VB Forum / Win API / December 2005

  Hi!!!
 I got a weird issue when I try to get a form's parent.
 I made an function called getParenName like this
Public Function GetParentName(frmm As Form) As String

I have a series of hIcons generated from CreateIconFromResourceEx in another
process that extracts the data from an ICO file.
I use GetIconInfo to get pointers to the color and mask bitmaps. I use
GetObject to get a BITMAP structure returned.

I've a problem with unicode characters when using the open function in
visual basic. If you've a korean character in the name of a file an try to
open it in visual basic code with open function it fails. This doen't happen
when using the textstream, but what if you need to use ...

Does anyone know about a video editing API that has ability to disply,
crop, zoom and stop action on videos. Any help would be great.
Thanks
Hari

I have an USB device and its driver installs 4 virtual COM ports.
I can open each of these Com ports, send and receive and close them.
But sometimes the call of CloseHandle does not return., I even cannot kill
the task via the task manager (Win XP sp2).

Hi friends I am doing  a project using VB which requires remote
callback to the client's machines. Can anyone please tell me how to do
it and its very urgent..
I checked the callback example in the samples directory thats comes

I've been asked to create a new VB app that looks similar to our Siebel CRM
application.  The colors and fonts are easy enough, BUT Siebel forms appear
in Classic format (square corners, gray outline, etc.)  The application is
running on a WinXP machine using WinXP theme but is ...

I have an application which consists of a number of DC layers that I
composite using a TransparentBLT off a pre-determined color. The application
works just fine and no questions there.
What I'd like to do now is best described in the graphics linked below that

I must be missing something real simple, but i can't find it.  I'm trying to
write a batch program that has no windows (forms) and that sends data to the
console (i.e. the Command Prompt window).  The code below appears to run
without error (either in the IDE or compiled into an ...

I am trying for a long time now to get the information of a printer.
i have such cide in vb6 but having troubles moving it into vb.net.
can anyone please provide me with the correct vb.net declaration (there
are so many different versions online) and example of how to use these

May I request you to please let me know how can I get a Form object by
it's hWnd or hDc in Visual Basic 6.0. I have a Sub as
Private Sub PopulateLabesOfRespectiveForm (hwndOfForm as Long)
    Dim frm as Form

I load a file into a bitmap object.  The bitmap object is in 8bits.  I
need to now supply the handle to a C dll which accepts and integer
value (HBitmap).  The problem I am having in .NET is when I try to get
the handle, what is returned by GetHBitmap is 32 bits.  The C routine

Hello Experts,
I am using a frame grabber to get an image from a camera.  I access the
frame grabber via a DLL function (WP13SaperaGetImage ---See Below)
I send an array by Reference to the DLL and get back an array with

I have created an hIcon from scratch using CreateDIBSection, CreateBitmap,
and CreateIconIndirect.
In theory what I want to do is provide a user with a DC  to party (draw) on.
Shouldn't I be able to do that by getting the icon's info (GetIconInfo()),

I am looking to create an Icon (frame) from scratch, given height, width and
color depth. What sizes/data should my XOR and AND buffers have? I think I
would like to have the color portion empty (or flooded with a given color)
and the transparent portion completely transperent. I ...