VB Forum / Win API / May 2005

Is there anyway I can prohibit the dropping of a usercontrol onto certain
hosts . For eample I want to force the usercontrol to be parented by a grid
and not a form ... how could I do that ... all from within the usercontrol
Thanks

I've two programs in execution, one is posting a WM_CLOSE to the other to
close it but it is not working, but if instead posting I use TerminateProcess
the second ends rigth away. I want to post message to close databases and do
some stuff before it shuts down.

is it possible to get the selected text from microsoft word with windows api
?

I need to know how to get the name of a user who is currently looged onto a
Windows 2000 machine. I posted an article on this newsgroup and was given a
link by Randy Birch.
However when i use the code from his site, if the computer name is

If I have an image stored in a variable is it possible to resize that image
before I load it into a PictureBox? If I have declared a picture as:
Dim myPict as stdPicture
Set myPict = LoadPicture("A:\1.BMP")

I hope this is in the right area...if not I apologize.
I wrote an app that needs to add a few small strings in the registry. The
problem is, when run under the standard "user" rights, I do not have access
to add/remove/modify anything in the registry. It needs to add a few values

anyone?
Ed

Hi All, does anyone know how to get RealGetWindowClass to work with windows
that are themed. It works fine when the app is not themed. Or is there
another way to get the 'true' vb class name of a control if it's in a themed
app.

I have a script that I use to check to see if a machine is connected and
online. I am in the process of writing a new vb.net app that needs this same
kind of functionality. Is there any way to achieve this? This script uses
ping but if something else can provide the same kind of ...

I've got a vbscript that will delete user profiles from XP (c:\Documents and
Settings)
This vbs doesn't work remotely , if can please modify it to delete
user profiles (in c:\Documents and Settings) remotely in XP PCs. The one

Ok I have some files that contain DXT3 or DXT1 images and I wish to make an
app that can view or extract them very easily. Now I found some C++ code that
I got to work in C# (using unsafe code). However, I'm having trouble getting
it to work properly in VB.NET.

Im using the htmlhelp api to call help files from my VB application.
If i press F1 in the application the help file is called (whiout me
doing anything) and shows up correct. If i want to go back to the
application window i just clik on it.

Is there anyway using API, that I can get SPD (Serial Presence Detect)
info from my RAM modules? BTW I'm opposed to using WMI, it just adds
un-needed overhead to programs.

Hello Winapi group,
I am using WinXp. In Win Explorer if you have a folder of mp3s, WE
will allow you display a host of options eg. year, bitrate, duration
etc.

First, let me say that the olelib and task scheduler provide a very neat and elegant solution to the
task at hand (scheduling a named task through VB).
The trouble we are running into is that, on some machines, the task scheduler object returns an
error 429 (ActiveX control can't ...