VB Forum / Win API / April 2005

2 questions for someone who is willing to help.
1. i'm looking in the API text viewer in vb where i usually pull up
functions in the past, but cannot seem to find the subject function. Where do
i find it?

There is a VScroll control named VS1 on the form.
User can change VS1.Value by clicking the control.When clicked, the control
raises event VS1_Change() or VS1_Scroll().
My question is :

I'm working on a project where I need to mimic the “Look In” combo box in the
windows Search application.  I have most of it figured out using the
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation and SHGetFileInfo API’s.  I can’t figure out how
to 1) get the “My Computer” icon using the SHGetFileInfo ...

We all use usual pictures like BMP,JPG,..
in menus ,wanna know if any one knows
a way to add animated pictures (GIF) to menus.
i am  not searching for a $ control

Where can I find the latest version of Microsoft supplied win32api.txt?
Where is MSFT's latest API documentation?
I had a heck of a time locating the value for a CSIDL_ constant yesterday.
There's a web page that lists the names, but no pointers to the values.

Hi i dont know if im going down the totaly wrong street here. Im trying to
find a way to globally track mouse movement. I have been trying to find what
api i need to use but currently i have not found anything that helps me.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

   Could someone please explain the whole
shebang regarding the best way to use
strings in repetitive operations? For instance,
if I need to use InStr(".", sText) thousands of

I have an app, and in this app there is a timer that checks for items to do
notifications.
The notifications are shown by a borderless form in the bottom right corner.
I use the API to specify always on top (TOPMOST).

Is there any API to:
1. Capture the screen as a bitmap of the whole desktop (the current active
application)
2. Capture a window (through an hwnd) of a particular window (even if it's a

The Internet Explorer offers only 4 zones like Internet, Local Internet, and
so on. Is there an API which allows to add and define user defined zones AND
which can be used from VB, so that I can add some additional zones with
different rights for my own groups of URLs ? Can I ...

I've create a dropdown calendar window which works just like the
dropdown part of the combobox. I'm using a MonthView control as the
calendar. As you all know if you click outside of the dropdown window
the dropdown window disappears. My control work like that. However, the

I have a printer which I control in a telnet session (i have to type in
commando's like start printing, stop printing, etc...) The printer in turn
returns it's error messages to the console (f.i. 07 Apr 05 12:07:52 +0200
PS   C073 - Tray 3 feeder failed to feed sheet from stack).

Perhaps someone can show me the technology required to perform the following
using vb6 as the core language.
I 'm using an application that largely resides on my computer, but
communicates

Hallo NG,
Using the function
   Thread = GetCurrentThreadID()
the following error message is generated:

Does anyone know if it is possible to use the API functions for a DFS in VB6
(eg. NetDfsGetInfo etc) and if so, where do I get the function definitions
(declares etc.) from?
Thanks,