VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

I am using the GetActiveWindow() API but it returns 0
I have a remote that I activate this code with:
Code:
WinAmpHandler = GetActiveWindow

I have a list of pictures that when I click on one, it shows up in a
Picturebox.
Now I want to slide show to the next picture after 5 seconds.  I know how to
get the next picture, but I don't know how to wait 5 seconds without locking

If I have an 8-byte floating point number  in hex how do I convert it to a
double?
0 0 0 0 0 98 C1 3F  this should be about .13746
Thanks

I've been looking for deployment options and I fell upon QSetup at
www.pantaray.com
My app is not complicated enough to use a 400$ prog like InstallSheild or
SetupFactory, but I was just wondering if any one has used this before or

I am wondering...
Can I start a program with the shell Command like WinAmphWnd =
shell("Path",1)
That will give me the hWnd in the WinAmphWnd  variable when I use it to

I have been reading web tips and newsgroup postings all day on
something I though would be a piece of cake.  Here is what I need to
do - simply compare two Worksheets, using FOR loops with indices.
This is the same as the old "step through an array using i and k

I want my program to send a mouse click to the window at the current mouse
position, how do I do that?
Example:
I have my mouse over a button in Word and then my program is sending the

I put a WindowsMdiaPLayer-control on a form and now I encounter some
problems for
which I can't find a solution.
I opened Form1.frm in a text-editor and found the following controls for the

My program is so simple.  Its just a picturebox and a list of pictures.
When the user clicks on the list of pictures, the picture he clicked is
displayed in the picturebox.  This all works fine.
MY QUESTION IS:

My company frequently sends out upgrades to our Jornada handhelds
which are running a program written in VB.  I thought it might be cool
to extract this info. and look at the programming.  What I downloaded
from the last update were several files with the ext of vb.  I cannot

Is there a more economical and efficient way of coding the following...
It seems like an awful lot of If statements! Can't think of a better way of
coding it myself.
Also, the 'On Error Resume Next' part just skips past files that have the

I'm making tickets for our church play.  They want them numbered so instead
of just making them on something like Visio, printing a master sheet and
then copying them, I volunteered (or at least someone volunteered me) to
print them out on a laser printer and have them sequentially ...

I have done some developments with VB6, I need to develop a standard
d/e logic so I started with a form class. But I do not know how far
VB6 allows me to use inheritance. eg. if I want my form class to have
a form close event. How to inherit that to the child form?

Hi group,
Here's a problem I've been trying to solve for the past several weeks.  I
have the standard WebBrowser object added to a form so it can access
websites, and I have it load a default page once the form is launched.  I

How can I create the Explorer Bar found in Windows XP. Are there any sample
projects anywhere.