VB Forum / Win API / January 2006

Does anyone know of a way for force (maximize) a window to span dual
monitors in code?

My application is trying to use the command 'glutSolidSphere' which I
believe to be part of the OpenGL library.
I have a reference to VB OpenGL API 1.2 and my OpenGL commands work fine.
When I use 'glutSolidSphere' the following error occurs: 'File not found

I have a picture box aligned top that acts as a title bar on my
application.
I use similar effects for menu bars,status bars, borders, etc...
I use a nice gradiant routine to make everything look nice.

   Hello group,
       I am actively looking for  a rare person: someone that knows VB6 and
APIs,
that knows also S57 (a file format used for maritime cartography), and that

   I am running FTP command from VB code.
   This FTP command opens a command prompt window.
   I am using Shell function to FTP a file. This is returning a
process id.

Is there any way of getting to know what OCX file Vb can't load?
Because, my friend tried to install my app, but when he was going to
start it, it said "activex component cant create object".
Then the program exits.

According to the info I found at MSFT's web site.
PathIsLFNFileSpec requires version 5.0,  or later, of shlwapi.dll, with a
minimum of Windows 95 with IE 5
PathFileExists requires version 4.71, or later, of shlwapi.dll, with a

I'd like to create a client/server app. to transfer files (not FTP) using
the wininet.dll.
Are there any examples available. I'am only interested in sending files from
one pc to the other (via Internet).

I am using the code below to hide my application to the notification area,
however, I would also like to remove its listing/existence from the Windows
Task Manager as a active Application.  It could still be a listed Process
just not a listed Application.  How is this done?

Is there any good and not crashing way to save a StdPicture to a String
and also load that string to a StdPicture again?
I've tried quite many ways, but seems to crash to often.
The IntelJPEGLibrary crashes the most often :), probbably because I'm

Is there anyone here that knows how to build a popup-menu from scratch
using the API-calls from WinUser.dll?
eg. CreateMenu and InsertMenuItem.
Since VB by default not support changing of the Menu-items previous

My vb6 code works fine with the GetPrivateProfileStringA api but not with
GetPrivateProfileStringW. Nothing is returned from the unicode version api.
However, there are unicode strings inside the profile file that become ansi
'?' if I use the ascii version api. Please help.

I am currently using popup menus in a program and need to fix problems
caused by users having a dual monitor setup.
Popup menus always popup on the first monitor, no matter which monitor the
window is displayed on.

I need to convert a time stamp represented as hexvalue e.g
0x01BB011B51BE6E80 to a date time.
Never found an understandable explanation about filetimes. So how to do this
????

Hi. I'm writing a program which works with sockets connecting to http
servers. But when the server is https, I think it's necessary to work with
SSL protocol. Searching on Google, I found some libraries that support this
protocol, but I couldn't decide which is the best one. I've ...