VB Forum / Win API / July 2007

I want to write a program that feeds keystrokes to a Nexus Mainframe Terminal
window and reads the resulting screen updates. Can I do this with the Windows
XP Pro API, or do I need to buy an ActiveX control?
Thanks!

Did anyone experienced the following (unwanted) behavior that when using
the SetParent API, the child window becomes the active window?
How can I avoid this? The issue I'm running into is that my application
refreshes in the background and uses SetParent whenever new data is

I'm running application with CreateProcessWithLogonW with LOGON_WITH_PROFILE
parameter to access a folder that my user don't access. With this parameter
my application don't show my own documents and desktop folders, my printers,
etc.

just tried to register a certain file type which should be run by my vb
console application.
I've written a little scripting host and it should be able to just double
click script files in order to run the scripts.

I've been reading up on the API functions used in this example
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173085), but I can't figure out how to get
going with it.
The example passes "C:\Console\Debug\console.exe" to the argument cmdline$,

I have a verybasic question..
i have a form where on entering a date in date picker control 1, I want to
validate user to enter time in another datetime picker control..
so which event ideally it should be done, as its live DB connection, so

I need to PING one Lan Device in a cyclic fast time.
I try the code wtited by Rendy :
http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/internet/ping.htm
But even if i change the TimeOut the minTime was 500ms...!

I need to send ALT-S to another application.  I already have the window
handle, i.e.
dwHandle = FindWindow("Java.applcation", "Main Menu")
and have used it for other API calls.  However, I haven't been able to send

Could someone please explain me how Windows handles the date and time of a
file?
What I mean is:
Every file has 3 entries:

I retrieve with GetCursorPos the mouse position. I use the retrieved
coordinates to show a dialog.
As I run the app on a VMWare Image I have the problem, that GetCursorPos
returns me wrong values. The dialog is shown out of the visible area.

In Windows Edit controls "\" is treated as a word separator, e.g. when you
use Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to select whole words in a text. In VB, however,
"\" is not recognized as word boundary ("-" and space are) in TextBox or
ComboBox.

I have to write a function (to use in Access/Excel VBA and Visual Basic in
general) wich allows me to calculate the exact with of a string. Given the
font and corps (f.i. arial 12p).
I have to calculate this in order to feed a pretty basic printer (line by

   i'm having some problems while developing a cpp application,
   but the problem is strictly about winapi, so i think it's not OT.
   i'm trying to encapsulate the window-creation process
   into a class, so i got rid of the whole CALLBACK method

I have a VB configuration application which specifies configuration
information for a VC++ application.  One of the options is for the user to
specify an image which will be displayed on an owner-drawn button (of the
VC++ app).  The user can also "rubber-band" an area of that ...

I am looking for a comprehensive list of windows APIs available in XP.
I need to develop(or more accurately, have developed) an ASP.net page that
will utilize windows API to configure a device without any desktop, kind of
like the way the home wireless routers have that setup page ...