VB Forum / Win API / March 2009

I am attempting to simulate the clicking of a context menu item in another
processes child window.
Normally, to activate menu items in another processes window, I would send
the WM_COMMAND and the menu ID in the wParam and it worked fine.

My form is 400x200.  There are no controls on it, just lines and
circles.  I'm trying to copy the contents of the form to the
clipboard. I do it using the clipboard object and the copied image is
always 640x480.  That's the screen size, actually.  But it is not the

I'm using the Stretchblt api to copy a portion of the screen
into a Picturebox
on w98, me, 2000, nt, xp all is ok
on Vista, when the "Windows Vista Basic" is active all is ok

I see how to "get" information from the Summary tab of the Properties page
for a file by using the ShellFolderItem.ExtendedProperty() method/function
but how do I "set" them.

Im having a problem with NormalizeString in normaliz.dll
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd319093(VS.85).aspx
Destionation string buffer is always 0, any ideas?
Private Declare Function NormalizeString Lib "normaliz.dll" (ByVal norm_form

Hi;
If this is the wrong forum, please tell me which forum to hit.
I am writing a VBA applet for Excel (and Excel only). By way of
background - I have a ton of experience writing C# (including Excel

I am running a .exe file via VB using shell function it is not working
but same thing working fine in windows 2003 server what could be the
reason. Any anybody knows please let me the steps to resolve the
issue.

I am using the URLDownloadToFile API to download files from
<http://192.120.13.77/Data/Public/E_AUST/Archive/>
This fails as there is an interim disclaimer page that appears first,
and an "I Agree" button needs to be clicked.  Consequently, the use of

Can you say to me how to convert this code into VB6 or inferior.
Thank you
struct CHUNK_HEADER
{

I've written a TextBox control which supports Unicode. It superclasses
the native "EDIT" control of Windows. You can download it here:
http://www.timosoft-software.de/index.php/downloads/editcontrols/
One thing that I can't get working is Unicode support for input sent

I'm trying to use the GetCursorPos function. I did this:
1) A created Module. In this module I have this code:
   Public Structure POINTAPI
       Public x As Long

I've got a circle on my form.  It was created with the standard vb
circle ( ) function.
For what it's worth, I'm using vb 5.
At any rate, my circle is empty. I need to fill this circle using the

But no matter what I try, I can not get it to shell properly from VB. If i
open a cmd window and paste it in, works fine. Start->Run works fine.
Ive tried:
Shell(rundll32 printu...blah)

Is there a way to detect date and time of the last print job
Windows did send to any - or much better to a given -
printer driver?
I have connected three printers and would like to know the