VB Forum / Win API / February 2006

I would like to use LockWindowUpdate to lock the refresh of a listview
control so it doesn't flicker as multiple items are being added.  I have it
set to refresh about every .66 seconds.
Unfortunately, when I unlock it, every window in the entire OS refreshes,

Google is not my friend tonight. Or I am just being too
impatient. Anyway can someone point me to relevant MSDN
articles (or other up-to-date technical info) regarding
parameter passing between C DLLs and VB programs.

In my ComboBox, I am trying to post the CBN_EDITCHANGE message after the
CBN_SELCHANGE is received, but I am having no luck. I can trap for the
CBN_SELCHANGE message, but I cannot post the CBN_EDITCHANGE message. I think
my PostMessage parameters are wrong, but I cannot find what ...

Are there any windows event that triggers when a user is resizing a window
in any running applications?

Can anyone tell me how to detect when an application runs in a fullscreen
mode, for example when powerpoint runs in presentationmode.
Regars /Anders

I pasted the code in below for a function that sets the date modified time of any file.
It works great for me (in the US), but I got an email from someone in Sweden that it sets funny dates on their files.
Apparently, their dates have the year first, like 2006-01-31, ours are year ...

I am struggling with loading a picture from a file. I tried it with
OleLoadPictureFile(). But for a picture with 2288x1712 this takes about 250
milliseconds. That is much too slow!
When you change the view in the Windows Explorer to "Thumbnails" this is