Window - Minimize Icon
Hi,How can I associate an event and know when the user has clicked the minimize icon on the window.. Why because there is no event associated to it.. Is it possible or no.. Or is there any API related to it.. Why because there is a ConstantSC_MINIMIZE .. Can I post this to the Window Queue and do somethingswith that..Pl give me your idea regarding this..RegardsArun Kumar
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I am new in this forum,and maybe someone can help me.
General background:
My VB6.0 program starts with USB communication to the user and gets as a respond back parameters to intiates.
Then the aplication initiates two batch files: one is transmitter and the other one initiates another batch files that starts parallely three receivers(VLAN IP data). All this with external windows XP .dll's,and Shell command.
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Hi,
I developed a project in VB6, it checks the database and if the date field matches then, the application
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Edited by - chs on 11/28/2005 10:39:05 PM
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