Libraries Index

This section is the repository for vbAccelerator's library of techniques and code.

	Graphics and GDI Drawing With Textures Fading Out Selected Areas Using UpdatedLayeredWindow Creating Drop-Shadows Flicker Free API Drawing Tiling Bitmaps into Controls, Forms and MDI Form backgrounds Changing Window Shapes Draw disabled, colourised and dithered icons with the DrawState GDI function Creating Single Pixel Dotted Lines more... Last Updated: 28 March 2003

	Subclassing and Hooking with Machine Code Thunks VB's AddressOf is limited in that it can only provide an address to a function within a module, and not one in a class. This makes doing many things with it harder. However, there is a way of getting a callback to a class function, although you need to know a little assembler to do it. Don't worry if you don't though - here Paul Caton presents some fantastic reusable code showing how to subclass or hook any Window without modules using this technique. more... Last Updated: 20 February 2003

	Splitting Splitting Aligned Controls on MDI Forms Splitting the Easy Way more... Last Updated: 11 February 2003

	Compression Introduction to the freeware Info-ZIP libraries Unzipping files using the free Info-Zip Unzip DLL with VB Zipping files using the free Info-Zip Zip DLL (now with encryption support) Compressing and Expanding with the Freeware zLib.DLL more... Last Updated: 26 January 2003

	High Resolution Multimedia Timer The standard timer supplied with VB is great for most tasks, but the frequency it updates at isn't acceptable for high-performance multimedia. In audio applications the system must be capable of firing audio events with a 1ms resolution, otherwise the ear will be able to discern the timing inaccuracy. This article presents a small, hardcore multimedia timer capable of 1ms resolution in VB code. more... Last Updated: 21 November 2002

	Resources Icons without forms and document association icons in VB Storing and Showing HTML Resources in a VB Application Reading Data from Local or External Library Resources Using RC.EXE more... Last Updated: 3 January 2002

	Persistance XML Property Bag more... Last Updated: 21 March 2000

	Threading Multi-Threaded VB Using ActiveX EXEs more... Last Updated: 1 January 2000

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