VB Forum / Win API / March 2005

I've developed a small VB app that runs without a UI as a tray icon. It
still shows up in Task Manager under "Applications" though. I only want it
to show under "Processes". How can I accomplish this? Show in Taskbar is set
to False for the app's one and only form, which I show when ...

  I would like to customize the Save As dialog to have the look as in
Windows 98 .
  My environment is in VB 6 / Windows XP,2000 . In the new OS , the Save As
dialog has a bar in the left hand side , I found in MSDN that it can be

I have one question, please help me if you can.
For me this is a BIG problem.
I search web pages for solution, but i can't find the real explanation.
I need video filters (to set brightness, contrast...) in my application.

Hi, there!
I'm new on this group and my english is not so good. So, sorry on my
gramatical errors.
I want to capture Video frame (from AVI or other movie files). I'm using MCI

Been trying to get a unicode string from a unicode saved .ini file back to
VB witout much success (I need multi-lingual capabilities), (using
GetPrivateProfileStringW api). I know about how VB implicitly changes the
string to Ansi when the function is called, so have been trying to ...

In WinXP I can do a search for a file and it will give me results.
I can then right-click on a file and a menu item "Open Containing Folder"
will appear. I can click on this item and the folder will be opened and
the file that is referenced will get the focus.

Mike, at startup I would like to use an abbreviated version of your GDI form
code to test the host machine's graphic capability. Specifically I want to
know if the machine will be able to display an 800x600x24 JPEG with a
compressed file size no larger than 350 Kb. I am trying to ...

how can I create a new windows user account in VB6 code and add it to the
admin group?
Thanks in advance.

Can any one toled me that,how can I use win32 api to perform the same action
when you press the ENTER button in the keyboard?
any help will be appreciated
regard's

I'm having a bit of trouble with the GetParent API call:
According to MSDN:
"The GetParent function retrieves a handle to the specified window's parent
or owner. "

I have this code which read if the ineternet explorer window is open after
that open www.yahoo.com in differnt window:
       Dim Explorer As InternetExplorer
   Set Explorer = New InternetExplorer

What am i doing wrong?
passing LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY to getlocalinfo in kernel32 is always returning
"United States" on my PC even though in control panel's regional settings
window i have location set as Canada.

I am tryin to create an internet connection and download a particular
file from a specified URL programmatically using VB on a WIN 95
machine.
The code that I use is as follows:

I have a pc with a smartcard connected. From time to ttime the smartcard
service stops.
Reason unknown.
How can I check for the status & eventually restart the service from a VB6

I just want to change the date/time stamp of a folder (not file!)
I don't want to use the FSO.Object
I've posted already - may be; my question was not interpretable.
So far...