VB Forum / Win API / August 2005

    As in the working of Winamp, what is the API/message that handles the
display of taskbar/Alt+tab list. and the icon should appear in ALT+TAB list
and doesn't appear in the task bar.please help me.
Thanks in advance,

Have been practicing with various API functions to open Notepad add some
text and save the file, just as a learning exercise.  All works well
including using SendMessage to land a path\name in the save as dialogue box.
There are 2 things however that I'm currently stuck with.

Hai,
    How to create an application that stays in windows taskbar like Windows
Media Player 10 - which minimizes into taskbar and controlled within that
bar. please help me.

Hi everyone...
I'm working on a medical application and I need to calculate the area of an
irregular shape.
I saw an earlier post about a similar topic where Mike Sutton responded with

I was wondering if someone has a code snippet or can point me to such for
the following:
Let's say I have a parent app such as MS Word, for example or something
similar.  Under certain conditions I want trap for MouseDown and MouseUp

Per the docs on GetOpenFilename
if the call fails, read the error, if it's buffer too small the first two
bytes of the lpStrFileName are the size required
'with multiselect flag set, the filenames string can become very

I'm using the Microsoft Internet Controls reference to open a new Internet
Explorer instance:
   Dim ie As InternetExplorer
etc...

I have  WinXP pro (desktop) and WinXP home (laptop) in LAN.
If I transfer data from laptop to desktop, all is fine and system uses >75%
of 100mbit LAN bandwidth.
When I transfer anything from desktop to LAPTOP problems begin,

I was wrapping the GetOpenFilename api in a class for my utilitys toolbox.
i discovered that if multiselect is used the return is different depending
on whether only one, or more than one, file is chosen.
in my calling routines I don't want to have to adjust for that variation so

I have tried using GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() to obtain the amount of free
space of a DVD RAM. It returned an error and I used a getlasterror
showed that the error was "parameter is incorrect"
I have checked all 4 the parameters and found them to be correct.

  Im developping an Schedule App. But I got a really big problem!!!
  This app manages its DB on a Network Drive -usually S:- and Its work very
fine with it. The problem comes when the LAN -or WAN- disconnects and
reconnects. Because the PC lose the ND and when I try to do a ...

I wish to have a VB or VBA code to do the following:
1. Look if there is an application called 'DI.EXE' running (I can supply the
caption of the application if necessary).
2. If so, Press on a specific button on that application (I know which

I have a graphic sdk that assumes the user is writing C++.  But, we have a
lot of VB code.  The function that should put a bit map into a picture box
requires its Dialog ID.  Is there any way to get that property of a VB
control?

I am trying to use PlaySound within a dll to play a .wav located in a
resource file which is also in the same dll.  I believe the trouble is
that I cannot figure out how to get the hInstance of the dll to pass to
PlaySound (the hModule parameter).  Does anyone know how to do this or

I get a WM_USER+1010 via PostMessage sent to my window by another process.
I wanted to set a Hook to somehow catch this Message, so i did:
myHook = SetWindowsHookEx (WH_MSGFILTER ,  (HOOKPROC)(DesktopCallback),
NULL, GetCurrentThreadId());