Bunch of simple Question

Here is a list of some questions, any all or any if you can please:

How do you:

1) find out how much mem a specifc form takes?
2) find out how much mem you have left?
3) send somethin to the recycle bin
4) find out what type of connection the user is using?
5) find out what type of drive G: is? (eg. HDD. CD-RW)
6) make sometihng blink like ICQ does when you get a new message?

Q3:

http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip48.html


Q4:

Check while they are online.
http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip467.html


Q5:


Add a Listbox to the form along with this code.

Code:

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Private Declare Function GetLogicalDrives _
Lib "kernel32" () As Long

Private Declare Function GetDriveType Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "GetDriveTypeA" (ByVal nDrive As String) As Long


Private Function GetDrive(sDrive As String) As String

    On Error GoTo Error_Handler:

' This routine calls the API GetDriveType. That routine will return
' a long value that equates to a description as shown.
' Sample Call: GetDrive "C"
   
    Select Case GetDriveType(sDrive & ":\")
        Case 2
            GetDrive = "Removable"
        Case 3
            GetDrive = "Drive Fixed"
        Case 4
            GetDrive = "Remote"
        Case 5
            GetDrive = "Cd-Rom"
        Case 6
            GetDrive = "Ram disk"
        Case Else
            GetDrive = "Unrecognized"
    End Select

Error_Handler:
End Function


Private Sub Form_Load()

    Dim iDrives As Integer
    For iDrives = 65 To 90
        List1.AddItem Chr$(iDrives) & Chr$(58) & Chr$(92) & Chr$(32) & Chr$(45) & Chr$(32) & GetDrive(Chr$(iDrives))
    Next iDrives
   
End Sub

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Q6:


Use the FlashWindow API function.

Code:

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Private Declare Function FlashWindow _
Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal bInvert As _
Long) As Long


Usage

'True = Flash
'False = No Flash

FlashWindow Me.hWnd, True

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Q1 / Q2

I imagine this works, don't really have anything to check it against...

Code:

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Option Explicit

Private Type MEMORYSTATUS
    dwLength As Long
    dwMemoryLoad As Long
    dwTotalPhys As Long
    dwAvailPhys As Long
    dwTotalPageFile As Long
    dwAvailPageFile As Long
    dwTotalVirtual As Long
    dwAvailVirtual As Long
End Type

Private Declare Sub GlobalMemoryStatus Lib "kernel32" (lpBuffer As MEMORYSTATUS)

Sub main()
 Dim s As Long, e As Long
 
 s = AvailPhysMem
 
 Load Form1
 Form1.Show
 
 DoEvents
 
 e = AvailPhysMem
 
 Debug.Print "Form1 uses " & (s - e) & " bytes of memory or " _
                    & CSng(((s - e) / TotalPhysMem) * 1) _
                    & "% of total physical memory"
 
 Debug.Print "There are " & AvailPhysMem & " bytes left of physical memory"
 
End Sub

Private Function AvailPhysMem() As Long
    Dim mem As MEMORYSTATUS
    GlobalMemoryStatus mem
    AvailPhysMem = mem.dwAvailPhys
End Function

Private Function TotalPhysMem() As Long
    Dim mem As MEMORYSTATUS
    GlobalMemoryStatus mem
    TotalPhysMem = mem.dwTotalPhys
End Function

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