VB Forum / Win API / February 2006

I have a C++ dll which is being called from VB. I dim a string in VB, pass it
by ref to C++ where I do a SysAllocString. How do I do the equivalent of a
SysFreeString in VB?
My C++ method does the following...

Hallo NG!
I try to center a Child - from within a MDIForm, using the following code:
GetWorkArea nLeft, nTop, nWidth, nHeight
pLeft = (nWidth - 9450) \ 2

my problem is the following:
I have the windows "File Downaload"
Through the function FindWindow and FindWindowEx I have recovered
handle of the Windows and the bottome SAVE.

How do you stretch an image (on a PictureBox or Image control) *while*
maintaining transparency?
In general, I can load a transparent PNG image onto a PictureBox or Image
control with no problem, using the TransparentBlt() call () defined in

i am having problem in creating a new safearray in vc++ of type double
if someone can help me out
if ts is possible send code
Tushar

I running into an issue calling the ShellExecute function on a PC running
Windows 2000.  The VB6 application is using the ShellExecute command to open
up a PDF document in Acrobat Reader.
When the code executes, ShellExecute returns a code less than 32 which

Hey there,
I having trouble completing a VPN connectiod programmatically. I used
www.carterszoo.com (thanks Steve) for a majority of the code but that
only took me 90% of the way. Thanks to this code I am successfully

I have an application to which I have to fill in some textboxes and to
push a button.
I have managed to do so with my test application written in vb.
Now, the real application is on a windows platform, but it is written

Yes, I know. This is an embarrassingly simple question, but it has me stumped.
I have a pointer to a buffer containing raw (either 24-bit RGB or 32-bit
ARGB) bitmap data (declared as BYTE *pBuffer in the original C++ code). I
also have a 24 or 32-bit bitmap saved to disc (let's ...

I know how i can open an excel-document using ShellExecute and how i can
find the excutable for an existing excel-document using FindExecutable.
But my problem is that i am creating an text-document with tab-separated
fields and i want to open it in excel but the file doesn't ...

I am trying to change the mouse speed by using the winAPI
I am able to change the value of the nouse speed but actually there is no
effect.
i hav etried restarting the system as well but no change

I need to develop a program that operates some tasks when user insert o
remove e pen drive from USB device.
How can I do this ?
Thanks

I've been working with a combination of VB and API graphics methods with some success.  But I've hit a roadblock and I wonder if it's just me, or a known issue, or...?
In the following VB code, GetDIBits, BITMAPINFO, etc all have their standard definitions and in fact work great ...

I need to know how to programmatically find the File System that is
storing a particular file.
I do not have the .NET framework available to me, so this is direct to
the Win32 API.  I need to know when a file is more than 10 minutes

Hello!!!
Is possible with the wininet.dll sets the timeout ???
When te ftp site in my company crash the command of wininet sleep 1 hour
exactly always and then continues qith te procss.