VB Forum / Win API / December 2006

Using getpixel and setpixel I have made a crude kind of painting
program for my kids and they are quite happy about it. But I want to
make the colors on the screen behave in a similar way to the way paint
pigments do on paper. In other words I want a shade of green to appear

hi all;
i asked to do some pattern recognition things in movie frames, so i need
image processing on each frame of movie, i know how to get frames in AVI
movies but i need it to work with any type of movie ... is there any code or

i m more interested in low level image manipulation. can anyone suggest
me how to extract  many images (many images on a black background) join
them as if it were a jigsaw puzzle.it is an  exercise that my com
teacher gave.. all i m able to do is to read that image! thats it...

Ok, I thought I understand pretty well the details of 'ByVal String'
params in VB6 Declare statements and how VB6 marshals the string
between BSTR and ANSI, but I want to make sure I've got it right.
Basically, my current understanding of ByVal String parameters in API

Hi to everyone,
I have no idea whether this group is the right one for my problem so I just
try (and maybe I'm lucky:-)
I'm getting nowhere in trying to play a .wav-file using the function

We have a vb.net object that creates a bitmap and eventually renders it to an .EMF file; then it is viewed via Internet Explorer.  The second rectangle renders as transparent if the color is from RGB 253,253,253 through Color.White.  From 252,252,252 on "down" paints as coded.
We ...

How can a "normal" user enumerate all processes on a terminal server?
WTSEnumerateProcesses only succeed, if a user belongs to admin group.

I need to write a function that will return True or False indicating whether
a specified date is in the Daylight Savings Time period for that year. The
year of the date may or may not be the current year.  I thought that the
GetTimeZoneInformation API would be of use to test a ...

want to give in where I can find the stamp in my books).and in each
book I can put 50 stamps (with documentations about the composer and
his works, where he was born, died, ....). So I have created two fields
who can count in the tabel stamps  wehere I made a field composers that

       Iam facing problems with VB Timers and application is Running
in RealTime. In this application iam using Two Timers one is
5ms(milliseconds) and another Timer is 500 ms (milliseconds), This
process is at HOST side. In this HOST Application there are Some

How do i read and write ini file using vb.net?

I have a form1 through which a form2 is opened which has a picture box
in which a user control is loaded but the problem is
if I opens the form1, calls form2 and then close form2 and do this for
25 times the following error occurs:

The code below is used to create a transparent window region around some
controls on a form -- it works just fine.
Everytime I execute the code below however, I'm eating some serious GDI
resources due to an apparent memory leak. My guess is that it's because I'm

Gretings,
  My name is Nathaniel, and I had a former topic dealing with a
problem with using multi-threading in VB6.0. Essentially the problem
i'm experiencing is that I created a C++ DLL which creates a thread.

I am new to this group.
I want to use "PrintDlgA" function of comdlg32.dll
Now i have win32 dll. so I cant use registered OCX which needs MFC
support.