VB Forum / Win API / September 2005

Hello! Is possible, to get from VB.Net size of window other application? For
example, how to get size of Word window? How to get state of this window
(minimized, maximized,...)?
Mayby is any component with thise functions?

I am looking for a font for barcodes
, not Code 128AB, but something that is much smaller size barcode (I think
3x9, I don't remember - It should be small and the most common one for years
...).

Is it possible to check all items in listview with API? (Checkboxes)
Using For or Do Loop is too slow :) when there are many items
Rgeards;
Meelis

How can i get which user are currently accessing (opened) a given file?
Thanks for the help
Nijazi Halimaji

I need to fill a pie shape which is drawn over a circle.  The idea is
to create an area on the circle which appears to be reflective. For
this reason the fill needs to be a gradiant fill fading from white in
the vertical center of the pie to the circles fill color as the pie

Can anybody help a person I know (who doesn't have access to Newsgroups)
with this issue. He is using VB6.0 with SP6 installed.
He is using a FindFirstFile API from
http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/FindFirstFile.shtml

Statement:
lb_rtn = WritePrivateProfileSectionA(ls_datafile, ls_section,
ls_ini_file)
According to MSDN:

When a user left clicks the minimize button, a window procedure recieves a
WM_SYSCOMMAND with SC_MINIMIZE. Is there a way to detect if the user RIGHT
clicked the minimize button.

I would like to know are there any method to select a directory on common
dialog box, because I have tried that, it can only select file.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,

I would like to be able to set an item in a listview (List Mode) to bold,
this is a trivial matter with the VB6 control, but the VB5 version does not
support the same method nor are there any obvious messages that I could find
to send.

Guys,
Below is my current code.  The code writes a value to a field in the
current active document.
Instead of writing the value to the current field (assuming the field

I have the following vb6 program:
Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As
Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As Long)
Dim s1 As String

I have a problem. In our current VB application, if a user does not have the
authority required to change a Word document, then when they open it, what
happens is the document is copied from the server to their hard drive (using
FileCopy command) so that the attribute can be ...

I am creating a database application to store programming configurations for
a microcontroller based product using Visual Basic 5.0. I am calling the
command line programming utility and creating a pipe to display the messages
in my window. It works fine on one machine but will ...

Is it possible to find the total height and width of a given window region?
If the region is smaller than it's rectangle (as found by GetWindowRect),
how can you determine what the regions width or height is?
I hope that made sense.