VB Forum / Win API / June 2006

My Toshiba laptop can direct its display to its own LCD display, and
external monitor, or both.  This is normally done via a function-key
combination on the keyboard.  I would like to be able to control this
from an application I am developing.  Anyone know where I can look for

Is there a standard WINAPI function that can retreive cursor blink rate?
Thanks in advance.

Hopefully an easy one.
How would I send a refresh message to a treeview using SendMessage?
Thanks!
Dan

Hi all, another tricky question...
I wrote a (VB6) program that, among other things, uses WMI to remotely shut
down the 180-odd desktop computers in the school of which I'm "the LAN guy".
It works surprisingly well, except in one aspect - I *know* it could go

I am using GDI code to capture the client-area of a form,
paint it into a Picture object and finally print it out
The code is basically from MSDN with little modifications:
'How To Capture and Print the Screen, a Form, or Any Window'

I am doing a program that should pass a large memory chunck to a DLL file
the problem is that my code crashes when I call the RtlMoveMemory API and I
dunno
why, here is the place in my code where it crushes

How do you get process times for different processes?
I've successfully retrieved it for the current process, using
getCurrentProcess to retrieve the process handle and GetProcessTimes for the
process times, but when trying to retrieve other process times the function

I'm trying to be notified if the user switches the keyboard layout.
AFAIK the only way to go is by subclassing. I use the sources found at
http://www.mvps.org/vbvision/_samples/CD_Monitor_Demo.zip as base and
intercept the WM_INPUTLANGCHANGE message.