VB Forum / Win API / August 2005

Whenever we use the Common Print Dialog (COMDLG32.OCX) to select a printer,
it changes the default printer to the selected printer. This is clearly not
what the user intends, so I'm not sure why the dialog is working like this.
Be that as it may, we need to work around this. I ...

I wanted to make a vb application which would dial a telephone number using
the modem. When the person on the other end lifts up the telephone (answers
the phone), the application should start playing an audio file(eg. .wav
file).

we have a vendor written vb applciation that does not work correctly on the
new wonderful ntvdm for windows 2003. the application does not correctly
paint the dialog box and specifically does not paint test. it looks like it
uses the wfxwnd calls. the appication works on windows ...

want to capture a print command, so that when someone prints to the colour
laser, a dialogue box appears and says "Do you really need to print in
colour".  If yes is selected, it will print and if no is selected it won't.
I have vb and can create the dialouge box etc, but I can't ...

I must be doing something wrong but cant' see what it is
'declares
Private Declare Function CreateDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias
"CreateDirectoryA" (ByVal lpPathName As String, lpSecurityAttributes As

Hello!  Is there a way to create a registry key/value in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT with write permissions granted to everyone for that
one key/value?  I can create the key/value no problem but when I want to
change it as a non-admin user I don't have permission.  Any fixes for

I have a long running application - the machine doesn't
get rebooted for several months in a row.
My application uses gettickcount to build a unique string
that is used to communicate with a host system.

Hello, I am experimenting with the windows API and I am having trouble
closing a window outside of my vb application. All neccessary API calls have
been declared in a module.
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  This may be a double posting: my newserver is acting
strange and I have no idea if my original post to
aioe.org will have gone through.  :-[  So I am posting
with Google.

I'd like to automate IE from VB6 given only the handle of the IE window.
If I start IE myself I can manipulate the IE object
Dim IE As Object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

Is it acceptable to have separate modules that call different functions
of COMDLG32??
Or should all functions that use it be in one module.
Example: can I use 1 module to call ChooseFont and a separate one for

Hey there gang.
I'm wanting to return the actual values of the registry keys in the User
Shell Folders key.
An example of a value stored in one of these keys would be:

I need to determine if the 64-bit machine my 32-bit app is running on is a
workstation or a server, since our product has different licensing
requirements for servers.  For some reason, when I call NetServerGetInfo() on
an x64 XP machine, it reports that it's an S03 machine.  Is ...

I'm looking for some background information on the Window procedure
parameters wParam and lParam.
First, what do the w and l stand for?
Second, one or both of these may contain the pointer to a structure,

I have a treeview with various parent nodes and each has 10 subnodes.
if the user selects a parent node and right-clicks then i pop-up a menu
which then changes the label of the parent node. i have the pop-up menu in
the