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    Re: Manifest Creator II - Tips, Notes, Etc

    Hello LaVolpe, are you still active on VB6?

    I used that language for a small updating tool, but recently Windows Defender made some trouble with false alarms (but not on my own system). Therefore...
  2. Re: Find window state of another application

    Ok, I am a little late for this question, I know...
    But it might help all, who find this thead via a web search. :)


    Yes, the most simple way would probably to use following API functions:

    ...
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    Re: Clarity Visual Menu Editor

    I did search on the whole internet (including PSC) for both: useful projects and Clarity Visual Menu Editor.
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    Clarity Visual Menu Editor

    Hello VB developers,

    I am searching for an alternative to the VB menu editor, since it has following downsides:
    - no ratio buttons available
    - no Unicode support
    - no icon support (ok, this is...
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    Re: LoadImage issue #2

    Thanks for the explaination.


    I tried your code and I can confirm: Err.Clear does delete the 100, Debug.Print Err.LastDllError does not.
    But now compare with my screen shots (it shows always the...
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    Re: LoadImage issue #2

    Yes, with ordinal 167 also my code works. :D - But thank you for your exploratory additions. They are very helpful. :)



    Here I would set the ScaleMode of the Form to pixels and use its...
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    LoadImage issue #2

    Yes, normally I do add the ampersand to all hex values to ensure, that it is not a negative Integer.
    But I used the ApiViewer to generate the LR_SHARED declaration and just pasted it without any...
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    Re: Convert String into Currency

    Yes, therefore you wrote the comment. You wanted to show advantages of your function compared to CCur() an Val()




    I don't know about smiley faces as decimal separator, but there were a lot in...
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    Re: LoadImage issue

    But in fact it was the evildoer:

    The example project used following LR_SHARED definition:

    Private Const LR_SHARED As Long = &H8000&

    And the ApiViewer gave me this LR_SHARED definition...
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    Re: LoadImage issue

    Interesting. It seems, that on Win7 the 16x16 pixel icon cannot be loaded in this particular project, if the LR_SHARED flag is used.


    Running it from the IDE does show the icon, because in this...
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    Re: Convert String into Currency

    I also havn't seen it initially too: the question is about how to convert a string into a currancy value, not about showing such currancy value.

    But the solution was already given by dilettante:
    ...
  12. Re: [RESOLVED] Placing an Image in a Word Document - First Page

    It would be good to post your solution here:
    Maybe someone else has the same question and is finding your topic through a web search.
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    Re: Convert String into Currency

    This is giving me on my system following result:
    833.235.433.555.332,63 €

    VB uses the system settings for showing numbers - this means, you don't have to do anything: your number will be shown in...
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    LoadImage issue

    Hi all,

    I wrote an Icon class to easily handle 32bit icons in VB6. I used following project as example: Systray Icon
    The problem, which I am facing is, that in my class one icon cannot be loaded...
  15. Re: VB - Displaying balloon tips in system tray.

    Is there an updated version available, which supports new NOTIFYICONDATA features like custom ballon tip icons?
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    Re: VB port from C++

    I found another project, which looks pretty good:
    http://foren.activevb.de/cgi-bin/foren/archivview.pl?forum=13&id=b28d79487cfe2cba00566bc130a5e8f4&msg=1207&page=1&root=1201

    The project itself...
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    Re: VB port from C++

    You are AWESOME LaVolpe!!! - That project is a gem! :cool:

    I'll bet I can use this technique in future. For my current problem I am not sure... - if I can use it, then I am just one step further:...
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    Re: VB port from C++

    Unfortunatelly me too! :confused:


    What is this IClassFactory? How can I declare it?
    You are talking about an instance. Can interfaces really be instanciated?
    As far as I know, a factory is a...
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    Re: VB port from C++

    Hello LaVolpe, thank you for your suggestion.

    Your idea will work - it is the way which I like to replace.

    The CLSID is only available for a registered class.
    - But I like to find a way, to to...
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    Re: VB port from C++

    Ok, but I need it for VB6.

