VB Forum / Win API / April 2006

I need to know what is the active column on AfterLabelChange event in listview control with 3 columns of variable size
Is there an easy way to do this?
Or do I have to analyse GetCursorPos (considering a list may be scrolled horizontally),
which will lead to shifted column widths - ...

is it possible from (automatic) setup to install a new printer ?
There are API functions that I can call to add and configure a new printer ?
Thanks
Adriano

I wanna search buffer (dim buf(0 to 40000) as byte) in memory for a char to make processing really fast
I suppose that memchr is cdecl and doesn't pops stack on return - that is why I can't use it. Is it so?
Declare Function memchr Lib "ntdll" (ByRef block As Any, ByVal ch As ...

I'd like to set min size to my VB6 form.
I don't like the approch like this, as the form is flickering.
Private Sub Form_Resize()
   If Me.Width < 7545 Then Me.Width = 7545: Exit Sub

I have a form created in VBA-editor (in CorelDraw). It's not modal. It has no min/max boxes by default so I added setWindowLong.
It is displayed in modeless state as one of MDI windows (probably). Form is ThunderDFrame class
on form initialize it changes window style to show ...

I posted originally this on the Access Form Newsgroup
(microsoft.public.access.formscoding) and someone there suggested I try this
group.
I want to grab the background color of Access.  I'm talking about the

Dear Sir,
I am having a string contain Item description may have length upto 64KB
character including VbCrLf.
1. How to find No. of Lines in String if warp at 41 character or VbCrLf

I write an application on VB Japanese runs on Japanese Windows, the
program should use both EUC and Shift-JIS encoding.
It seems string functions in VB always use the system codepage, How can
I programaticly set the codepage for the application to assure the

Is there a way to reboot after hibernate ???

two questions:
1. I have a printer (PDF Ghostscript) configured on a FILE port:;
is it possible to avoid, programmatically, the printer dialog "select file"
and inform the printer to print on a file directly ?

i need  to add my exe  to windows service If you Know
thanls

I am looking for a way to store usernames and passwords for my vb6
application.
From my searches in MSDN I have found the PStore COM APIs which seem to do
what I want, However, there are notices in the documentation saying I should

I have a procedure which takes as arguments, a window handle and a list of
menu indexes in order to click the specified menu item. The first time I
called it, PostMessage failed with a crashing of the app whose menu I
attempted to click. Then I inserted codes to attach the thread ...

Two questions:
1. The uElapse parameter description states restrictions for various OS,but
does not list win 95 or Win NT, but the minimum os is liatewd as win 95 or
win nt 3.1.

I'm using the following code (API MessageBoxW) to provide
UNICODE-Messageboxes to some of my apps:
Private Declare Function APIMsgBox Lib "user32" Alias "MessageBoxW"
(Optional ByVal hWnd As Long, Optional ByVal Prompt As Long, Optional ByVal