VB Forum / Win API / July 2006

I'm wondering how to enumerate and use the installed speech engines
(e.g SAPI) using API calls.
Thanks for help,
Jens

*Crossposted from excel.programming * Apologies for the cross-posting, but
the Excel boards are more focused on VBA: this board may be a better forum
for VB code and Windows API programming.
Many years ago, Chip Pearson published code to widen the  'named ranges'

What is the equivalent in VB6 for the following C# structure:
Public Struct Info
{
   [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst=260)]

When I set the picture property of the MDIForm to a paritcular file, the
picture does not occupy the entire portion of the MDIForm. Instead some part
of the MDIForm still shows the default colour instead of the picture. Now if
i change the screen resolution to 800 by 600 pixels ...

I am looking for any errata or updated apv database files for APIViewer
2004 v3.10 and also the source material that the supplied database was
constructed from.  I hope that although VB6 is no longer supported by
Microsoft that the source files may have been updated since the ...

The MCI_SET command for MCISendCommand of MCI_SET_AUDIO_ALL with
MCI_SET_ON or MCI_SET_OFF flags is not supported by the Video_Overlay
device.
That means I cannot mute an AVI unless I set the Silent property of an

Can someone tell how to get the IP address from a given Computername? Maybe
I only need some functions (or one) from wscock32.dll but which one?
Thanks alot
Nijazi Halimaji

I hope somebody can help me here...
I'm trying to build a VB app that would install a true type font by
creating a shortcut in the Fonts Folder. This is the method I prefer,
since it keeps the original file in c:\myfonts and thus avoids

Can someone tell me what this function do in detail? I searched in the
internet but I only find some bad descriptions... If I want not to use this
function is there a workaround getting the same result?
Thanks for every answer!

we're using the code from this article to obtain the owner of a file:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;Q218965
The problem is we're calling it for about 700,000 files that are on a
server.