    How can following line ported:


    typedef HRESULT (__stdcall *pDllGetClassObject)(IN REFCLSID rclsid, IN REFIID riid, OUT LPVOID FAR* ppv);

    ?
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    VB port from C++

    Hey guys, is it possible to port following code to VB6:



    HRESULT __stdcall MyCoCreateInstance(
    LPCTSTR szDllName,
    IN REFCLSID rclsid,
    IUnknown* pUnkOuter,
    IN REFIID riid,
    OUT...
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    Re: @LaVolpe: your Thunker

    Hello LaVolpe,

    I wanted to let you some more time - not bombing you with too much questions again. ;)

    If you have an answer to a few of my last questions, I would be really glad.


    No, I am...
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    Re: @LaVolpe: your Thunker

    Hello LaVolpe!

    Sorry for asking too many questions at once!

    Thank you very much for your helpful explainations. - Here I have a question to it:

    From this I do understand, that nothing...
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    Re: Multi-threaded Callback

    Hello LaVolpe!


    Oh, this sounds, that you have quite some experience in here.
    That mentioned project did work well for me so far - I discovered no problems with it (except I made something...
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    @LaVolpe: your Thunker

    Hello LaVolpe!

    I wanted to move the WndProc to the 'cSubclass' class from Paul Catons subclassing example.
    I was trying this by implementing the interface in that class. - But it did not work:...
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    Re: Multi-threaded Callback

    Hello LaVolpe,

    MartinLiss did mention wokawidgets multithreading - I did try it and had some trouble with it.

    I don't know, if it is helping you - but I like to point you to the MThreadVB...
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    Re: Transparent DC

    Thank you LaVolpe for this summary!
    There are some big downsides - I have to think about it...
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    Re: Transparent DC

    Hi LaVolpe!


    No, you are right. I do not cover this case, since it is not very likely, that this happens.
    It would be possible to check, which other controls on the same parent touch/collide...
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    Re: Transparent DC

    First I calculate the controls position relative to its container or parent.
    Then I take the container/parents DC and BitBlt calculated rectangle to my control.


    This is what I did - and I am...
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    Re: Transparent DC

    Hello LaVolpe,

    this sounds like option 1 is the only possible choice for me...
    Option 2 is the exact way I am going right now (except, that I am reading the content behind my control on every...
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    Re: Transparent DC

    I have some questions to your answers DrUnicode:


    Ok, makes sense.


    Ok, I made some research on ClipBehavoir: together with MaskPicture and MaskColor it defines, where it is possible to draw...
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    Re: Transparent DC

    Thank you for your answer DrUnicode!

    Is a windowless control a light weight control?

    I thought, that in light weight controls, the drawing happens in the controls containers DC. In this case,...
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    Transparent DC

    Hello, hope somebody can help me...

    I want to create a VB6 UserControl, which has a Transparency property. I do copy the rectangle underneath the UC into a backbuffer DC. Draw my controls into...
  34. DrawThemeTextEx() with DT_VCENTER and DT_WORDBREAK

    Hello, I like to use DrawThemeTextEx() API with the flags DT_VCENTER and DT_WORDBREAK. - But the centering works with DT_SINGLELINE only...

    So I like to ask, if somebody knows a simple workaround,...
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    Re: Transparency problem

    If you mean with "making transparent" setting the FillStyle property to "1 - Transparent" then: Yes, this is normal!
    This property only effects the way how things are drawn into the PictureBox and...
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    Drawing tilted text with DrawThemeTextEx()

    Hello, again I have a problem:
    I like to draw tilted text with the DrawThemeTextEx() API.
    But I have the problem, that because of the clipping a 90 degree tilted text (against the clock) is not be...
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    Re: VB Forums Photography Contest #7

    I guess there is no chance of beating DeanMcs House of the Master...
    But anyway - here is my pic:
  38. Thread: VB6 - Email

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    Re: VB6 - Email

    Strange. What do you mean with XOR?
    I did try it with a google mail account and it did work well - you just have to set the options like they given in the included help file.


    I don't know about...
  39. Thread: VB6 - Email

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    Re: VB6 - Email

    Hello aarslan1,

    there are several existing projects, which you can use for this purpose. Try following:
    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=607577...
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    [RESOLVED] Subclassing UserControl

    Hello folks!

    I have a problem and hope you can help me: I like to create an ocx which includes several controls. These controls should be subclassed. I like to use Paul Catons thunks for this,...
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