api function?

[da_silvy]

how do i use

Public Declare Function GetWindowsDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetWindowsDirectoryA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, ByVal nSize As Long) As Long

also, i have microsoft spy++ so how do i find the handle of ie, then change its title? setwindowtext maybe???

[mattbrown]

Dim Path as String, strSave as string
'Create a buffer string
strSave = String(200, Chr$(0))
'Get the windows directory 
Path = Left$(strSave, GetWindowsDirectory(strSave, Len(strSave)))
'The left$ strips the trailing spaces

Hope this helps

[HeSaidJoe]

'find the windows directory path
'usefull in shell commands if you know something
'is in the windows directory
'example..instead of shell c:\windows\notepad.ext
'you could use shell windir$ & /notepad.exe
'if windows was stored in E:/Windows then you wouldn't get an error
'if you used shell c:/windosw\notepad.exe, it couldn't be found '(error)
'
Option Explicit

Private Declare Function GetWindowsDirectory _
Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetWindowsDirectoryA" _
(ByVal lpBuffer As String, ByVal nSize As Long) As Long
'
Private Sub Form_Load()
'
    Dim strFindWinDir$, WinDir$
'
        WinDir$ = Space(144)
        strFindWinDir$ = GetWindowsDirectory(WinDir$, 144)
        WinDir$ = Trim(WinDir$)
'
        MsgBox "The Windows Directory Path is: " & WinDir$
'
End Sub

[alex_read]

http://www.vbapi.com/ref/g/getwindowsdirectory.html

2 above are completely right, to read up more on it though, heck out the above.

Originally posted by da_silvy
also, i have microsoft spy++ so how do i find the handle of ie, then change its title? setwindowtext maybe???

Put the following into a Form with a CommandButton. When you click it, IE (if open) will have its title changed to "New Title For IE".

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim hApp As Integer
    Dim NewTitle As String
    
    NewTitle = "New Title for IE"
    hApp = FindWindow("IEFrame", vbNullString)
    If hApp <> 0 Then SetWindowText hApp, NewTitle
End Sub

[da_silvy]

how do i find the name i.e "IEFRAME" to change the title of ie

for example

who do i find the name for other instances of ie or msn messenger or vb?