VB Forum / Win API / October 2005

[This is a graphics rather than a api-question, sorry for that]
I have a pictbox that stretches or shrinks with its form container.
on resize the picture of the box is redrawn, which displays a chart.
(painted with Line, Circle and Print and so on, no chart-ctrl used)

I'm using the example from VBNet to retrieve the PC's MAC address. On my
desktop computer the function returns an address, whilst on my laptop it
returns a string of 0's. The laptop has a network card but is not connected
to a LAN/Internet.

Are there any method to communicate with others VB program through network
(TCP/IP)? There are around 15 front end programs (workstations) need to
communicate with 1 back end server. I know "Winsock" can do, but I think it
is not a good method for this project.

I have a sample that call a DLL, which is bundled with the sample, and user
no need register (regsvr32 XXX.dll) it before run the sample program.
It is great but I dont know how to do it
I have using it's sample code as template and paste my code inside the

I would like to be able to go through a jpeg file and store coordinates
of a line in an arrey, pixel by pixel.  My entire jpeg is white and the
line is pure black.
Please help.

I'm trying to get the google pagerank using this approach:
url =
"http://www.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&ch=62031113162&features=Rank&
q=info:http://www.example.com"
    Set xml = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")

I am student in eletronic engineering. I have a project to write about modem
sending and receiving.
I need to use Ms Comm Control 6.0 to transfer from one computer VB form Text
to another computer through the simple modem that done by me. Then the same

I'm trying to find out information regarding Word files without needing to
open the file.  I am able to check the statistics but I also need
information as to the characters in the headers/footers and font changes.
Is this something I might be able to get through the API?  I've ...

I am writing a program to send a text string to a parallel line printer and
print one line at a time (so I am not using the printer driver). I am using
the following statement to send a string to parallel port, but it has a very
big limitation, when the printer is off line or off ...

   IDE : Visual Basic 6 Ent, SP6
   URL :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getting_the_system_version.asp
   Goal : Get Windows' version from C++ code to VB

Has anyone used the SendInput API to perform mouse movement?  I have a
program which preforms four mouse events:  1. Move mouse absolute to 0,0
2. Move mouse absolute to x,y (specified in the program)  3.  Left click
down  4.  Left click up.  The problem I'm having is that after ...

Hi, I'm exploring GDI+ and I'm running into problems when trying to draw
icons.
While I can draw a standard bitmap with GdipCreateBitmapFromHBITMAP, passing
the bitmap handle and getting back GDI+ bitmap handle, it seem that

I'd like my notify icon to act upon the active program.
I've tried using GetForegroundWindow but it doesn't work.
Any sugestions?
Regards,

I want to use Mem dc and i want to change mdc  Properties.
But i Could not able to get what i am missing here in BitBlt. It Does not
dispaly.
Here with Source Code. so please some one help me.

I have a question about using the SHFileOperation API function
I write a application to copy files to a network share (for test purposes).
So i decided to use SHFileOperation function.
During the copy process i'd like to save some information (with an interval)