VB Forum / Win API / October 2006

Greetings all, sorry if I over do with the cross posts...
I've prowled around in all the places I can think of trying to find a
way to send and receive (that's the tricky part) PJL commands and
responses to printers connected direcly to a computer via USB or

I've been using the following code to play a wave file from a dll I created
just to hold a resource file
Dim hMod As Long
hMod = LoadLibraryEx(CurrentDBDir & "CustMan.dll", 0,

I have a list of all activeX controls registered on my system.
When i add one of these activeX controls to Windows Form on runtime ,
an exception is thrown if this activeX control is not licensed.
I want to check a specified activeX control whether it is licensed or

I have written a VB6 application that a user can start and let run in
background(by bringing other applications in front).
My program is doing some copy operations that can take several minutes.
I have seen that other windows apps start to blink in the taskbar in case

Probably a FAQ, but I couldn't find it (google is not always my friend :-(
I have an app that creates a 1300x1000 byte array which is, in the end,
really a gray scale image.  I'd like to save that image, preferably as a
TIFF, but any other "loss-less" format that I can convert to ...

my previous message was tabview but I want to say tableview sorry
I get a tableview control class in an application and I like to copy
selected
line and be able to insert them back after information added any of

To draw white text with a two pixel black border around it, I usually do
something like this (pseudo-code):
For k = -2 To 2
  For l = -2 To 2

I have a VB function that contains the following code:
Me.UseWaitCursor = True
(Do some CPU intensive processing - takes about 15 seconds)
Me.UseWaitCursor = False

Our VB6 application opens documents using shellexecute and the
following code:
lRet = ShellExecute(GetDesktopWindow(), sOperation, sFile, sArgs,
sDirectory, sShowCMD)

I want to delete a file before copying a newly generated file onto that
name. Specifically a newly generated excel file.
If the user has this file open with Excel, the delete fails.
I want to know if a file is available for deletion and if not, what

Dear
   I created an activeX control acts like the VB label control to solve the
Unicode problem of VB controls (VB controls are not Unicode), I used the
DrawTextW API to draw the text on the user control.