VB Forum / Win API / July 2006

How can we scan our ip whether it is alive or not in our LAN? Thanks

I intend to develop a new application in VB 6.0 on Windows XP plate form.
And for user/password authentication i want to use NT Domain account.
For Example:
User Name : nr

One of my features in my progam is to get document from scanner, and save it
in the computer and in the database.
Is there a simple way to use scanner driver?

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I am trying to call CreateEnvironmentBlock in VB 6.0 and am so far
unsuccessful.  As far as I can tell, my declaration or the way I am using it
is incorrect.  Here is what I am declaring it as:
Private Declare Function CreateEnvironmentBlock Lib "Userenv.lib" _

I have need of displaying Unicode characters in a picturebox.  The Print
method substitutes a "?" for any character whose code value exceeds 255,
strictly ANSI SBCS, or whatever.
I have tried to use a API functions such as TextOut or ExtTextOut, but they

I would like to be able to stop a VB6 webbrowser dead in its tracks in
the middle of download (webbrowser.Navigate url).
Right now I navigate to a page and use a loop to wait until the page has
completely downloaded, trying to interrupt the download with a flag:

I'm not sure if the winapi group is the correct place to ask theis question
or not but...  How can I test to see if a DLL is registered or not?

I declare then winapi:
Public Declare Function NtFsControlFile Lib "NTDLL.dll" (ByVal
FileHandle As Long, _
     ByVal lEvent As Long, ByVal ApcRoutine As Long, ByVal ApcContext

I'm trying to find a technique to time the response of window applications -
in this case Windows Explorer (this is across a WAN environment so it can
take a number of seconds).
I start a new instance of explorer.exe and have handles to the 'editfield'

does anybody have a code example on how to use SendInput to send a
Unicode string?
I've been messing around with this method so long that I'm really
desperate now.

I have written a DLL in VB6 and I would like to make the functionality
available via DCOM.
I am finding all kind of references to DCOM, but can't seem to find any
instructions on how to set it up for use.

I want to hook into windows file handling routines to retrive information on
the files that applications open so I can display that in my program.  For
example, regmon (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html) hooks
into registry handling functions and reports what ...

is there a way to open windows color dialog to select color and set the
color number in my program?
and if so i'm using sql server as database, what is the best type of data to
save the color?

urgent how can i eject back tape useing VB6 api , i tried many ways but
i need some code , kindly you did it please send it