VB Forum / Win API / May 2005

How can I access the windows address book having installed Outlook Express
only (without Office, Outlook, etc.)?  At Microsoft I only found a C or C++
example but no pure VB/WinAPI code, and googling for WAB didn't help me.

Perhaps slightly off topic, but here goes anyway...
I saw a reference to High Dynamic Range a couple of days ago in
another group after which I discovered "HDR Shop". However, I'd like
to "roll my own" because the above program has some limitations.

does anyone know if it's possible to retrieve the reolution of a bitmap
image using VB6 and maybe an API call ? I can get the images width, height
and color depth but need to fing the amount of pixels per inch.
Cheers !

I am using the Polygon API in an ActiveX dll that also includes all
the VB PrinterObject.
Everything works fine and "honor" the ScaleMode except polygon.
I use Acrobat PDF as my "print preview".  All coordinates for the

short version:
how to drag and drop objects on the form (purpose is to change the
position of the specific control)
long version:

I've tried to get an answer to this on a couple of other newsgroups without
success - I'm beginning to suspect that some API wizardry is required, and
you guys are the ones to advise me. Apologies for multi-posting - I promise
I'm only doing it one group at a time!

I posted this on another VB newsgroup but didn't get any response.
Since I assume this would involve working with API's, I'm hoping
someone here might be able to help me get started.
I want to write a program (VB6) that can monitor the activity on a

   I am designing a form that can accept a file from local computer and
make a duplicate on the server computer.
I used GetOpenFileName function to retrieve the file name that I want to
upload,

To make video conference I'm using capSetCallbackOnFrame to capture
video. The problem is how can I show captured frames to user. I
understand that it has to be some standard API, but I can't find it.
Thanks for answers!

I found an example in the net where a keylogger catches all keys systemwide
calling each millisecond GetAsyncKeyState.
This is, of course, wasting ressources, 30% cpu time at my pc. Is there an
example available using a systemwide hook so that I don't need 30% cpu time

From a vb 6 application I need to spawn off a configurable program - a way of adding some extra functionality to a GUI
that is up for substantial periods.  Because I need it to be asynchronous, and also be able to terminate the spawned
process if it takes too long (memory & ...

I'm trying to load a .reg file created by export from regedit.exe. I
tried RegLoadKey, RegRestorekey etc., but nothing works. I also tried
RegSaveKey but I get just an empty file. I'm doing this under WinXP SP2.
Any help? Thanks

i wanted to use LogonUser() and CreateProcessAsUser() in my
sandbox-activeX-dll for use on a asp-webpage (on IIS5).
unfortunately i ran into the following problem:
- when i call LogonUser() with LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK, i get a handle i

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get the full username
of the current user logged onto a remote machine.
Basically I want to be able to pass a network machine name to a function and
it returns the user's full network name :

Is there any other API randomize method?
I ask because I keep getting a wrong value for the following below:
Beds(BedCounter).alarms = Int((0 - 2) * Rnd) + 1
I keep getting -1 when the range is 0 to 2 (i.e. 0,1,2).