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iti@Jerusalem.netvision.net.il wrote:
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>I have a DLL written in Visual C++ and am trying to write a Visual Basic (Ver. >3) application to use it.  I am new to VB so I have two questions.
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>	1.  How can I access the message que (in order to do my own message >processing) in a VB application?
>
>	2.  I have a C DLL function declaired as 
>"char far*   WINAPI    _export    MyFunct(void)  ".  How do I declare it in VB.
>

Declare Function MyFunct Lib "MyDll.DLL" As Long

You won't be happy with the char* though because VB Strings are handled
in a VERY different way. If you want to return a string result pass a
pointer to the function and a pre-initialized string at runtime.

e.g. int WINAPI _export MyFunct(char* result);

Declare Function MyFunct Lib "MyDll.DLL" (ByVal result As String) As Integer

(if you want to return a negative error code as function result in the int
or the length of the string if successful)

Then call it like this:

Dim ok As Integer
Dim resultstring As String

resultstring = "lotsofspacesuptothemaxyou'llexpect" & chr$(0)
ok = MyFunct(resultstring)
If ok >= 0 Then
    resultstring = Left$(resultstring, ok)
Else
   ' got some error to report
End If

Helge ;-)=)

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