VB Forum / Win API / May 2006

Hi, i've 2 PictureBox control containing other controls such as
buttons,labels ecc...
One stay at the top of the other....now when user clicks a button, i
want to fade from one to another...

In Windows 2000 Professional, is there an API call that will effectively
select or deselect the "Print in Grayscale" option in the default or named
printer driver?

Guys,
I'm trying to get an application running in which a map of a property
development (that's real estate for you US folks) is displayed, and the
individual plots are coloured according to their status.

i have a problem not to be able to delete the trace of system tray icon
unless and untill i arrow over it.
when i close the application i have added "Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_DELETE,
t"  to form unload, where t-> is of type NOTIFYICONDATA which is a

How to retrieve information about windows metrics?  Default scroll bar size,
Active Window Border size, etc.  The setting you'd set in Display Properties

I have an application that connects to an ignition controller via serial
port.  I offer users COM1 through COM9.  I wonder if there is any way to
find out whether COM1, or COM2, etc, exists?  Also, is there any way to find
out if it does exists and is busy?

Hello group.
I have some trouble printing to a console french accentuated characters
contained in strings
fetched from SQLDMO library (name property of the job object in the jobs

 I am using vb6 and need to get the 'printer driver' for some crw printer
calls I need to make.  The problem is that it appears inconsistent between
the printer object and the API.  I am using the GetPrinter API to get the
printer driver.  The driver it returns is "HP Laserjet 5".  ...

Is it possible to set the display properties of windows xp from within VB6?
Reason is, that I do not have control over the menu fonts.
Thanks for any help!

I use CreateFile() API to open a file and use WriteFile() to write to the
file.
After I close the file using CloseHandle() the actual date/time is assigned
to the modified filetime.

I'm writing a VBA macro to pick up data from a thrird party
application.
during this I use getpixel and getdesktopwindow and getdc to do a minor
amount of optical character recognition. This is all working fine and I

Hi, i'm trying to open an outlook  contact folder from a vb application. I
have a problem! when opening show me a message to ask me for permission in
1,5,10 minutes to login outlook constantly. i have a reference: MS outlook
11.0 object library. I'll appreciate your help!!

I am designing a program in VBA that will run for a couple of hours
uninterupted (because the people who will run this will set it going
and go home leaving their computers running).
However due to the limitations of the computer systems that our company

I'm trying to find the details of some files, I have a program to list
certain files on my drive, with the created and modified dates and size but
I would also like to have who Created the file!
Can someone tell me what the API call is and how to implement it!

ExitWindowsEx doesn't work in system account, even after adjutstTokenPrivilege
Any ideas on how to reboot a remote system that's not logged in?