VB Forum / Win API / December 2005

Trying to get the text of items in a listbox of an external application.
This code will get me some data, but it is in non-readable form like this:
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I have a problem with one of my applications that I'm not sure how to fix!
The program stores urls and executes them using the Shellexecute api (not
shellexecuteex)
On most systems including all my test systems this works fine however one

This there a way to tell (with code) a ComboBox to pop down?

How can i copy an entire directory (and subdirs) including files in use ?
(an example would be great)
Thanks in advance,
Jeanine

Does anyone know how to open a .DSS file with MCI commands? I can't
figure out how, perhaps it is not possible. My code is below.
vstrFilePath is the file path, passed in at the function call.
I have tested it with other sound files (.wav, .mp3) and it works fine.

Is it possible to create a VB application that can make a physical memory
dump.
Regards,
Robertico

We're setting the default printer from VB with the following statements:
(Disclaimer: I didn't write this code personally; I inherited it. Perhaps
this is not the right approach or perhaps there's a better way to do this.
If so, please let me know.)

Is there a way to find the size of data file uploaded in vb6. I used
the following without any luck.
1. Inet Control
.Execute , "SIZE TestOutput.txt" where TestOutput.txt is the file in