VB Forum / Win API / February 2006

I have the scenario below where I have a New Bitmap object and another
bitmap that points to this object.  Later on, I need to supply a GDI
handle to a C routine.  I get the GDI handle using GHBitmap, and then
to get the Image back I call FromHBitmap.  However, when I call

I want to be able to programmatically close a control panel item (I am using
vb6).  I would like to be able to close the control panel item regardless of
whether it was opened programmatically by my application, or it was opened
by the user by double clicking an icon in the control ...

I use VB to create WAV files of user's voices:
lngResult = mciSendString(sendString, returnString, lLength, lCallback)
This works fine in my development environment, but the problem comes
when trying to play these files.

I am wanting to be able to create a NEW user group with special priviledges
and policies. I want to be able to do this at runtime fo a VB6 application. I
am trying to create a special group so that I can then set read-only access
to specific folders within the registry. This ...

I would like to use the UPN instead of the traditonal NT username format for
an application.
Is there a way to get the User Prinicipal Name without doing an LDAP query?
Thanks,

I'm thinking about using VS 2005 to somehow create a calulator which
would alway appear on top of other applications. I use Win Calc a lot
to calculate values to be put in Excel or simply comparing current
checkbook balance with online banking balance. My frustration is that

how to forcfully kill a running process by executable name with vbscript?

how to forcfully kill a running process by executable name with vbscript?

I'm working with a mix of native and API graphics methods (using pixels as the common scale mode) and I'm discovering that I might be off-by-one in some areas.
Are the VB6 Circle and Line methods, etc 0-based, like their API counterparts?  I don't see this information in the help ...

I have an app that creates several subprocesses and I need to have them
communicated all the time, but I can not figure out how to have subprocesses
communicated with their parent. The communication has to be in two ways so
the childs can report their activities and the parent ...

I'm building an application with VB6. I know there are some free pdf
converter outthere and I need one that embeds within the application.
The application outputs text files, but the user requires them in pdf format.
Which pdf converter (freeware, not shareware) can you recommend?

From what I have read through on the Net it appears it is possible to use
SHFileOperation to copy multiple files to multiple folders. I have created a
source string to hold the multi source files. They have fully qualified
paths and each path is separated by a backslash & ...

Is there a way to 'send' data to the joystick thru vb rather than just
reading it?
I am working on a trainer that will 'ghost' the correct path to allow users
of a game to visually mimic the joystick inputs thereby improving their

I want to read resource file with FindResourceEx Api. FindResourceEx Api is
using MakeIntResource macro in C language, How to emulate  MakeIntResource
in VB. Thanks for all helps.
Hakan Örnek

The coding below activates a window without focus.  But the problem is that
the window may not be on top (i.e. window appears behind Outlook).
I also included calling functions BringWindowToTop and SetForegroundWindow
with coding below but it did not help (i.e. window will have ...