VB Forum / Win API / July 2005

I having a problem getting my head around what I need to do to get the following C code working in VB :-
char propertyValue[] = "Fake Photograph";
and
propertyItem->value = propertyValue;     // propertyItem->Value is declared as Long in struct

From where can I get some help to create a dial up connection through VB
program ?
Thanks in Advance
Jayani

I need to do for a school project a mp3 tag editor. I managed to make
the common tags work (ID3v1 and ID3v2) but I'm not able to embedd a
image in the Album art tag.Can someone please give me some starting
points? (if you have some code it is perfect, also only some info is

Hi,
I would like to display .eps (encapsulated post scrípt) files (created by
QuarkXPress and/or InDesign CS) in a visual basic application. I assume that
it need to be converted to .bmp (or similar). This need to be done by the

Im trying programmatically to get the "Default Input Languge" (found in
Control panel -> Regional and Language Settings -> Languages -> Details ->
Settings ) using VB6, Would appreciate any help
Many Thank

I see some examples in Internet about use this Api function with vb6 but why
they use x Parameter to known the button (left, middle o right? why not
button parameter?. Why divide x by Screen.TwipsPerPixelX?
thanks

Hello everyone, little announcement releated to Win32APILib,
I can only hope that my English isn't that bad q;-)
Release note:
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I'm trying to remove (delete) blank lines in an
Edit Control (TextBox, RichTextBox).
Code works (no errors) BUT line is NOT deleted.
My logic and code are:

How can i write a program in VB6 that can run itself minimised in the Task
Bar. ANy body have any tuorials or examples.
I would also like to know how to make a balloon appear on the task bar when
a event is being undertaken

  Is there a way to get the height of a popup menu????
  What I want is tu put a popup menu on top of a button, but this menu
could have any number of items, and what I want is get the menu heigth and
then calculate the top value and load this menu for appear exactly over the

What is this file and what is it used for.
Where can i find it?
Thanks
D

Don't know exactly where to ask, but since it somewhat involves ShellExecuteEx I'll start
here.
Created an application:
fwiw: http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm

Any ideas why the following error occurs when "BuildExplicitAccessWithName"
is called?
PInvoke restriction: can not return variants
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I have tried with Simple MAPI, MAPI, MAPI32 API (from MSVS\VC98\Include\Mapivb.bas - also new version from internet that doesn't
work,
allways return automation error 80004005 and err.LstDLLError = 0!? I even tried to rewrite  declaration (dissasembled code to see
what MAPI32.DLL ...

How a can retreive the SN, of le HD with API functions.
thanks.