VB Forum / Win API / May 2006

as per the subject I need to insert characters in the keyboard.
The reason being :
I get some data from other sources, I manipulate it then I need to put some
short text in a window from another app of which I DO NOT have control over.

Hi - I have been studying the exportation of .emf files from my vb app for
use with Adobe Illustrator and or Coreldraw and have couple of questions.
Firstly, if I create say, two polygons and manage to save them to an .emf ,
would the receiving application be able to differentiate ...

I would like to be able to check the date/times when files were lasted
accessed/modified, I know it's possible but I have a very, very basic
knowledge (no pun intended) of V.B..  Can anyone suggest somewhere where most
of the program is written and I can just modify it for my ...

I am replacing my ListView_MouseUp event handler with a Windows Hook on the
ListView for messages WM_LBUTTONUP and WM_RBUTTONUP because sometimes the
ListView does not deliver the MouseUp event as described in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q149326/.

I have a dialup connection.  Where can I find a list of api's for the "new
connection wizard" which i use to setup my dialup connection.  When you set
up the "new connection wizard" one thing it ask for is the password.  Where
is this information stored in window, is it in a ...

Does anybody here know the api call to set ClearType?
Many thanks for replying.
Best greetings,
Tom Weber.

How is the FindFirstFile function (from http://vbnet.mvps.org/) sorting the
files ?
I need an ascending sort for the found files !
Robertico

My computer is a Windows 2000 server and I have 1 NIC to LAN with the IP:
192.168.6.1, 1 other NIC to IPS1 with IP: 203.162.15.88 and one another NIC
to ISP2 with IP: 58.168.49.22
I'm using VB to code a program having Winsock to send data to Dynamic DNS

Hallo all,
I'm having a problem positioning a certain window using SetWindowPos, and
found the (appearent) reason in a strange SetParent behaviour.
I have to say the window in question has a somewhat...interesting history.

Programmed a few VB6 programs using serial communication, but nothing yet in
combination with grafical applications.
Experimenting with a new Tom-Tom GPS receiver, i want to use the GPS info
for pointing me on a map where i am on that moment, or for logging my

What's the most efficient and easy (assuming both can be done) way of
putting transparent text over a StretchBlted bitmap?
The context is a map display, on which I need to place various labels,
for example the names of towns and cities, which I'm currently doing

I'd like to load a webpage (source) to a textbox.
One of the possibilities i discovered is to use the "GetOpenFileName" API
and fill in the url (including http:\\) as file name.
(The webpage is downloaded and automatic opened from the cache)

I read about calling win32 printer API to retreive printer information from
the link below
http://vb.mvps.org/articles/dd200202.asp
The article does not say much about pausing a printer or purging queued

My default printer is kyosera 1000. I use following code to select the
printer from a print dialog in external application:
hMain = FindWindow("#32770", "Print")
   hChild = FindWindowEx(hMain, 0, "ComboBox", vbNullString)

How can I read out from control panel what date/time format is set there?
Is there an API available for this? I am using VB6.
Regards
Peter