VB Forum / Win API / June 2006

I need to get the page count of a print-job as it is being
printed.
I have:
    - The hDC of the printer,

Got a format issue now involving a decimal place. These are the 3
strings that are coming out if my instrument;
+4.87351543E+001
+5.34925965E+000

I use a built-in PrintGrid-method of VSFlexGrid8
The StartPage-event passes a handle to
the printers Device Context, allowing some 'owner-drawing'
to the current print-page.

Hows can I determine if one rect is within another rect? Is it the
IntersectRect function?
Thanks,
Ivan

I have an application that manages documents.  Through the application,
users access is controlled.  However, in order for the application to be
able to open documents for any user, it stores them in a network share where
all of them are accessible by a smart enough user.

How i run a .bat file DOS with te createprocess API in hide mode.
Always in my tests the windows of command appears and i can't set the hide
atribute.
Thanks in advance.

What are the API-calls to get TextHeight/-Width
for a certain control and a certain stdfont
(that is not necessarily yet set to the
control)?

I'm doing the following to allow only numbers in a textbox:
Public Sub basSetNumber(ByVal NumberText As Object, ByVal flag As Boolean)
   Dim curstyle As Long
   Dim newstyle As Long

I have a small VB6 app which copies updated files onto client PC's and
updates shortcuts in the startmenu, only problem is that it works fine
on my development Pc, but not on any client PC's.
The Problem is with ShllLnk.dll, when running the apps, I get a message

I like to add a vertical Scrollbar to my form, but I don't like the VB
scrollbar control.
In addition I like to operate this scrollbar via the Mousewheel.
I have searched through the internet but only found complicated code where

I created an application that needs write permission to a directory and it's
child directories. (the application creates these child directories).
The user of that application only may have read permission for these
directorys (parent and childs).

I need some way to tell if another application is lying over the
rectangular region or form that is my application.
Is there a simple way to tell.
Thanks

      I have a tif image, that can't be open by any type of   tif
viewers. Some sort of data is missing. I want to read that file (using
any type of conversion - ie tif to gif or binary conversion-/any type
 ) and again convert it to tif [Using Asp.net-c#] and view the same

This is a VB 6.0 problem/question.
I'm using the CTimer and modTimer code from vbAccellerator
(http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/vb/code/libraries/Subclassing/SSubTimer/VB5_SS
ubTmr_Source_Code.asp)
to implement a "background task manager" in an ActiveX EXE.  The client

What are the alternatives to using CreateFile to get a handle for a file,
given that you have the path for the file?
There must be alternatives as I've seen programs handle certain files, where
I know CreateFile retuns an invalid handle.