VB Forum / Win API / June 2007

I want to force a VB window to be modal above another application (ie :
autocad
or similar) by using an api function like setWindowPos. But i have only
found how to put my vb window on the top of all windows, not only above the

Hi..
I need to create a translucent Static Form in VBA(Access) with
BackGroundColor.
I built it with this code:

Hi, everybody,
I'm using a modified code (below) from
 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295004
 How to use high-level access control APIs from Visual Basic

I have a VB6 application which displays a PDF file using the
shellexecute command. This was working fine with version 7 but with
version 8 it returns the error 'file not found'. The command is:
ShellExecute GetDesktopWindow(), "Open", frmPlot.PreviewFile, "", "",

How can i using TextOut API WITHOUT anti-alias under WinXP?
Thanks a lot!

I'm not sure, but reference MSDN ChangeDisplaySettingsEx can rotate screen
if video driver support it. I try the third part products like IRotate and
Pivot Pro and find that it really works. I have ATI (AMD) video and
Catalist driver can rotate screen easy as well.

with the corresponding APIs I tried to use the following code in order to
monitorif an application I have started it terminated:
Public Sub fAppControl(taskID As Double)
 Dim lRetValue As Long

I need to take a string representation of a GUID and convert it to a GUID
data type. I see the API StringToGuid looks just to be what I need. But I
can't find any MS documentation on it so I can't figure out how to declare
it in my project. Does anyone know what the declaration ...

Could anybody help me to configure the call for the MixerOpen-Api, so
that it returns the mixerdevice of the default mixer, that is set in
setup - sound properties - audio?
MixergetNumDevs returns 4 devices on my system, and the call of

WINSETUPAPI BOOL WINAPI
 SetupDiLoadClassIcon(
   IN LPGUID  ClassGuid,
   OUT HICON  *LargeIcon,  OPTIONAL

Hi experts,
We want to obtain character index given a mouse position but
SendMessage with EM_CHARFROMPOS always return -1, please advice.
Public Const EM_CHARFROMPOS = &HD7

Dear Sir,
I had developed application in VB 6.
It is possible to find that Application is running under remote connection.
Sanjay Shah