VB Forum / Win API / March 2006

I have a contex menu (common vb6 menu).
And would like the user pressing Shift button could check some menu items.
Can I disable menu hiding when clicking?
Thanks in advance.

I would like to print an image of the form starting about 5" down a pg
(8.5" x 11"). Any suggestions about how to approach this?
TIA,
Mike

I would like to be able to send email from any computer that is logged
onto the internet from private ISPs or corporate LAN's. Is it possible
to do this without using an SMTP server, on Win98SE and up?
TIA,

I need the C# code to open a windows directory.
Regards,
Shilpa

Does anyone have a VB6 example of moving the mouse to a specific pixle
location then clicking the left button?  This would be self standing
code, so it wont be refencing any objects, just move to a pixel on the
screen and click the button.

I have a VB form which is a modal window to a PowerPoint slide window. I
wish to offer the ability to the user to be able to click on any region on
the slide and place a picture at that point. Since the dialog has to be
modal I wish to place a modeless transparent window over the ...

I have an app that uses GDI+ to render certain elements on screen and
printer.
At the moment text elements are plain text but I'd like to move to RTF.
I'm guessing I need to parse the RTF text, render each chunk and setting

        I am using the InternetSetCookie api from VB to check if  the
browse (IE) can accept cookies. I  have disabled all cookies in IE 6 but the
api still returns true and a cookie saved.  I have to use this from a
Windows application (from a web application this would have ...

We have an VB 6.0 issue best described by using an example function
UpdatePermissionsOfRegistryKey() used in kb article 316440.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316440
While applying CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE flag to .AceFlags property of

Hi, any idea how to read Device Details information like Device Instance ID,
HardwareIDs and etc.
Those properties can view by click properties and details for any devices.
How can I programmatically read those information.

I use the SetParent API to run Notepad and other applications in a VB
PictureBox. Everything works fine except that I cannot find anyway to set
focus to NotePad through code. The only way is by clicking on it. Is it
possible to set focus to a program running in a child window?

I want to allow my program users to:
1.   Open a jpg inside of a panel control
     (PictureBox control inside Panel control ... PictureBox picture set to
      user's jpg file selection);

I've been using the cCrypt by Kevin Wilson found at http://www.TheVBZone.com 
for a while now.
Recently a user running Win Xp Home ran into some trouble with one of my
apps.

I want to write C# code to identify a file type and open the file in
the associated editor.
For example, text files should be identified and opened in notepad,
html should be opened in internet explorer/netscape/mozilla.

I would like to use IMAPI to develop an application that burns CDs.
At the site vbaccelerator.com I've found a good IMAPI wrapper; but to use it
in burning data (Joliet) on CD, it's necessary to provide an IStorage
implementation.