VB Forum / Win API / December 2005

  Im trying to use the Windows Media Player on my app, but I need to hide
the default control panel and program my own. Is there a way to hide it
trough API or something????

can anyone provide a VB sample code?

I'm trying to create a 10-band stereo equalizer for an player I'm
working on. The program is capable of streaming audio samples straight
from a file and modifying them using a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
class I wrote. This gives me the ability to use DSP filters and such in

I need to write a Visual Basic 6 routine to ignore keyboard input for 10
seconds anytime any key is pressed.
Is there an API call, or any other way, to do this?

I need a way of determining the TTF filename of a font, given its fontname.
Examples -- if I supply:
- "Bitstream Vera Sans" as input, I want to get "Vera.ttf" as output.
- "Arial Black" as input, I want to get "ARIBLK.TTF" as output.

Does anyone know if it is possible to manipulate the Windows API to emulate
the VB AddressOf operator?
I would like to use a CallBack function within a Class Module.
Thanks in advance.

   I got some problems. I'm having a ListView inside a PictureBox.
Everything works Ok most of the time. But now and
then Windows forgets to  refresh the ListView. For instance this will happen
if I place any window over my application and then remove/minimize it. I

Is there any way to make a window transparent and drop a shadow in a
Windows9x (Win 98, ME) operating system running pc?
Thank a billion for u'r reply

hi iam trying successless to copy an 2 Demsion Array based on Variant with
API...
Any hint ?
In the Array are various of DataTypes Strings, Doubles, Dates and Longs.

I try to catch a pop up windows that always comes by leaving a
particular internet page. I have a routine showing all open windows,
and I could state that the pop up I want to catch has a class name of
"tooltip_class32". The problem is, my routine doesn't show any name or

   I'm trying to display a search bar progress whilst performing a database
compact and backup proceedure. I'm displaying a form with a timer that
increments the progress bar every time it activates however when I get to
the DBEngine.CompactDatabase function the timer doesn't ...

Is there a way to hook the system event when an application is launched ?
I need to be notified when any application is launched.
I could poll process IDs over and over to detect this, but I would rather
do it more elegantly via a hook if such a method were available.

I know how to hook the entire keyboard but I just want to hook the
printscreen-key.
It's because I am making a program that automatically saves your
screenshots. And I want the code to be as clean as possible. And there's

Okay Mike, and anyone else reading this.  This code will return the full
path of the program whose window handle you pass to it.  it work's properly
under all flavours of Windows (normally accomplishing this under NT took a
little more effort), so now it works for all.

Hello viewers,
can anyone tell me how to read and write data from internet? for example i
wanna write and read data from my web site by giving the username and
password that i know. is it possible in VB?