Looking for an easy way to push your Visual Basic 4 applications that extra mile – without abandoning the convenience of the VB environment? Visual Basic 4 API How-To is the hassle-free guide to unleashing the power of the Win32 APl to jump-start your Visual Basic multimedia, printing, memory, system configuration, and peripheral applications. Written in the Waite Group’s award-winning How-To format, this invaluable reference presents more than 60 step-by-step Win32 API solutions; to real-life Visual Basic problems.

With this definitive problem-solver, you’ll tap into the Windows API for faster, more powerful Visual Basic applications.

Discover how to inject your applications with state-of-the-art multimedia effects like fading a graphic to black, using low-level wave and MIDI APIs to boost sound, and designing warp-speed sprite animations. Access and utilize the powerful Windows Global Memory. Create interactive maps, graphics, and charts with irregularly shaped hot-spots.

The companion CD-ROM contains all the examples and How-To solutions developed in the book, complete with bitmaps and modularized, fully encapsulated code you can drop right into your own programs.