VB Forum / Win API / April 2007

I am trying to create a GUI where just by clicking a button some code
can be submitted in Mainframe. I can open the session using shell
function. Can anybody tell me how I can pass some strings (for
username and pwd) and Tab and Enter keys starting from the cursor

How can I get a list of devices in the Sound CP of Vista? And which is the
current default device?
Thanks!!

I wonder if there is a way to implement a callback in VB-6
passing and storing the address of a function to an object
and then from time to time call this function, also
with different 'actual' params each time.

I've tried two API calls to shut off my monitor.  Both are returning
non-errors:
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SendMessageA" _

Met this issue, when I tried to play different audio-files with the
associated application.
On my station, mp3 are associated to VLC-Player, m4a to realplayer.
VLC needs this call:

I want to read all Drives and show it in a ComboBox in an Excel VBA
Programm. Can i do this with GetLogicalDrive? Have u an example?
Thanks for your help.
Andy

hi friends, im new into Visual Basic 6, but finally i got a nice
software.  Just one thing, i cant read the last character the scanner
is sending.  It send a CR and LR characters, i dont know if that is
erasing the last one.

Hello,i need know the api that play an  avi file.
Thanks in advance.

I'm here to talk to you about an Open Source project named Vb System Library
As you can see in its name, it is a library that contains functions that
permits to get a lot of information of the system, thanks to the windows
API.

I am trying to write a little utility and it needs to check the startup type
of a given service on a remote machine and, if it is disabled, set it to
manual. I have found out how to do this on the local machine using
ServiceInstaller.StartType, but I cannot seem to find a way to ...

I use numerous API calls that I need to pass callback address to...
I get "Add a delegate for AddressOf EnumWindowsProc"
Help shows how to declare a delegate for a callback, but the example does
not show the callback routine and how it is hooked by the delegate.

I have worked on the code to change the description field in the
Services.msc, so I can keep track of which services should be running.
This was done by reading the description from:
Dim msc As ManagementScope = New ManagementScope("\\" & _

I've been looking a bit here and there but couldn't find any explanation on
how to react to the following windows events:
- deleting a file
- renaming a file

What I wanna do:
I want to save a specific area of the desktop to a bmp-file. For now I can
save a screenshot of the whole desktop to a file. What I lack is the ability
to only put a region of the screenshot to a file.

My code copies all files from off of a removable flash drive to the
local hard drive, then calls the "SHFormatDrive" api and attempts to
format the drive to prepare it for use again (often times the flash
drive will have corrupt files on it).