VB Forum / Win API / February 2008

Hi.  I have a geovision surveillance cctv card.  I need to encode and stream
live video to a web server.  Trying to use Windows Media Encoder but it
neither detects the capture device?
Any idea?

Hi,
I need someone to point me in the direction to solve the problem below.  
I have an app I wrote in VB6 that uses the winapi to see text in another
application and send keystrokes to it.  

I have an old "1994" integrated flat-panel display with
486dx4-100 computer.  Windows 98SE, Chips & technology video chip.
I want to use it as a GPIB controller.  The NI GPIB card won't run
in anything newer than win98 and I've only got 16MB of ram anyway.

I have a program that needs to be run on startup with administrator
privileges. How can this be done and work in Vista?  If I require the
application to run with administrator privileges and just create a
shortcut to it in the startup items, it never runs. I can't see any

I'm wondering if anyone has done any work on accessing the Boost
libraries. I'm particularly interested in the Regex (I know VBscript has
a regex engine, I'm looking at boost as a potential alternative). I
don't know c++ at all so am not sure how or where to start to make these

I have been beating my head against this for days...
Please can someone help me out.
I am trying to get access to any IE browser window that comes into
focus so I can use it's DOM for voice synthesising.

I'm trying to use the code below to capture the area of a picturebox to
another form. I'm using a horz bar value as a way to set the
magnification, but the problem is the height of the destination seems to
be larger then the width as it gets bigger and bigger, so for example a

I've used the subject APIs at least umpteen times.
Currently, I am asking for all "*.csv" files.
No problem.
However, when I renamed one of the files, say, Pizza.csv-x, The APIs also

When running a program on a computer in, say, Tokyo, I can get the UTC times
that correspond to the Tokyo times.
However, the program also needs to know the corresponding UTC Time for New
York.

seems like I am trying to fight a "feature" here. Well, maybe there is some
help.
I am developing a multi-window Office add-on. It's not MDI, and the windows
are not all the same. As I don't want to handicap users working with Office

We are developing a system tray application using WinInet which will upload
files to the server and will communiate with server through ASP pages.
I would like to like to know the limitations of WinInet, do's and dont's
known bugs, all WinInet Error Codes (msdn has only errors ...

I can't get GetProcAddress to return anything but 0.  The LoadLibrary
seems to work.
Full console app below:
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my Access app starts an instance of Word in an Acc97 form. So far I
have
complete control over Word, except in the circumstance that Word has
other "windows" (including dialogs like the printing dialog) open.

Hiya,
    I'm sure many of us have seen the vbAccelerator code for DIB
sections. In the code, Steve aliases an array variable to point to
existing data stored elsewhere.

Hi. I've been given the following task
Some of our "precious" docs will be saved in a shared folder on the
network. Only some people will have access to that folder. Those
people are supposed to print those docs, BUT ONLY IN COLOR - BW