VB Forum / Win API / September 2005

I want to extract images from mpeg video.
thanks for help.

 I was using MoveToEx/LineTo to draw a line. I noticed that it will drop
the last pixel co-ordinate from LineTo API. I am using now PolyLine
function to draw lines. My question is
1. I read Polyline does not drop the last pixel, but to me it seems it does

I need to develop some means of creating a pipework schematic drawing
directly from VB6, first on a form or report in preview, and then a
printable report. The specifications for the schematic will be in a
database, and would look something like this:

I'm trying to print a MS powerpoint file on the desktop and it seems to
hang on WaitForSingleObject
SHELLEXECUTEINFO ShExecInfo;
memset(&ShExecInfo,0,sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO));

I am using FreeImage, IJL, GDIPlus, ...
but none of it has auto levels function,
how can I calculate auto levels!?
[SolarAngel]

I use DrawIconEx to draw an icon onto a metafile DC.
Everything works ok under WinXP but under Win2K I get a black square.
What am I doing wrong?
Code below is a simplified version of what I'm using (needs to be pasted in

I want to nominate this newsgroup is THE MOST RESPONSIVE newsgroup on the
Microsoft news server.
My experience has been that I can post a question in this newsgroup and be
confident of a response within hours. This is terriffic! Meanwhile I can

I working for a long time ago about a class wich allow me to use a
pictureBox in Himetric mode.
I realize now that there's some troubles with this class.
One is the use of writetext methode, wich use textout and

I have been using date (CreationDate assuming that this is date when the file was created) to sort files creating string key while
reading data, and I have found something very strange:
I have files created 17. september, renamed 18. september and last accessed 19. september
but ...

I have a problem that's driving me crazy!!!
I have a vb6 app with various custom controls. One of them is the CommandBar
control from vbAccelerator. The app hooks into the clipboard notification
queue so that it knows what's being copied and pasted. All controls that I

I use the following code to print graphics stored in Bit (a bitmap object)
to printer.
pg is PrintDocument object.
What should I do in order to force the image to stretch or shrink and fill

Is it possible to open the Wireless Network dialog using VB6 on XP? I
tried using control panel cpl files to do it but that didn't work. e.g.
Shell "Control.exe ncpa.cpl,@0,1"
...

Can anybody help me with trying to fade a form in and out using the
AnimateWindow API? It's working fine except it does not show any graphics on
the form that have been drawn onto it using line method, paintpicture, etc.
I found some code that uses subclassing to make it work ...

Hello, could someone more fluent than I in VB please examine the
following and help me understand where the problem may lie?
Basically I begin by grabbing the handle to an "edit" control within
the main program (a game, Jedi Academy), and try to input text into

I'm looking for general formulas that would let me do things like this:
--Tint an RGB color with 20% white
--Shade an RGB color with 50% black.
--Mix two RGB colors