VB Forum / Win API / September 2006

I have a Visual Basic 6 application which performs a long-running
procedure in a loop (10 min).
When the user shifts focus to another application and then restores
focus to my application, a blank white screen appears and the screen is

I've added an icon to the system tray and it pops up a balloon tip. After
the tip is shown, I want to be able to get the width and height (and if
possible, the location) of the balloon. How would I do this?

I want a window to remain on top but allow you to use another application in
the background (where it's not covering it) just like Task manager. how
would i do this?

I'm having the same problem as the original poster. I'm using Win2K
with service pack 2. The code I've written works on XP without a
problem but in win2k it never receives any balloon events. is this a
known problem for win2k service pack 2?

I have a MS Access form which I use to get a number of user inputs and
pass the parameters to a Shell program. I want the Shell program to
complete before continuing to execute the Visual basic code since my VB
code uses the output of the shell program. This is a sample test code

I found this code to print unicode characters using form 2.0 object library
fm20.dll.
Private Declare Function TextOutW Lib "gdi32.dll" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal
x As Long, ByVal Y As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal nCount As Long)

I'm trying to flash the caption bar of an MDI Child Form, but the colour of
the bar occasionally gets out of step with the Form's active state. I can't
figure out whether this is a bug or something I'm doing incorrectly.
I've tried both the FlashWindow and FlashWindowEx APIs, but ...

I am developing an application to captures images after fixed interval
using USB camera. Everything is working fine. But if camera gets
disconnected inbetween i continuously get the last frame captured
before the disconnection.

We have a application requirement, which is as follows
* The desktop needs to be captured and shared over internet.
* At least two frames per second needs to captured and transmitted.
With these requirements in mind, I would like to know the following

Can anyone help with the declares required for the DLRegisterType2CallDeltas
function below?
Thanks in advance.
Rob

I've been asked to try and make the caret (the vertical bar indicating the
insertion point) more visible in Word for a visually-impaired user.
The options in the Windows XP Control Panel don't have any effect, namely:
Control Panel > Accessibility Options > Display >

I use the following code:
Public Function RegGetKeyValueP(strKey As String, strSubKey As String) As
String
       Dim lngSubkeyHandle As Long

I'm trying to share a folder with following function:
Public Function ShareAdd(sServer As String, _
                         sSharePath As String, _
                         sShareName As String, _

Is there an API to retrieve the friendly name for the display driver
(graphics card)?
eg "GeForce4 MX 420" just as displayed on tab of Display settings.

I wrote a 'menu' for our applications in VB that 'shells' and remembers the
windows taskID.  If the user tries to run an application twice I tell then
it's already running (they would see it if they would just look at the
taskbar).  What API call would 'restore' the application ...