Windows useraccount

[MIdas0036]

is there a way i can get VB to call windows useraccounts to get the username and display it in a program (Or Game)

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for:
http://vbcity.com/page.asp?f=howto&p=system_username

[MIdas0036]

i went to that link did not work for me what i am trying to do is get VB 6 to go into the computer and get the name of the user and display it in a program

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

MIdas0036 @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:42 am wrote:

i went to that link did not work for me what i am trying to do is get VB 6 to go into the computer and get the name of the user and display it in a program

How did it not work? Compile error? Did not get a name back? Crash? Gibberish?

[MIdas0036]

No Name was returned if you can get the code to work that would help me alot.

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

MIdas0036 @ Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:51 pm wrote:

No Name was returned if you can get the code to work that would help me alot.

This is what I got...

VisualBASIC:

Declare Function GetUserNameA Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _         "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, _         ByRef nSize As Integer) As Integer     Public Function GetUserName() As String         Dim retval As Integer         Dim username As String         Dim size As Integer         username = Space$(255)         size = 255  'Gets us usernames up to 254 characters long         retval = GetUserNameA(username, size)         If retval <> 0 Then             GetUserName = Left$(username, size - 1)         Else             GetUserName = "<unknown>"         End If     End Function