VB Forum / Win API / May 2006

Hi I have 2 computers.
I am trying to stop services in computer A from computer B.
but the access of computer A differs from Computer B.
Please let me know How to code for this.

VB.Form, VB.PictureBox and VB.Printer have a TextWidth and
TextHeight-method, they also share these VB-Drawing methods
like PaintPicture, PSet, Line, Circle, Print, Cls
and props like CurrentX, CurrentY, DrawMode, DrawWidth, FillColor

Is it possible to use API and change the up/down increase value to 5 / 10 /
15 minutes steps (when dtp is in Time mode).
TIA
Guy

  New to this so bear with me.  I am printing to a "pre-printed" form.  The
user wishes to pre-view and capture a 'picture' of this as well as print it.  
So my basic idea is to scan in the form and then  'update it' with the text
that I am going to send to the printer, and then ...

Thanks Mike for the support.
I can control font and size of the menu kine now from my application!
Could you do that same miracle for the windows caption (blue top bar of
appl. window) font as well? That would be the only font left that I can not

I have been wondering about the correct approach for the following:
I have a form with a richtextbox indexed control (RT1(0)). When starting the
application the form is subclasses and several other richtextboxes are
created. Then number of RT1.count

What  is the best way of preventing WM_USER messages from external
window(i want to block one particular windows message WM_USER+100)
is  hook  necessary?if yes then which hook is the best?or is there  any
other way?

With MS Explorer I can copy files into a ZIP folder. Is it some how possible
to copy files within VB6 into a ZIP folder? Maybe some API?

I am building an apllication using the ndisuio. When I use ReadFile()
to read the incoming packets the application hangs. I used
PeekNamedPipe() to check if there is any data at all to read. And it
gave a huge number (3megabytes). I guess the problem is because of

I want to open folder (not dialog) in explorer with my item selected.
the following example doesn't work. though ppidl is not null and not -1
How to program it correctly?
Private Declare Function ILCreateFromPath Lib "Shell32" Alias "ILCreateFromPathA" (ByVal pszPath$) As Long

I want to force windows to read some registry settings again.
Settings windows (explorer, desktop, progman) shell dont read unless it
starts up or restarts, or by smashing f5 a hundred times (Yes sometimes f5
works but far from allways).

I'm formatting a caption for my form title. The caption contains a path and
I need to make sure that the rightmost portion (most significant) portion of
the path displays. Therefore, if the caption will be longer than can be
displayed, I need to truncate the path from the left, ...

I have a file that my application uses, *.extension.  I would like to
register it with windows so that it can open with my program and have an
icon that I specify.  How would I do this?  If you are able, please give me
a winapi function name for this use.  The thing is I work in ...

i want to lock a  folder and also its exe file so that nobody can run it  
unless a special password was given to the system. is that possible in VB by
using API or something else?

I found a WIN API call (SHBrowseForFolder) that supplies a UI for selecting a
folder (returns the selected path as a String).  The problem is, it doesn't
support creation of a new folder.  I need the user to be able to create a
folder (if desired) and select it (return it).  I ...