VB Forum / Win API / February 2006

i'm trying to figure out what "theme based" color scheme i should use for my
app.
What should i be passing for each parameter of GetThemeSysColor so that i
get the right color for any possible UI element i am custom drawing, or

Hi, I want to display real-time camera feed video on a GUI GUI. If so
does anyone know of any webcam manufacturers who provides APIs to their
camera product that would do this via USB for example. I welcome any
suggestions eg. using ActiveX, DirectX... Thanks.

I am trying to use the gluCylinder function within an OpenGL program
Do I need to make reference to the GLU library or is this part of OpenGL?
If the GLU library is NOT part of OpenGL where can I get a copy?
Thank you for any assistance.

I'm getting something strange when listing/opening services.
When I list services running on a system using the EnumServicesStatus API
status I can see "all" services.
When I try to open some of those services using the OpenService  I get an

Can anyone point me to a code snippet or give some idea on how I can turn an
array of bytes into an IStream COM object?
Thanks a lot,
Andy

I would like to open several html files that i have with a single click.
When I use RunShellExecute (From VBNET) The same window is used.
Please advise
Guy

I think I've optimized my code as best as possible, but thought I'd double
check with the experts.
I'm rendering weather radar data on a device context, with the following
specs.

I'm using ShellExecute inVB6 to launch a powerpointveiwer presentation
and need to know when the presentation has finished. I want my VB
program to still be running and send commands to the PPT stuff using
sendkeys but the vb should start doing something else when the ppt

Hi, I'm trying to hook keyboard events in other programs than my own,
but it won't work :(
my code is using this lines
Private Declare Function GetWindowThreadProcessId Lib "User32" (ByVal

I'm using ShellExecute inVB6 to launch a powerpointveiwer presentation
and need to know when the presentation has finished. I want my VB
program to still be running and send commands to the PPT stuff using
sendkeys but the vb should start doing something else when the ppt

I have a control (the vbExplorer control from vbAccelerator) that I tweaked
to mimic the task panel similar to MS Money 2006. It's great and it works
fine. I also figured out that I can achieve the same results using the IE
web browser control (shdocvw) with my own htm/css files.

I am trying to fill in a textbox that is not in my application.
I have the handler of the main window with : API : FindWindow.
And I'm trying to get the handler of the textbox in question.
There is the API function GetDlgItem(hwndMainWindow, TextBoxID).

I have seen several articles in VB6 where the Listview is subclassed
and the WndProc is hijacked. In this routine, we can respond to the
CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT message and use such calls as clrTextBk and clrText
to change the colour of the text and background.

HELP ME RETURNING AN DOUBLE ARRAY FROM VC++  DLL  BACK TO VB
HERE DOUBLE ARRAY IS PASSED FROM VB TO VC++ DLL
I PASSED IT SUCCESFULLY BUT THE PROBLEM IS WITH RETURNING BACK THAT
ARRAY

Maybe it's just silly me but, did you ever create a program where you
wanted it's tray icon to always be the 1st icon in the system tray area?
It's easy to just delete the programs tray icon and then add it back so
it shows up as the 1st icon, but is there a way to check the ...