VB Forum / Win API / April 2005

Is there any reliable way of sending User Type structures between two
processes?
I have tried SendMessage and subclassed eahc processses WindowProc() and it
works but I am obviously it seems runnning into the limitations of the

Earlier this year, in a thread in this newsgroup I asked whether it might be
possible to use SendMessage instead of SendKeys to set the protection for a
VBA project.
Well, so near, but yet so far am I.

There must be a simple way to address the windows directories.  I'm trying
to copy a file using vb6 to the windows system32 folder.  How do I find this
folder, regardless of where windows is installed? -Carl

I have a request for a feature, and I'm sure it's possible, but not sure how
to get it done.
Our users will have a tif image that I bring up and display for them -- it
is black and white, the floorplan of a building.  They do operations on it

Hi again,
I have an application that is using 2 picture controls to compare two JPEG
files and paints on the first one  what is on the second and missed on the
first one. For this I'm doing a pixel comparision using just the methods and

I'm using VB6 and am trying to find list of software installed on remote
networked PC's. I'm OK with interrogating a local PC's registry etc. but am
unsure about doing it for remote PC's.
I want to interrogate PC's with various versions of windows including 9x.

does anyone know how could I obtain the domain name for logged user?
It means domain name if user is authenticated by domain controller or a
computer name for a local acount.
I can manage it for NT based system using ActiveDs.WinNTSystemInfo, but it

Please HELP!  I am a total beginner. I have a web application that queries a
sql database and then returns only on row to a dataset.  This row is then
manipulated for an indeterminate amount of time. (this is a work order app)
so I chose to use the dataset to accomplish this.  ...

I found SendMessage-Messages for nearly every case, but how can I tell
windows which compressor it should use to compress the file? The
#WM_CAP_GET_VIDEOFORMAT message seems not to manage this.
I can use #WM_CAP_DLG_VIDEOCOMPRESSION to select one by the user, but

shfilecopy returns an error code 1223 in my application, where can I read
more about this function and a description of its parameters and error
codes?

Hi everbody,
In Visual Basic we have ChDrive and ChDir. But what on a networdk when only
a UNC (//server/c/data/mydata) path is given ??
Is there a API who can do the same as ChDrive and ChDir in 1 call with a unc

Hi, I'm trying to read parts of a file which is about 4GB using VB6. Using
the Get statement
Get [#]filenumber, [recnumber], varname
I soon run into problems. The recnumber is a long which only works up to

I've got code that  creates a Word template and sets a project password.
I'm now trying to adapt the code to Excel.
Other than the few Word/Excel specific statements, I expect that all the
other

need function that can compare 2 bmp files for equality. can this function also
compare portions of bitmaps if they are different size ?
any help will be appreciated.
thanks

Using, the Freeimage DLLs in Visual Basic, why does the Save to Bitmap
format work, but the Save to GIF format does not?
For example, if you load a TIF thus:
dib = FreeImage_Load(FIF_TIFF, strImageOutputPath & "\" &