VB Forum / Win API / June 2005

In a ActiveX Control project,the UserControl form is always rectangle.
If I want it to be a round rectangle appearance when the Active Control is
used,What should I do?
Thanks a lot!

I have this Visual Basic .Net code:
Dim bmX As Bitmap
Dim gX As Graphics
Dim penX As New Pen(Color.Black, 1)

When you change the window title on a form using the Caption property, does
VB use WM_SETTEXT or another means? The reason I ask is because I have
another app that monitors window text changes (amongst other things) and
works for all windows apart from VB forms.

I have an application that uses many InputBoxes. I need to be able to
pop up an on-screen keyboard when the user touches or clicks into the
text box field on the InputBox. I have this working for normal
TextBox_Click event on forms.

In a ActiveX Control Project,there is a Module file(*.bas) except a Control
file(*.ctl).
The UserControl has Private Methods and Public Methods.
If I want to call these methods in the Module file,What should I do?

Hi Friends,
I'm using following APIs to create custom event log in windows
RegisterEventSource ("", strEventSource)
ReportEvent (lngHwnd, LogType, 0&, EventID, 0&, 1, 0&, lngHwndMsg, 0&)

If I have a GIF picture,and I want it to be my MouseIcon,How to do it?
Thanks a lot!

I'm trying to use the Printer object to set the Orientation to landscape as
in the following:
Printer.Orientation = vbPRORLandscape
However, for one of my printers, this returns an error "Invalid property

   I'm developing a little game (GDI).
   I need two 'TransparentBlt' functions:
       - First is the classic one: painting a sprite using a given (source)
mask color (solved).

I am new to VB and need to get the size, width and height of a window that is
not part of my application.  I am not sure of what sequence or Win 32 API
calls I need to do to get the information located in the WINDOWPOS structure.
I am using the FindWindow function to get the ...

Hi all.  I have an app written in vb 6 that has been tested on win 98,
win 2k, win xp home, win xp pro.  The app works fine on all of these
operating systems.  However, the app has trouble on windows server
family operating systems.  Specifically Win 2k server and windows

Hola,
Question regarding the VB Imagelist control.....I have a Listview control
that is using Icons from a VB Imagelist. (This is still the Shell
Replacement project) The Listview present's Icon's to you and functions

   Is there a way to extract any numbers of frames from a video???  Because
I used third-party componets, but they're to slow.
  Does anyone knows how to do it????

I'm using the CLSIDFromProgID to test whether  particular ProgIDs are
installed.
I'm feeding the function a non-extant ProgId, XX.YY,  just to test what
error code is returned.

How to implement emails drag & drop function in VB? Please advice.