![]() Declaring API functions in 6. Office. Application Development. Microsoft. There is an introductory. Microsoft MSDN. Compatibility Between the 3.
Versions of Office 2. That article describes the how- to's to properly write the declarations. ![]() You can. find the API viewer here. Declarations by API function. Function name. Declarations (3. Create. Process. We start off with a complicated one because it has a lot of. A fully functional example is included below the example. Courtesy. example code was taken from this page. Declare. Function. Create. Process Lib . The only things that require Long. Ptr are function. This is because. a 6. OS has a memory space that is too large to hold in a Long data. Arguments or return values that represent data will still. Long even in 6. 4- bit. The Send. Message API is a good example because it uses both types: 3. Public. Declare. Function Send. Message. A Lib . The return value is a pointer to a function, which is also an address. Both of these must be declared Long. Browse C&C: Yuri's Revenge files to download full releases, installer, sdk, patches, mods, demos, and media. Fix errors with missing dll files. Find help installing the file for Windows, useful software, and a forum to ask questions. Shell32.dll - original dll file, download here. One click to download this file. Repair your system. If you thought the sequel to StarCraft is exciting you might be surprised that the sequel to WarCraft can still be played on a modern operating system. Navigace: Obsah > 4. Konfigurace a p. Nastavení v souboru wincmd.ini Upozorn WinThruster is Downloading. Your download should begin automatically in a few seconds. If not, click the download button again. Start Download. Ptr in 6. 4- bit VBA. The arguments. w. Msg and w. Param are used to pass data, so they can be Long in both 3. How to determine what is a memory address and what is data? You just. the MSDN documentation for the API functions (the C++ version) and it. Anything called a handle, pointer, brush or any other object. Long. Ptr in 6. 4- bit. Anything that is strictly data can. Long. Conditional compiling. If your code needs to run on both 3. Excel, then another. VBA. Microsoft devised two compile constants to handle this: VBA7: True if you're using Office 2. False for older versions. WIN6. 4: True if your Office installation is 6. Since the 6. 4 bit declarations also work on 3. Office 2. 01. 0, all you. VBA7. #If VBA7 Then. Private. Declare. Ptr. Safe Function Get. Device. Caps. Lib ? I invite you to. send me your (working and tested!!!) declarations so I can add them here. I also welcome comments and suggestions on improvements! Sorry for the truncations into 3 messages. Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (8/8/2. PM) Hi George. Thanks!! Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (8/8/2. PM) Hi George. The best way is to find womeone with 6. Excel to test this. Comment by: Daniel Isoje (1. PM) Your post makes it all easy for me now. Before now the 3. I got a few . Most are related to strings. To 6. 4- bit returned type must be Long. Ptr. Private Declare Ptr. Safe Function SHBrowse. For. Folder Lib ! Comment by: Nigel Heffernan (1. PM) Open. Process and Get. Exit. Code. Process would be useful: both are required for the widely- used Shell. And. Wait() function. Surely this will just evaluate to long in 3. Why should I be only converting certain Longs to Long. Ptr? My gut feeling says that the arguments you pass to a Win API need to be of the right type. I am not convinced Long. Ptr would be equally good as Long when the argument is supposed to be a Long. My gut feeling also whispers to me that this is the type of thing that lets vulnerabilities creep into software, but perhaps I'm paranoid : -) . Comment by: Nigel Heffernan (1/2. PM) Hi Jan - . Thanks for the code for Open. Process and Get. Exit. Code. Process. Windows might throw an exception that VBA can handle as an error; it might crash Excel; or it might truncate the value silently and perform some arcane API function on the wrong resource. Google for 'Dangling Pointer' and see what you get. But the compiler won't do that new, improved pointer management on any old integer: you need to declare it as 'Long. Ptr'. Icon cannot show and after minimized nothing happened. Do you know how to update vba code to win. I'm running Office 2. Excel. I declared a DLL function as follows. When precisely do you get the compile error? Comment by: Randy (4/2. PM) Here's an example. Declare Ptr. Safe Function Foo Lib . A message box pops up saying . Please review and update Declare statements and then mark them with the Ptr. Safe Attribute. You can avoid these silly compile error messages during editing by turning them off in the Editor options. Tools, Options, uncheck . In case there is an exception it is mentioned in the sample code above. Comment by: wareko (5/9/2. PM) Thank you for your quick reply! Comment by: Frank (5/2. PM) Hi. I'm certainly out of my element here, and I hope you can help. I'm using Excel 2. I was trying to create a macro whereby a user would click a link, and it would pass the product number to a Windows Explorer search function. You should be able to locate the code by looking at all open projects in the Project explorer of the VBA editor and doing a find on each of them? Comment by: Frank (5/2. PM) Hi Jan. Thank you for getting back to me, and so quickly! And I shut down again before coming back into work and redocking. Thanks. Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (6/2. AM) Hi Alan. The quick and dirty way to make this work on Excel 2. Declare Ptr. Safe Function Global. Unlock Lib . With your Mod the code works for me now in both XL 2. XL 2. 01. 0. I was googling similar things but was way out of my depth to apply them. Thanks for giving me the final full solution. I note that in XL 2. Declare Ptr. Safe lines still come up Red, indicating error, but the code works , by virtue , I think of the # which somehow works so that that code is done prior to the compiling. But I highly expect it as the original author has the original code working in 6. Comment by: Alan Elston (6/2. PM) . Jan, I have posted your modified code version and referenced you. Sorry for any confusion. Thanks again for the help. Alan. Comment by: Tawn (8/6/2. PM) I've downloaded the Microsoft Office Code Compatibility inspector add- in. I have MC Office Pro Plus 2. The directions for use say to add the Developer Tab. I don't see the tab at File> Options> Customize Ribbon> Popular Commands> Main Tab. Check whether or not you have used any external active. X controls in your project, because those may be unavailable in 6. Mostly these should be shown in your VBA projects list of references. Comment by: les (1. PM) I have a 3. 2 bit version of Excel but have a client that has a 6. Where do I put the code to use the 6. Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (1. AM) Hi Les. Does your code have any API calls (Declare statements)? Jan Karel Pieterse. Could you please help me which Long becomes Ptr. Long in the following Type code in VBA7? Many thanks in advance. Jan Karl Pieterse. I have just found a very interesting text document containing a lot of API declarations in VBA7 format however without an older version of VBA (2. A4 format). http: //www. Win. 32. API? Jan Karel Pieterse. Could you recommend any websites / links to convert old Excel VBA code into the code for VBA7 for the following API declarations and corresponding Type statements? And if a function is not in the win. API. txt, then all you can do is try to find its definition on MSDN and then figure out what are the longptr's. Comment by: Elek (2/1. PM) Hi. do you have a ? API functions are always declared using the . Any functuion NOT using that keyword is NOT a Windows API function and does not need 6. Comment by: Vladimir Nazarov (2/2. PM) Dear Mr. Pieterse. How to make the following function Low. Level. Keyboard. Proc to work both in VBA6 and in VBA7? You can simply look it up in the table on this page. Windows API's do not need references, they only need the declare statement. Comment by: Lorin Rowe (3/1. PM) in 3. 2 bit I called. Set td. Connection = Create. Object(? I think it is best if you seek help from a more experienced VBA developer for this task. Comment by: M Simms (6/2. AM) This is from the Microsoft MSDN portal. Existing 3. 2- bit Active. X controls, both third- party and Microsoft- supplied, are not compatible with the 6. Office 2. 01. 0. For Active. X controls and COM objects, there are three possible solutions. If you have the source code, you can generate a 6. You can contact the vendor for an updated version. You can search for an alternative solution. Another alternative is to build your own Active. X- like control (if it is to be used on a userform) like this one. Comment by: M Simms (6/2. PM) Can ALL ? Thanks for your help !! Best to test it thoroughly on both 3. Office systems. Comment by: M Simms (6/2. PM) Oh wow, that API Viewer looks terrific !!! Thanks! Comment by: Mick Webb (9/6/2. PM) I assume that any wrappers where the result was Long but could now be either Long or Long. Ptr will have to have their return changed to Variant. Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (9/7/2. AM) Hi Mick. I don't really know to be honest. Do you have any specific function in mind? Comment by: Mick Webb (9/7/2. PM) Hi. For instance I have the Find. Window api in a wrapper to give me the handle of a MS User. Form. Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (9/7/2. PM) Hi Mick. In such a case (e. It will take me some time though, too much things going on right now. Comment by: Alan Elston (1. PM) Thanks ! It keeps helping me! Comment by: Ram S (1. PM) Hi Jan Karel. Greetings! Thanks for asking the question. Am researching to see if there are mouse APIs related to get. Cursor. Pos and set. Cursor. Pos and click at that position om Win 6. I had to change the Ptr. Safe Report. Event as it doesn't work at all ******************. Public Declare Ptr. Safe Function Report. Event Lib . This old code will work but it isn't Ptr. Safe **************************************. Declare Function Report. Event Lib . I'm in Access 2. Windows 7 6. 4- bit. The code seems to work for others in different forums, but mine can't fine the function api. Show. Window even though I changed to ptrsafe. It compiles, so the syntax is right, but burps at execution. You clearly understand this stuff, but I'm out of my area of expertise - do I need to add some reference in the VBA window? Comment by: Charltsing (5/3. PM) I developed a free tool for automatic conversion of windows api in vbe. The code seems to work for strings no longer than 1. VB receives the result string as a Long. Pointer. Thanks in advance for any help/ideas you can share. Option Explicit. Private Declare Ptr. Safe Function Encrypt. Decrypt Lib . I googled a bit and found this article on stacj exchange.
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