VB Forum / Win API / November 2005

I wonder is there any API function that will allow me to get the number
of seconds past since last user action (mouse click or a keystroke).
For example a screen saver starts after 10 min of inactivity. I need to
get number of seconds since last user action.

Is there a way to add a button onto the DoOrganizeFavDlg dialog and tap
into the dialog's events from the calling program?
If not, can anybody point me to some VB code which simulates the
DoOrganizeFavDlg dialog?

I have a function (see below) that retrieves the currently logged in Windows
User account (Domain\Username).  When executing against a Windows 2000
Domain, it returns exactly what I would expect...Domain\Username.  However,
when I execute the code against/within a Windows Server ...

What are the differences between Picture, StdPicture and IPicture? Which
should i use?

I wonder is there any API function that will allow me to get the number
of seconds past since last user action (mouse click or a keystroke).
For example a screen saver starts after 10 min of inactivity. I need to
get number of seconds since last user action.

What I am doing is populating a listbox on my mini-form with data from
an excel worksheet.  Then when a user clicks on an entry in the list
box it pastes the information into the current edit control.
This works fine in transferring all the text correctly, however any

Hi I would like to display one 160x120 pixels bitmap few times in
main window. I have done this using BitBlt function few times, but
when I display those bitmaps about 10 times for second it isn't
fluently.I can see skipping . Maybe somebody know how can I do this.

I try to use you module modCopyBitmap.bas do convert bitmap
from 24-bit to 8-bit color palette.
   I use for test:
   ' Create DC, read Bitmap from disk into DIBSection

I'm looking for a possibility to create a rs232-connection for my own
programm. That means:
The PC has the Ports Com1 and Com2 and - if my program starts - i want
to have Com3 in order to get an Hyper-Terminal-Connection without any cable.

Is it possible display "BalloonTip" on VB6 ToolBar control button?
Regards;
Meelis

The following code will set the keyboard lay out to arabic and displays
arabic charecters in
the textbox.
Const LANG_EN_US As String = "00000409"     'English

I've got a C DLL which contains the following function:
int myFunction(const wchar_T **arr, int len);
My questions are:
1. can I pass pointer to a string array from VB to C at all?

how to make a contols top(left & right) edges rounded (imitating a
form)

Salut,
j'ecris actuellement du texte dans un picturebox et je récuperer l'image
avec le texte.
est-il possible d'incliner le texte dans le picturebox et de lui donner un

Hi, I loop through zip files in a folder and extract them to another
folder. Users are supposed to use a certain password which I pass
through in the shell command. If the user has typed the password wrong
winzip throws a dialog box "Winzip has encountered errors" and waits