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Hello, I'm using the mp3.bas from Michael Karathanasis for years in a little prog for mp3s. ( http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmenti d=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 but only in some mp3-files. I cannot ...

Hi, 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 empty string for each column-text, although ...

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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. Below is a typical line from my file. 500,748 500,678 552,678 552,696 584,696 584,714 612,714 612,748 Each set of x,y coordinates is ...

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 versions because we often encounter very long paths here. ...

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). The question is which API to use to get the current size of the window so that I only modify ...

Dear all I need to write a VB6 app that periodically sends a keystroke(F5 key) to certain windows apps. I know, I can use the Sendkeys statement for this but in my case I can't use it because: -the app(s) i want to send the keystroke to are not in focus and should not get in focus -there will be several apps with ...

I send continuously data to another window using its hWnd and SendMessage. I can find the hWnd each time iterating through the list of available windows, but I am searching for something faster, like a function "IsWindowStillAlive(hWnd)" or so. Does something like that exist? I can't trust that the target hWnd ...

Hi all, I'm trying to remove 2 pictureboxes and do the work with memory HDC's This is what is causing my problem, whichever HDC is created first seems to work fine but the second HDC is just a black picture. Sub Setup_HDCs() Dim MyBM As StdPicture Set MyBM = PictureFromDC(picShown.hDC, 0, 0, picShown....

The advantages of unit testing are well known, giving development teams a safety net to facilitate change, ease integration and supply live documentation.Unit testing of small logical code is quite easy and can show value quickly. But in real life, our code will use other classes and components. If this happens, things can get quite ...