VB Forum / Win API / June 2005

I have a VB6 app tha creates a contact using the Outlook object.
When I have populated my contact details, I use the .display method to show
the contact details on screen.
When I call this program from another, the Outlook contact details form

I don't know if this is the right place but...
I have a function that searches the list of running Processes and returns
the ProcessEntry32 structure, which contains the ProcessId for the given
Process. I need to monitor the given Process to see if it is hung... or

From what I've read about system wide hooking, VB requires a separate dll to
achieve this.  Can it be done in project using VB+ASM?
Thanks
Simon

Can someone tell me how to cast EnumWindows from the API into a VB callable
function together with the callback routine.
I have done such a thing in <gasp> Delphi before but can't quite get my head
around the way to declare and use the functions in VB6.

I'm writing an explorer-like application. I would like to show the
standard explorer context-menu, which is shown after an object (file
or folder) was rigth-clicked in windows explorer.
What I have to do? (I think I have to call a win32api?)

I am trying to convert an old win98 app so that it works in windows xp.
In windows 98 I could shutdown the monitor by sending SC_MONITORPOWER,2
and by using blockinput only my application could switch the monitor
back on. The problem am having is that although I can set registry

I know VBA doesnt have the AddressOf function, but is there any work-arounds
to actually get that information so it could be passed to function?

I am writing a program which automaticly changes some of the colour settings
of the windows Desktop ie. the Windows Backgroud, font that sort of thing.
I know you can do it through the display manager but i would rather my users
didn't use that part of windows.  The program so ...

I am trying to get a file's modified time show as universal time, do anyone
knows how to do it?  I am using FileDateTime() to get the modified time, but
I don't know how to convert the time as a universal time.  Please help.
Thanks

is it possible to display custom text in the system tray instead of a custom icon?
I don't mean changing the systray icon text but actually showing a custom text similar
to the system date/time and no popup window

i want to sendmessage to a EditTextBox (class:ThunderRT6TextBox) by
using WinApi and VB6.0, but there is not any response :
'       lng = 3474826 TextBox hWnd
       Call SendMessage(lng, WM_SETTEXT, 0, ByVal CStr("win"))

I have a VB6 App that creates contacts in Outlook 2003.
I have "Outlook Security settings" set to allow address book lookups ups via
this object.
On my customer site I want to allow the users to use my App without being

I have a form with no caption or border. Is there a way to know when the
form receives and loses focus.

When using DeviceIoControl to retrieve a harddrive's S.M.A.R.T. info, I
noticed there is a Capabilities value in the IDSECTOR structure. Does
anyone happen to know the bit values for this? MSDN gives no information
on the layout of the IDSECTOR structure and I've turned up ...

Why does this function continue to fail? I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks
Public Type SHFILEOPSTRUCT
   hWnd As Long
   wFunc As Long