January 22, 2000

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PlayAVIAudioOFF – Play an AVI file without the audio track

Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib “winmm” Alias “mciSendStringA” _ (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, _ ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function

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PlayAVIVideoOFF – Play only the audio track of an AVI file

Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib “winmm” Alias “mciSendStringA” _ (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, _ ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function

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PlayAVIPictureBox – Play an AVI file in a PictureBox

Const WS_CHILD = &H40000000Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib “winmm” Alias “mciSendStringA” _ (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, _ ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As

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Add size grips to a form

There are two simple ways to add the so-called size-grips to the bottom-right corner of a form. The first method is to add a StatusBar control, which includes a size-grip

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Add multiple child controls to a Coolbar

The Coolbar control consists of a collection of Band objects, and each Band object exposes a Child property. To move a control inside the Coolbar you just have to assign

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Create a System Tray icon

Sometimes is useful to add an icon in the Window taskbar’s status area (a.k.a. System Tray), to gain a better interaction between the user and your application. The only API

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PlayWAV – Play a WAV file

Const SND_ASYNC = &H1Private Declare Function PlaySound Lib “winmm.dll” Alias “PlaySoundA” (ByVal _ lpszName As String, ByVal hModule As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long’ Play a WAV file.”

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Change the DataSource at runtime

Visual Basic 6 is the first VB version that lets you programmatically change the DataSource property at runtime, for example to point to another ADO Data control or another ADO