VB Forum / Win API / April 2005

When I lock the Word app window with the code below, the lock does not hold
unless I put a breakpoint on, say, the With appWord statement following the
commented out Sleep statement.
Since it worked using a breakpoint, I ASSuMEd that I could use Sleep to

all of my image processing.  Currently, what I do is I use temporary
files, to make this happen.  I pass the PictureBox's handle and the
temporary file to the C routine.  The C routine, takes the handle, does

I'm using GetOpenFileName for the open dialog, hooking it
(SetWindowsHookEx) to put an image preview on the dialog.  Works fine
on Win98, but not with Win2K or XP.  Although I can make it set
thumbnail view for W2K and XP, I would prefer the hooked preview pane

How do you get the the Control Array Index using WindowFromPoint?
WindowFromPoint yields the control hwnd and from this you can obtain the
rectangle bounds, but HOW do you get a property of the control once the hwnd
is obtained?

Hi *.*
I want to activate a certain MDI child in Code? I've read about :
Child.SetFocus, Child.zorder or sending WM_COMMAND message with lParam = 0
and wParam = 32768 plus the number of the form to activate.

Are there any api's which give info reg a connected NIC card and its details
thanks in advance
Manoj

Can anybody tell me how to access already opened webpage from visual basic 6 ?
Ex. I want to extract title or form tags of a webpage.

Hi. Maybe it's stupid question but i have just started learning API with
Charles Petzold.
I read that if we add WS_VSCROLL | WS_HSCROLL into createwindow f.
windows unlocks scrolls in window.

This may seem like a stupid question, but how do I go about converting a
FreeImage library dib to a IPicture object and vice versa?

I want to use a USB web camera in combination with a projector to control
the mouse coursor using a laser pointer.
The projector projet computer screen on a Big Screen. The web-camera looks
at the Big Screen and see the laser dot on the BigScreen and determine their

How can I start and stop any process by using win api?
Any help will be appreciated
regard's
Husam

I'm going to write a new application which will have tons of code but only a
small part of the code is used at a time - the other parts could loaded,
run, and unloaded if I could do this. I know that in former times languages
could do overlaying to save memory. Well, I also know ...

How can I use Unicode characters in a menu caption and a form caption
in a VB6 application? I read somewhere that I need to use sublassing.
Can you provide any piece of code?

I am trying to get an error code from the system when a file can not be
successfully be copied using the CopyFileA API.  Here is some stripped down
code to show the problem.
Private Declare Function apiCopyFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "CopyFileA" (ByVal

My application has files/folders dragdrop functionality similar to Windows
Explorer. The only problem is that if the drag starts from my application
and if I drop on the CD-RW dive in XP ( with CD writing enabled) , nothing
happens. But if I start dragging from Windows Explorer ...