VB Forum / Win API / November 2008

Ciao a tutti,
ho fatto un piccolo programma con il ce toolkit di vb6 per un pocket
pc per la lettura di un file di testo.
La GestFileAttributes mi ritorna l'handle del file correttamente, però

I am working on the Project of "Page Turn Effect" for the Pocket PC.
If any one can give me the idea or send me the sample code of page
turning effect in MFC.

I'm having a problem when using the SHBrowseForFolder API with the
BIF_NEWDIALOGSTYLE flag on a XP computer where a group policy has been set to
stop the user from viewing the C drive.
When the folder browse dialog is displayed the user is presented with an

WinXPProSP2/Office 2003: I'm programming in MS Access VBA and need to call a
WinAPI function.  I'm new to coding API calls, so I don't yet understand the
conventions very well.
My specific goal is to determine the number of pixels per physical inch of

Does anybody have a good VB6 sample code that sorts a list of files
retrieved using FindFirstFile/FindNextFile by date/time?
Regards
Peter

I call FindWindowEX function in vb2005 and can not get correct result.
can your guys give me a clue
thank
Declare Auto Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal

I am working on a data storage application which will manager CD/DVD
changer (Jukebox).  The changer has two drives one of which will be
used to write data and the other will be used to handle read
requests.  Additionaly the changer has 200 slots in which to store

I can easily position my form where I want it. But how do I dock it so that
it deducts from the available windows desktop size? (I don't want other
windows to overlap my form.)
Thanks for your help,

In my VB6 app I like to change the windowstate of an external app(IE6) from
"iconic" to normal.
My app already knows the right handle(hwnd).
I tried ShowWindow(hwnd,SW_SHOW) but this doesn't work.

maybe sb can help me in this case
Trying to get a screenshot of the entire display screen i found a lot of
code to do so in the internet.
With little changes the way of proceeding is nearly the same as in this

Can anyone help me giving idea to read a word or character before cursor
from any text area of windows? I'm writing a program for global hooking of
keyboard. I need to read character before cursor position anywhere in windows
(word, text pad, address bar etc.). Is there any API ...

subject it self
coz' i post msg. here but i did not find any reply. and any new post  from
other also.
thanks.

Can anybody tell me how I can find the drive letter assigned to the CD/
DVD drive(s) inside a jukebox type disc changer.
Following is the device path as returned by a call to
SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail

I have some VB code that uses URLDownloadToFile to grab a simple HTML
file from a 3rd party website.  The issue is that the website will
only give me that file if I've logged in first.
So what I did was put an IE control on my form, navigate to the login

I'm migrating my VB2005 to VB2008.  There're some Win32 API in my original
VB2005 project such as SystemParametersInfo, ShowWindow, SendMessage, etc.  
The code analysis tool told me that I should move such P/Invokes methods to
either nativemethods, safenativemethods, ...