VB Forum / Win API / August 2005

Hi API guys'
I have a intriguing and tricky question:
what is the fastest way  (in VB/VBA) to see if a 16x16 bitmap inside an
stdPicture object is

For VB 6.0,
How can I change the default printer for printer object ?
Thanks :)

I am trying to get a file over an SSL connection.  But I first have to
go through two form pages.
How can I get an error 122 with HttpOpenRequest.
hRequest = HttpOpenRequest _

Hi have the handle of an EnhMetafile and would like to draw it onto another
EnhMetafile DC with simple 90, 180, 270 degree rotations.
I've been able to do it using SetWorldTransform but unfortunately it isn't
supported by Win 9x/ME.

Googled the heck out of this one, and no one has yet -- ever -- posted
actual, working code for this need: Starting with info from a .reg export,
demonstrate writing this data back to the reg. Without moving heaven and
earth.

I was searching the web for hours to find a small example showing me how to
implement Tooltips into my toolbar. I read all the msdn pages etc. Now I get
a tooltip working for the complete toolbar but not for the individual
buttons in there.

It a bit of a strange question.
We have a component which constructs SQL with a call
SQLConstructor.AddWhere Column,Value, Operator, AND/OR
I'm using it to build a SQL string, but rather than comparing against a

There is some piece of code:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var hndl :HWND;
begin

Creating a VB shell handler sure is tricky business! I have basic
functionality working now, dynamically adding a "popup" menu to the context
menu, with menu items under it. What I'd like to do next is add an icon to
the popup window, as well as the sub items.

I am using "InternetReadFile". Sometimes it hangs on somepages. I want
to set a timeout for this, so that it can wait only for that much time
and then quits.. Con anybody suggest me how can I do this
Byeeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm currently working on a web app to manage a DNS Server. I've made the
part that manage the .dns files, all i need is help to hook into the dns
server and make it reload a certain zone. Because it takes ages to relstart
the service.

I know how to tell if the OS is XP .
How can I tell if XP style is used (and not the classic view)
TIA
Guy

I need to change the TCP/IP settings for one of my network adapters in
code. Specifically I need to change whether an IP address is obtained
automatically and if not I need to set the IP address, subnet mask,
gateway and DNS server values.

We have a MDI application that we would like to take a screen shot of the
active form.  It works great for some forms.  However forms that are really
long just stop drawing maybe an ~1" below the screen.  We are sending a
WM_PRINT message with all the flags to the MDI form.  Any ...