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The PeekMessage Windows API Function retrieves windows messages from a message queue. The TranslateMessage Windows API Function translates virtual-key messages into character messages.

This post demonstrates how to use the SetPixel and GetPixel Windows API Functions to set (and get) the colour of individual pixels on the surface of a UserForm.

Get a list of all fonts (or font / character set combinations) on a device using the EnumFontFamiliesEx Windows API Function.

The GetDeviceCaps Function provides information on the graphics / display capabilities (hence "Caps") of a device ... information such as the widths and heights of screens in millimetres or pixels; monitor resolution; numbers of available brushes, pens, colours and fonts; other detailed information relating to the GDI library that this Function is part of such as its ability to perform shading and its ability to draw certain types of curves.

This post covers a number of Windows API Functions relating to getting windows and getting information about windows.

This post demonstrates how to use the GetLocaleInfoEx Windows API Function to get locale-related information.

This post demonstrates how to use the FlashWindow or FlashWindowEx Windows API Functions to flash the taskbar icon and window for an application.

This post demonstrates how to use the GetDefaultPrinter, SetDefaultPrinter and EnumPrinters Windows API Functions to, respectively, get the name of the active printer, set the active printer and list all available printers.

This post demonstrates how to use the GetKeyState Windows API Function to test the state of specific keys ... in this case, the Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Caps Lock and Num Lock keys.

VBE_Extras extends the built-in "F1" functionality to open the Microsoft documentation web page for Windows API Functions (i.e. that you have declared using the 'Declare' keyword), Types, Enums and Consts.