

I am calling ftpPutFile  on VB6 apps to put some files on a remote server.
Test server : ftpPutFile works great
Prod server :  sometimes works fine sometimes it hungs (takes extra time to
put the file )

Is there a way to disable the a network connection programmtically?

Why is it that in this block of code:
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
   Dim currentDir As String
   Dim longSysPath As String