• COM
  • Get the network domain name
  • Use a Java object from PB
  • Use WSH-VBScript functionalities
  • Check if a program is running
  • Get information for the current user from ActiveDirectory
  • Run a program and wait
  • Create a shortcut
  • Use XML
  • Encode/decode URL's parameters
  • Display PDF into a Window
  • Write a Window Log Event
  • Print a Word document
  • Remove HTML tags to keep only text (with IE)
  • Get CPU or other hardware/software infos (with WMI)
  • Use MQSeries
  • Terminate a Windows application
  • Get the current user email using Active Directory
• External program
  • Start the default browser
  • Upload a file using FTP
  • Start a dial-up connection
  • Start/Run services
  • Display default email window to type and send email
  • Use Internet Explorer
  • Use MQSeries
  • Use RunDll32 utility
• Win API/Registry
  • Get a list of printers installed
  • Use file association to start an application
  • Shutdown from application
  • Start the screen saver
  • Get the CDROM drive letter
  • Get the user name and the computer name
  • Drive mapping to UNC notation
  • Make a program sleep
  • Call HtmlHelp
  • Maximize a frame
  • Make a window popup "on top"
  • Make the "hourglass" cursor stay
  • Move a window without a titlebar
  • Convert ANSI to Oem character set
  • Send keystroke to a control
  • Return an ERRORLEVEL to a BAT file
  • Change screen resolution
  • Determine what is the decimal or hundred separator at runtime
  • Move the mouse cursor
  • Disable the MouseWheel ZOOM function
  • Set the system date/time
  • Remove the Close item in the system menu.
  • Flash a Window Title bar
  • Detect if an application is already running
  • Retrieve error from calling a Win API
  • Use the default MAPI profile
  • Set and retrieve the executable version
  • Get the application PID
  • Create and use a C DLL (MSVC6)
  • Use Windows Resources from a DLL
  • Get the IP address
  • Use Windows Debug API
  • Animate a Window
  • Use Microsoft Crypto API
  • Scroll a Window
  • Get OS version
  • Retrieve the Regional Setting w/o using the Registry
  • Make a window unmoveable
  • Retrieve window handle by its title
  • Have a transparent window
  • Bypass Window Error popup message
  • Get hard disk serial number
  • Make a selected item in a ListView visible
  • Get the CPU speed
  • Disable the logon and logoff button
  • Disable the screensaver
  • List Windows processes or services
  • Terminate a Windows process
  • Terminate a Windows application
  • Control CD audio tray, play MP3 file
  • Detect if user is using Terminal Server
  • Detect if a network is present
  • Detect network and/or internet connectivity state
  • Detect Caps Lock state
  • Convert Win API calls to PB10
  • Hide a window from the Windows task list
  • Get the number of items in a Treeview
  • Detect if the current user is a member of the Administrator's group
  • Resize a window because XP window title is bigger
  • Convert the datatypes from Microsoft Win API to PowerBuilder
  • Allow user:password in URL
  • Get the time and date from a server
  • Set the wallpaper
  • Scan Window titles
  • Get an UUID (Universally Unique Identifiers)
  • Encode/decode base64 string
  • Get the executable name
  • Get Network card description and Mac address
  • Turn on/off the monitor

Win API, Registry, External programs and COM HowTo

Written and compiled by Réal Gagnon ©1998-2012
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