VB Forum / Win API / August 2007

Is there an api that I can use that will allow me to Get/Set the file
version info of any exe or dll?

Has anyone used this dll?  It is a C dll written by J. Thuemmler and
distributed by allapi.net.  It allows me to monitor messages and
catch
messages from another application.

Hi
I've a VB6 desktop application (Vb6 Enterprise edition with SP1 installed)
I'm getting a runtime error '30468' while i'm executing an exe on the
following line

My question is:
with the WMI i get the serial number of cpu or hard disk.
But i see in the registry and serialnumbers is stored in the registry.
When i get a method from WMI: where the class read the value ???

I have written a VB6 app that reads the creation time of a file.
For this I call
GetFileTime hFile, typCreateTime, typAccessTime, typLastWriteTime
FileTimeToLocalFileTime typCreateTime, typLocalFileTime

I'd like to open a menu in an external windows app and select an item using
VB and Win32 -- I've figured out how to click a button and populate an edit
control with text. If anyone knows hwo to accomplish this in VB, I'd
appreciate it. Thanks!

VB6
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Is there a very straightforward way to get the cpu usage value if I know the
ProcessID?  I have the PID, but need to CPU usage value.

In Internet Explorer (I use 6.0 ), there is a check box to enable/
disable automatic configuration script. Is there any way to check /
uncheck this option using Win API ( that can be implemented in VB
6.0 ) ?

we have an application that stores different kinds of docs
in a DB (virtually any kind of doc).
Users can open the doc using ShellExecute. Docs are edited in
the associated application.

I use two Listviews. I want to drag and drop items from Listview1 to
Listview2.
I use following code:
Private Sub ListView1_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x

I am trying to convert a C# IFilter Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW) to VB2005
or 2003. Basically, my problem is that the C# 'ComImport' attribute cannot be
used in VB. This is documented in KB313506:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313506/en-us?spid=7796&sid=global). And as it

BACKGROUND:
I have several grouped shapes in an Excel worksheet that comprise my own
homemade treeview control. I want a tooltip to pop-up when I hold the mouse
pointer over a treeview node (grouped shape). The below appended code does

My application needs to monitor another application, wait until a Save
File dialog comes up,
and then get the current directory - using CDM_GETFOLDERPATH.
Detecting the save dialog is easy: basically a FindWindow and DoEvents

Hello,how i obtain the friendly name of a file .ttf ??
I install in the system well but not get the name of the font in the file
.ttf
Thanks in advance.

Can someone please provide an outline of the steps needed to intercept Mouse
Down messages within an application.  I want one Form in my application to
listen for MouseDowns within the same application, (there could be several
forms open) and when MouseDown is detected (other ...