VB Forum / Win API / September 2008

I would like to know if there is a way to rename my VB6 process after it has
been launched.  There are some convoluted ways to achieve the same end
result, but I am wondering if there is a simple API that would easily do the
trick.

I've experienced a weird behavior of the SHGetFileInfo Win32 API on
Windows 2000 (not on XP).
For both versions (ANSI and Wide), an empty string is returned for
unregistered file types when running my application stand-alone.

I use DeviceIoControl to create four primary NTFS partitions on a HardDisk.
Partitions are created properly if I use a new Hard Disk,  but if I use an
HardDisk already formatted and erased,
often drive letters are assigned in revers order.

I have a plain Win32 App in which I'm trying to display an HTML resource
using ShowHTMLDialog.  It works okay, but it does not apply the window
ornaments that I specify in 4th argument of ShowHTMLDialog, pchOptions.  I
specify the dialog window size and make it resizeable.  Would ...

I was using DrawText API but found out in order to use DT_VCENTER
(center text vertically) it can only be used with DT_SINGLELINE (single
line), though I need to have DT_WORDBREAK (multi line) too, like how
text is shown in VB's check box.

I am a non-MFC programmer that primarily works in .NET as well as legacy VB 6.
In both of those high-level RAD language worlds, the platforms offer a
DoEvents() function.  It seems that DoEvents() is a non-filtered nested
message pump that is used to flush the message queue.  I ...

I'm using the mp3.bas from Michael Karathanasis for years in a little prog for mp3s.
(http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3227&d=994045718)
Since some days the above Api fails when is called by
API_mciSendString "open " & mmName & " type MPEGVideo alias mp3", 0, 0, 0

I have a code, which draws a figure (in fact a few figures) with PolyDraw.
How can I fill the figure with black color? It is a closed figure.
Regards,
t0mek

Just thought I'd ask this question before I attempt to go any further. I
have an application that uses a picture and an array of data. I'd like to
save both the picture and data in the same file and load it from the file.I
can do this using ADO or DAO but I'd prefer to not have ...

I'm trying to read the column header (SysHeader32) captions of an ListView. So far
I'm sure to have the right processID and handle (hWnd) , beacause I can successfully
read the right number of columns, but I do not get any text (caption) for each
column. I always get back an ...

I have an application where I want to redraw a polygon from points I
retrieve from a file.
The file is read with streamreader line by line each line contains the
points for each polygon.

Using VB6 and trying to interact with an instance of IE6.
I need my program to be able to scroll the scrollbars in IE. I suspect that
I can use SetScrollPos API, but how do I get the hwnd of the scrollbar (I
can get the hwnd of the main IE window, but not the Scrollbar)?

I'm writing a filecopier using APIs.  I've gotten everything working, but I
want to set the destination file's date stamps match the source file's.  I
can get the info using GetFileInformationByHandle, but I'm stumped on the
SetFileInformationByHandle.  I'm using the Unicode ...

I want to resize (change only the width of) another programs window. I have
gotten the handle to that window and think I will use the SetWindowPos API
with the noMove, noZorder flags (unless someone recommends a better API for
this).

How to find out the current scheme name and the OS name by means of Win32 API?
Thanks in advance.