VB Forum / Win API / July 2006

I would like to override the regional settings (e.g. for the decimal char
and the thousand separator) within an application. Is this possible and more
important... how?
Thx,

If a form A is launched within a parent window modally, clicking on the
parent window automatically activates the modal form. However if the the
modal form is an out of process activex control, clicking on the main window
does not activate the form. Is there a way that this can ...

This issue I face since very long time.
In my VB6 project, I show several BMP and Jpeg Images
one after other like a Slide Show.
My PC becoming slower after few hours.

The caret (= text insertion point) of the MSWord editor
isn't a standard one
and I can't track it (position, visibility...)
with  GetCaretPos or with any other function.

I've searched just about everywhere I can think of to try to find a sample
program to use Telnet from Windows to a UNIX host.
I don't care, necessarily, that it is written in VB.NET 2005 although that
would be ideal.

I am tring to detect memory card is inserted or removed. I can detect CD or
DVD arrival or removal with WM_DEVICECHANGE.
Even I can detect USB device is plugged with RegisterDeviceNotification()
and WM_DEVICECHANGE notification but memory cards :(

I would like to put all the DLLs and OCXs my VB6 application uses in the same
folder as my exe, and have the exe use these instead of any other DLLs and
OCXs that may be installed (and registered) elsewhere.
I mean here mainly the standard DLLs and OCXs such as Dblist32.ocx, not ...

Using VB6.0 SP5 on XP-Pro SP2
I would like not to use the CommonDialog Box Control if there is
an API that will allow me to open the printer dialog box, and print
the same as I would with the control.

I am trying to adjust the Creation and Modification times for a file by  5
hours.
However, the time is getting adjusted by only 1 hour when I view the file in
windows explorer.

First, has Windows 2000 been updated to reflect the changed spec for when we
switch to Daylight time is the USA next March?
And what about such changes in other regions?
If this hardcoded into Win 2000, we are stuck.

I am having some problem for getting values in struct from the c dll.
I have following definition
Type MBRINFO
  szMember       As String * 80 ' member name array

Hello,
I am trying to use the PaintDesktop API to paint the MDI Form with the
desktop wall paper. While the declaration for PaintDesktop is in the standard
Module, I am using the following code:

From VB6 I'm using a webbrowser control to load and print html files:
.ExecWB OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER,
PRINT_WAITFORCOMPLETION, 0
I'd like to set the margins on the printout, but I don't see any to do

Please help,
I am writing an app that requires me to get data from a Gupta childtable.
I have googled this to the max
and found absolutely nothing

I'm trying to get a char when a user righ clcks in a RichTextBox, but I keep
geting
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in
system.windows.forms.dll