VB Forum / Win API / February 2007

Is anyone able to give me an example on how to scroll the contents of
a ListBox without forcing the user to click on the scroll up/down
internal buttons?
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Hi
Background:
I have a VB 6 app that calls the GetSystemInfo to locate the memory
addresses utilized by the app.  I then use the addresses to determine where

I am doing a final year project for my school and is going to provide
for an organization, so I am asking for some help on here.
Indeed, I have no idea on how to get the input from my pen driver and
use on vb2005 as when I activate the pen driver, it will run its own

Dear Sir,
How to Find Short Date Format set in Regional Setting & how we can change
it.
Sanjay Shah

I must be missing something simple, so any help would be appreciated.
What I am attempting to do is basically highlight a section of text in
a text box separate from the seltext property.  I am attempting to do
this by drawing my own rectangle around this text.

Dear Sir,
I had designed my own printer setup dialog box. In Windows Xp if printer is
not connected then it gives error report.
Is any method to find printer is connected and ready ?

Is the any way to get information about the disk device given a drive
letter? For example, I want to determine whether partitions "D" and "E"
reside on the same physical device.

Dears
im petroleum engineer
i want to create a program that enables the user to draw a pipeline system
which consists of pipeline segments,pumping station,valves

I have a VB6 'MyApp.exe' on an USB key.
I plug the key in the PC
and
run 'MyApp.exe' .

I would like to pass a byte array  as a subject of ShellExecute or
equivalent.  I.e. suppose I have read  for the sake of argument a .doc file
into a byte array B().  Is there a way to pass this to MSWord to open?
Dave

I'm trying to get the driver names of my serial ports, but I can't get this
working. I tried EnumPorts but it will not give me the name of the comport
like it is shown under Ports in Device Manager>Ports. Here I can see names
like Promag USB232(COM3). If I use the API, I only get ...

Writing an app in VB.NET 2005 which needs to load a registry hive.  As far as
I can determine, there isn't any managed code to do this (sigh), so I need to
revert to APIs.  Additional privileges need to be added to the current
process token before RegLoadKey can be used ...

I want to extend the Notepad (or any other external app's) menu and to be
informed when the user clicks this entry or the menu close entry. Is there
an example out here how to do this? Thanks.

hi group,
i'm trying to implement modal loop using API calls but have troubles
with keyboard navigation -- tab, enter and escape keys are no longer
working.

I have a VB6 application and now need to add communication with a USB 2.0
device. Unfortunately, I only have access to a C++ .lib file and not the
corresponding DLL. How can I use the .lib file or is it possible to convert
the lib to a dll