VB Forum / Win API / January 2006

I am developing an application to save a PictureBox Picture to a GIFF file.
In it I call a Function to Count Unique Colors to be used in Octree Colour
Quantisation Code (CreateOptimal) after Brian Schimpf. The CountColor
function is one written by Robert Rayment.

Hi All I was just wondering if there was a better function/way to get
information on all the printers currently installed than EnumPrinters.
I only really need all the printer names but don't care to do the
memory management involved with EnumPrinters.

I am trying to use BROWSEINFO for SHBrowseForFolder.  I would like to have
*all* my API declarations/definitions to come out of my typelibrary - but i'm
having trouble with the string members of the struct.  my typelibrary
definition is this:

Is there any way to make the background of a picturebox transparent, so
that you can draw things on it with like Line or Circle, and it looks
like ist painted on the control below?

I can't use the function createFile for com >9
For COM1, COM2,...... COM9 all ok!
For COM10, COM11,..... the function didn't work.
Can you help me?

I am sorry but i am very new into this world of win32 programming :)
I am trying to write a file system monitor based on call back. The
problem i am facing is that:
1- If i copy say multiple files, the call back is called only for 2

Is it possible to read Cardholder name from VISA Electron SmartAard with
VB6&API
Mex

Hello, friends,
Our pictures have the size 32x32 pixel and are displayed in image control.
However, since differenct PC has different dpi setting, pictures fit in image
control well on one display monitor (say 90dpi) could be smaller on another

MSFT KB article Q185476 gives an example of how to search directories.
Note there is a bug in the code as the FileSize variable in th button clickj
event should be typed as Currency, instead of Long.
Otherwise, the code works fine MOST of the time.

The last time I did this was back in Visual Basic 6. Now I am using VB.NET
2005.
When I use my code now, it turns off the monitor just fine. However when I
move my mouse the monitor comes back on.

Lets say I have the hwnd of a treeview.
I would like to build a copy of it (Just the text for start)
I googled some and could not find a working demo.
Please help

I am developing a VB6 application that uses my soundcard to record to a Wav
file via its 'line' input.  I am using the mciSendString command in my app.
Currently, for my app to work properly I am using the Windows
Volume/Playback/Record control panel to manually select the ...

a) I have an application which uses a form and within the form a picturebox.
The form property 'WiindowState' on startup has been set to Maximized.
The picturebox does not have a 'WiindowState' property so in the form load
section I have used the following code to increase the ...

How to save image when i have used StretchBlt API.
For ex. if i use StretchBlt to resize image from Picture1 to Picture2
How can i now save Picture2?
Regards;

I have found that the standard Visual Basic LoadPicture() function will not
load some of the Images on my computer while GDIPlus methods work each and
every time. I have no idea why this is so but now I use the GDI+ exclusively.
However, there are times when I want to follow code ...