Reference for API parameter values (Office XP SP-2)

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Wrapping API calls for VB use requires knowing the values for the relevant API function parameters (e.g. SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE = &H2). I’ve found the Microsoft online API documentation, but couldn’t manage to find anywhere where the parameter values were documented. Is there an online reference that has these (at Microsoft or otherwise)?

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(Edited by jscher2000 on 28-Apr-05 13:17. Download link added…)

Once upon a time… there was a file named win32api.txt that contained zillions of API functions and constants in VB-friendly terms. I have idea whether it is a complete set, however.

Here’s a link to download the 2003 version … I suspect it’s not all that different from what would work in newer versions, but no guarantees.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details…;DisplayLang=en[/url]

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Thanks. Armed with the filename, I found I already had a copy of the 1994 version buried deep in the bowels of my C: drive. (It came with one edition or other of the Access Developer’s Handbook.)

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Two sites I find useful are
AllAPI not maintained any more, but good overview of syntax, and example code. There’s an irritating pop-under but it appears only once per session.
Windows API Guide

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Thanks for the links. Both look good.

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In addition to Hans’s reference to http://www.allapi.net/, there is/ was available on that site, the “API-Guide” application, created by the KPD-Team 1998-2002. From memory, it was a semi-automated util, which did at least some of the call construction for you, and guided you in same via providing examples. Worth a look I’d say… ware too!

Alan

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