VB Forum / Win API / January 2006

I had alloced a console.
I want to run a process(command) "ex:dir /c"
and get its return exit code in this console.
I need the process's output ("dir /c") on screen.

I am using VB6 runing program on Win98,
and writing a console program (DOS prompt).
I need function like "getche()" runing on console,
and Hook Keyboard Procedure works not good at sub-process...

Is there a way to add a communication port through vb instead of
setting it
up through the control panel "add new hardware"?
I have some servers which has 4 comm ports. 2 plug & play and 2 non

I am developing an active x control in VC ++ to be used by a VB application.
How can I pass structures / pointer to structure from the VB application to
the active x control ?  How do we pass union data types from VB program to an
active x control developed in VC ++ ?  I have the ...

I am having troubles using mciSendString with low sample rates in a simple
VB6 single-form app with one command button.  See the entire code below.  If
I use a sample rate of 22050 or higher everything works fine, but if I
change it to 16000 or less the resultant Wav will have ...

I wonder if it's possible to create an app. to capture the http and https
headers from a browser session.
Is it something like a proxy or ....?
Susan

How come you experts keep this forum without 100% success
to move windows taskbar by coding?
since few days I have explored >100s of messages with "Failures"
in moving Windows Taskbar especially with WinXP.

I have this function :
Public Function LogError(Message As String)
   MsgBox LogFilePathName
   On Error GoTo LogErrorError

Is it possible with VB6 to analayse the pixels from an image.
I'd like to create an application to display a graphic representing of the
pixel colors per by percentage.
Regards,

I have a situation where I need to send a username, password and domain to a
running application. I can use AppActivate and SendKeys to do this, however
the problem is that I only want this to be sent from a VB application to the
running program when a particular screen appears in ...

Is it possible with VB6 to read (not write) physical disk sectors (floppy,
hard drive)

I need count the frames of a AVI media file - the length.
I made the code bellow and it works well in VB.6 but not in VB.NET
Why does not work in DOT.NET ? I tried to change TYPE to STRUCTURE, and
ByVal to ByRef in API calls, but without sucess.

I want to write VB code to run locally under Windows and those Windows
applications that provide an appropriate api. What basic tools (compiler,
etc.) do I need to code, test, and debug simple VB programs and what is/are
the most economical products to obtain?

Is there an API for determining whether an OS allows a long file name, e.g.,
"A B C.Bagels.Lox".
I can fake a test using On Error, but I was wondering if an API for this
existed.

Dear Randy Birch,
   I was reading your post regarding the  "About uses NetBios() to get
MAC,HELP!!!".
   Can you let me know how reliable the result that we can get? Previously