No, shinchan, we won't do your homework for you. If your professor has asked you to do something with tools he has not taught you, go see the department chair or the ombudsman. Otherwise, if you...

I don't know how to use COM in VB... Sorry.

I think that you can go to the installed components dialogue and requisition it... (but again, I haven't seen VB in years).

It's a DLL. ;)

%SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll

Check out this thread I googled (http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/archive/index.php/t-28995.html).

You'll need to track mouse down and mouse up events, then use the Pythagorean theorem.

Hope this helps.

I haven't looked through the QStat sources (and I don't plan to), but if it really is just a plain-vanilla command-line application then you only need to spawn it as a subprocess, and re-route its...

No. How close to the edge you can get is entirely dependent on the printer model.

Many modern home ink-jet printers can get to 1/2 inch of the edge.

You can get information about the printing...

After you start the new application (who's caption is in the variable NewAppTitle, and whose icon is in the variable NewAppIconImage), you will have to use something like the following
...

I'm not sure what else to say.

You have indicated that your "taskbar" is actually implemented as a tear-off menubar.

Menubars have menu items. How did you put the "start" button/menu on it?
...

No.
Years.
Check out this thread. (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread4894.html)

If what you want is something:

with text and/or graphics
that you can click on
that represents the newly executed program
that appears on your menu bar (or "menustrip"/"taskbar")
...

It is unlikely that anyone is going to write code for you...

However, what you want to do shouldn't be too difficult. Every time you start a new program you just need to add a new menu item to...

Your string needs to be pretty darn huge before you'll need to play with a progress bar.

So, first check the length of the string. If it is less than, say, 3000 characters, don't bother: just use...

I think you are out of luck. See here. (http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid8_gci1045901,00.html)

For sequential, repetitive tasks, use a loop.

Typically you make your application match XP's visual style simply by linking the XP common-controls manifest as a resource for your application. (You must do this if you want theming capabilities...

Using the Win32 API, you need to:

1. CreateCompatibleDC to create a DC compatible with your window's DC
2. CreateCompatibleBitmap with the appropriate dimensions
3. SelectObject to select the...