VB Forum / Win API / March 2005

Hi evreyBody:
I set the text of internet explorer to www.yahoo.com by using sendmessage
function and here what I did:
SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, "http://www.yahoo.com/")

I am receiving an "Arithmetic Operation Overflow" error upon trying to call
the GetPrivateProfileString windows API function.  My code is below and the
values within the variables are as follows: psSection: "LogOn", psEntry:
"DBType", psDefault: "Microsoft SQL Server", psFileName ...

Dear Microsoft-Developers,
yesterday evening I firstly tried out to use the socket-APIs
'WSAEventSelect' to determine whethera socket has data to read, to write or
there is a connection request. As I was using the 'API-Viewer' to implement

I hope this is the appropriate newsgroup to post this.
Our application uses some sample code provided by knowledge-base article
316440 to allow us to set some permissions to our app for the Users
group. It has worked well for several years.

I would like to smooth out the rough edges in my image. I found a couple
suggestions via google that seemed too conprehensive and I only need a very
simple edge smoothing routine that does not have to be perfect.
I currently StretchBlt an image into a PictureBox and then I ...

I want to mark a rectangle area which contains various graphics (lines,
circles, text, etc.) and
change the background color for this rectangle area?
AutoRedraw = False

I've got a weird one.
My child forms consist of:
1)  Child
2)  PictureBox

How to make the entire program react to if you focuses or defocuses the
window
form_lost-/getfocus dont react when switching windows, I tried with
hooking WM_SETFOCUS and some other WM_-messages, any idea?

I created a small COM object that creates AVI files given a set of graphic
files the user pases to the COM object.  I based the COM object off code
from http://www.shrinkwrapvb.com.
'Here is a partial snippet of the code:

how To Get Remote Screen real time (Samp. Radmin Remote Administrator)
Please help Me.

Anyone know of a way (API, registry, hooks) to selectively
hide/disable Task Manager menus, menu items,  or tabs under Windows
NT4, 2000, and XP?
Thanks in advance,

Hey all,
I'm probably getting in over my head as I've never done API work, but...
Can anyone point to a way to let a .NET app subscribe to Windows events?
Specifically, I'd like to get notified whenever the topmost Window changes.

Years ago, I developed an application in Visual Basic 6.0 using a lot
the "OPEN" function.
Is there any way to get the operating system file handle today?.
On 16-bit systems the FileAttr function returns this information.

I was trying to read PNG file at CE and found out about using VOImage lib
and imgdecmp.dll
But I cannot find how to use VOImage lib!
Every article I found says there is tutorial at

Is it possible to call ( from within a 32 bit environment like VB6 ) a DLL
written in an old NE 16 bit Format?
I've tried as I had a 32 bit API dll ( not ActiveX ) and the error that VB6
raises is: Wrong File Name - that means besides that the format could be