VB Forum / Win API / November 2005

I've an application I want to control with a joystick as a pointer device
iinstead of a mouse. I've no idea how to do it so if any one knows how to do
it please help me.
Any hints and advices are welcome.

I would like to use the Windows APIs to communicate with a Device connected
to the serial port. Can any one suggest good reading material that uses VB6.
Most of what I have found gives examples in C++.
The Programme is polled every 20ms by the device and the PC has to build the

Hello,Everyone.I have a question about API functions.
When I use SendMessage or PostMessage to close a program,it dosn't
close,only a inquiry form appears asking whether you want to close the
program.

Hello guys. I know nothing of programming and would like to know how
can I make a routine that, as I said, would print automatically a word
file after it's been changed via an ole link with an excel worksheet
(that implies I've changed the excel file).

VB 6 SP6, XP platform -
I have a an array of picturebox controls which will go into an imagelist
control
having a specific color that is set from a database

I have an application (VB6) where I am trying to get a form to return a user
defined type when it closes - i.e. it's a dialog box that returns data to
another form.
This is no problem with in-built types (string, integers) but I really need

How could I track the mouse click event outside a modal form?
I have a modal form and I need to know if the user clicks out that form.
Ahmed

i want to get picture1.Image but i have this message "Impossible to create
an image on Autodraw mode", this picturebox is on autodraw mode bicause i
need to draw text on image by Picture1.print.
thinks.