VB Forum / Win API / February 2006

How to control USB-devices using VB?
I'm using libusb-win32-device-bin-0.1.10.1 as driver, so HID interface
won't work currently.

dear experts,
i need to make system wide hook, to make any dialog/msgbox windows
center.
since i am a vb6 programer, i need c++ dll to do this.

The following function will return True if the IPicture object contains
transparency info:
Private Const PICTURE_TRANSPARENT = &H2
Private Function IsPictureTransparent(IPic As IPicture) As Boolean

Is there a way to determine if the caption text of a VB6 form (in the form's
titlebar) is truncated?
So if the full text was: 123456780 it was showing as:
123456..

Many GDI+ API Functions require or return "Image" and "graphics" as Long
such as :
Public Declare Function GdipLoadImageFromFile Lib "gdiplus" (ByVal filename
As String, Image As Long) As GpStatus

I was looking through a list of API's that will return the
full path to a program.  I didn't see anything so I hope
someone here can help.  For example, if I'm looking for the
location of "NOTEPAD.EXE".  I would expect this to be a

I wrote a function in a small tool to check for the existance of several files
this works perfectly on 95% of our computerpark (windows XP)
but on some it turned out it couldn't find any files at all while they do exist
so I expanded the routine to find a guilty piece of code (see ...

I've explored a number of methods to create Anti-Alias lines, and came
across a great example at Planet Source VB that explored a few different
methods.
http://planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=38582&lngWId=1

I'm trying to covert the RGB color to the HSL color.
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In example, I have RGB(63,124,81) :
Commdlg32.ocx    gives   HSL  92 78 88  (******)

When I double click a file with .DIS extention in my computer, it opens the
currently opened instance of Oracle Discoverer application, then loads that
.DIS file.
In the windows explorer window, by choosing Tools->Folder Options->File

Is there a way to disable the close button (or get a return
value indicating the close button was clicked) of a dialog
created with the MessageBox API?
RBS

I have this situation
MDI
Form1(SDI)
Form2(SDI)

I have a book with a lot of  guitar chord diagrams .
These comprise a  six by five  ' frame ' with little black dots  set onto
them  ( the notes to be played ) .
I want to grab the information , and , at the same time , convert the dots

I'm trying to set the BTNS_WHOLEDROPDOWN style for a few buttons in a VB5
Toolbar.
I think I'm doing everything SDK says but nothing happens.
Here's the code, help appreciated.

I've got a nice, easy problem - the code is in one location, the person
with the error is in another, and I'm in a third.  Oh, and other people
are using the code without problem.  But nothing unusual about that.
They're getting error 75, Path/File access error.  Going by what