Do you wanna handle the Taskbar? Here is the most easy way!
All you need is a Typelib with access to ITaskbar and 2 and 3. Code: Public Function ShGetTaskBar(pITB As ITaskbarList) As Long Dim hr As Long Static CLSID_TaskbarList As GUID CLSIDFromString2...
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This is an easy *and* somewhat useful subclassing which calls back into the form or user-control or whichever object instance the subclassing originates from. One could half-heartedly claim it is...
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Take advantage of IThumbNailProvider
Here is a simple example how to to "skin" your form with a thumbnail. Since with this thumbnailhandler you can use up to max 2048 pixels depending on what source you use! I just choosed to make a...
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Take advanatage of IThumbNailProvider
Here is a simple example how to to "skin" your form with a thumbnail. Since with this thumbnailhandler you can use up to max 2048 pixels depending on what source you use! I just choosed to make a...
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My first ever example ported from C++ to VB6 as I interperated it with a...
I felt for doing my very first interperation of a sample from the Win7 SDK "strait out from the comfort." I did NOT peep at any other VB6 code while I did this. Just soly relied on the C++ source and...
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Get Real PIDL From NET in the MOST simple way
Have you ever wondered over how to get a PIDL from a NET object (WWW or FTP or //Netpath)? Here it comes as the most simple way. First you create a IShellItem from the URL path since the IShellItem in...
View Article[VB6/VBA] Wheeler & Needham’s Tiny Encryption Algorithm
This mdTea.bas is implementation of latest XXTEA variant of the Wheeler & Needham’s Tiny Encryption Algorithm. While the C code in the linked Wikipedia article is short and elegant the VBx variant...
View ArticleUsed Printwindow to capture Window and cropping
Code: Option Explicit Public Type RECT Left As Long Top As Long Right As Long Bottom As Long End Type Public Type POINTAPI x As Long y As Long End Type Public Enum...
View ArticleImage Processing: Image similarity algorithms aHash, dHash, pHash
There are about 4 types of hashing algorithms: Difference Hash: DHash(Difference Hash) Average Hash: AHash(Average Hash) Perceptual Hash: PHash (Perceptual Hash) Wavelet Hash: WHash (Wavelet Hash) I...
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Control the Chrome browser with Chromdirver for web page automation
Control the Chrome browser with Chromdirver for web page automation There are a lot of similar codes, but very few pure VB ones. This is the code I used to write by referring to other people's code and...
View ArticleAutomatic mouse click operation
Automatic mouse click operation Code: Option Explicit Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo _ Lib "user32" _ Alias "SystemParametersInfoA" (ByVal uAction As...
View Articleused HttpSendRequestEx Upload data to the web page in sections
// InternetOpen ---:InternetConnect----HttpOpenRequest----InternetSetOption -HttpAddRequestHeaders---HttpSendRequestEx Code: Option Explicit Event HttpError(Status As String) Event HttpOpen(Status As...
View Article[VB6/VBA/twinBASIC] The quickest way to the real Windows version:...
The simplest version APIs all lie unless you have a manifest. If you want to be sure you get the real version no matter what, there's various more complicated techniques. The one I had been using...
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Form & Controls Resizer (including Font.Size)
Ok, yeah, this has been done a couple of times before. But I've never been happy with what's out there. So here's my version. There's a sample project with everything in it. But I'm going through it...
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Changed Class (Keep track of the "dirty" status of your data).
Edit: I made a couple dumb errors in the Demo and fixed them. They weren't important to the point of the Demo so you don't have to download the new ZIP if you don't want to. cChanged Demo.zip This is a...
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VB6 - Add/Modify UDTs (User Defined Types) to/from a VB6 Collection (No...
Having recently encountered (again) this ancient issue of trying to add UDTs to a VB6 Collection, I have decided to take another look at it. There are several existing methods to tackle this problem...
View Articleopen regedit to desired key
regmon used to have a neat feature where it could open regedit and navigate the treeview to the registry key it was displaying. turns out Mark spun it off into its own command line utility as well...
View ArticleConvert a Number from a certain base to a different one
I share my Code, as anticipated in the following thread: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....imal-to-binary Code: Function Convert•Num‹Num(Number As String,...
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Lots of Functions to Deal with Controls
Finding the widest, right-aligning, changing their size to fit the contents of their caption or text, making comboboxes as wide as their widest list entry, etc. bControls.zip This has some...
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Some of the most concise, best code I've ever written
It's very simple and nothing ground-breaking or anything like that. It's basically search behavior. So the way it works is that there are four locations - country, state, city and postal code. I can't...
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