VB Forum / Win API / July 2005

I've written a VB6/SQL Server 2000 database program and my users would
like the ability to have only those people in a particular Netware
group be able to delete records.
Is there an API where I can pass the name of this group and it will

I am facing a problem of printing High resolution gifs(big pixel
dimension) to letter sized  pages.
I want it to fit in the page.
After scaling down the image based on the source and destination image

I have an application which draws closed shapes and flood-fills them with a
predefined colour.  It uses
lngDummy = BeginPath(lngDC)
Loop

which API function can determine DECIMAL seperator of current system?
Thanks
Martin

I am trying to send and receive SMS to mobile phones using a VB.Net app. I
have very little experience with TAPI and hence would be extremely grateful
if some one would either give me the code to achieve this or direct me to a
web site or book that will give me the info I am ...

Hai,
How to detect an application is a systray application/visible/hidden
process? Help me.
Thanks in advance

Well I need this cause deleting item reflects removing Selection on that item, which I don't want to do.
I want to keep selection, and nice thing would be if there is some message like this one below,
or I will be forced to make not nice code:
For example:

Hi All, I am goin thru the articleid 282474 on
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282474 to define
Custom Page Sizes. The operating system i am using is Windows Xp
Professional. When i run the program and try to create a new Custom Page,

Can anyone please help me on the following:
I like to write a VB program that instructs internet explorer to refresh its
window(like pressing F5 or pressing refresh button).
Problem is that internet explorer should not be the active window(not having

i have need to check on what rights a domain user account has on a local and
remote machines.
for example a domain account "johndoe" i would like via VB to check to see
if this user is a member of what local accounts on a machine. then check this

I have a VB 6 routine to validate users' passwords before allowing them
access to a specific function, the code fro which I got from the Microsoft
site. It works perfectly OK (it uses the security API functions) for most
users, but fails to validate the password correctly if the ...

a little (mini) Application (that should be a new VB-Tipp),  that run
without any Problem under Windows 95/98 has a big Problem with Windows 2000
/ XP. This Problem is posted in microsoft.public.de.vb, under the same
title, in german, but there we can't fix it. Perhaps is it ...

How to deal with delete-on-paste operation in VB?
For example, cut files in Explore,  paste into a VB application, I can get
the pasted files, but the files are still in Explore after paste, not being
deleted.   How to set it up so the files can be deleted.

How to do this in VB: launch a file
 1..  no extension, popup a "open with" window
 2.. .xsl but no excel installed, ??
 3.. open with win default assign application

I have a simple question to make. How can all setting of a web be set from
VB without user intervention? I´ve tried with the AviCap32 dll but there
some things that I can´t do such as changing the webcam´s capture
resolution.