VB Forum / Win API / June 2008

I have a VB6 app with a somewhat complication user interface screen. The UI
consists of a grid through which the user can navigate from entry to entry.
As each entry is focused, data is retrieved from the application database
(synchronous) while, at the same time, an embedded ...

Have a VBA and VB6 project with some 140 different Windows API calls plus
all the corresponding structures, constants and enums.
As it looks neat and as I understand there might be some performance gain
(on startup) I had a go at putting all

I have an app with a parent frame and need to find the child window which is
topmost (top of the z-order, I think).
I have tried using the EnumChildWindows() api, but this doesn't seem to give
me the child windows in the correct order (ie, top window first).

Hi, I used ShellExecute API to open some Excel and Access files. However it
gives "can't start because there is no license for it on this machine"
message in some computers. We are using Office 2003.
I cheked the HKEY CLASSES ROOT registry permissions and no problem with it.

The MonthView Common control has the ability to send notifications to
the app to get a list of dates to show bolded.
Does anyone know if it possible to hook into this for the DTPickers
dropdown control?

I have an app (VB6 of course) that, among other things, downloads some
data from SQLServer. This is an in-house only application. The user
has to log in to access the server data but all users use the same
login ID.

It looks the API IsTextUnicode is not reliable even when it repeatedly runs
on the same string.
So, it can give False or True on the same string. Am I doing something wrong
or is this API indeed

I have written a communication app. in VB6 that uses the Winapi functions to
access the serial Interface(createfile,etc).
In general my app works OK but occassionally I get bufferoverruns and
therefore I loose some data ALTHOUGH I use RTS/CTS flowcontrol.

Is it possible to do this in a TypeLib:
Declare Function VarPtrArray Lib "msvbvm60.dll" _
                            Alias "VarPtr" _
                            (Var() As Any) As Long

I need to access the icons that window uses for my file management dialog,
similar to OPENFILENAME dialog.
For example the icon for directory, icon for directory, icon for backup to
higher directory, etc in order to have consistant look as in Windows

Hey All,
I would like to prevent the taskbar from updating.  I have seen code that
hides / unhides, like that below:
Dim handleW1 As Long

hello, all,
i have a winapi question regarding some GetOpenFileName behavior.
it's not a language matter but i can find no other winapi group that looks more
appropriate. if there is one, please advise.

I`m writting a network monitor using Qt 4.3 library. I`m using some classes
like a QNetworkInterface QAddressEntry etc. My program runs correctly on
Unix and I get names of interface like "eth0" or "lo". But in Qt
documentation there is a description:

I need to access the icons that window uses for my file management dialog,
similar to OPENFILENAME dialog.
For example the icon for directory, icon for file, icon for backup to higher
directory, etc in order to have consistent look as in Windows

    I am current working on a VSTO based Outlook Addin Project for office
2003 and 2007. I need to do rendering on newly created CommandBar of
Outlook. I mean to say i want to change the color of CommandBar with
Specified RGB color value.