Windows 2000 True of False?

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Jul 5th, 2000, 05:15 PM
Crypt

Hiyas,

what I've heard about windows 2000 is that it is completely 32-bit, and you can't use 16-bit api calls in your vb program if you want it to work on windows 2000 is that true?

also how do you tell which api calls are 32-bit and which api calls are 16-bit?
Jul 5th, 2000, 05:38 PM

Code:

Public Declare Function InvertRect Lib "user32" Alias "InvertRect" (ByVal hdc As Long, lpRect As RECT) As Long

To tell if it's 32-bit, it should have the suffix 32 at the end of the Lib file. For example, user32, gdi32, kernel32, advapi32 etc.
Jul 5th, 2000, 05:45 PM

32 Bit \ 16 Bit

There is a help file called Win32.hlp which is about 23 megabytes. It holds information on all API syntaxes and every single thing you want to know about 32 bit \ 16 bit version + some examples. It's pretty hard to find this file so you can e-mail me and i'll send you the file.
Jul 5th, 2000, 08:30 PM
ysa1441

yes,
i am an official MCP(microsoft certified professional) and you can be sure that it is correct and true.
bye,
yair
Jul 9th, 2000, 01:34 AM
Crypt

ok thanx for the info :), so does that mean the wininet.dll is a 16-bit api call? because I think the Microsoft Internet Trasnsfer Control uses that call, and that means a lot of my programs won't work on windows 2000.
Jul 23rd, 2000, 06:10 PM

Well... ISU works on Win2k fine for me :D
So I guess that means that wininet.dll is 32 bit so either:

Quote:

you can't use 16-bit api calls in your vb program if you want it to work on windows 2000

or

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To tell if it's 32-bit, it should have the suffix 32 at the end of the Lib file.

is wrong :D And more to the point...what would wininet.dll be doing in my c:\winnt\system32 directory if i were 16-bit anyway!? I didn't put it there, if it were 16-bit an Win2k doesn't support 16-bit then Microsoft or any 16-bit program didn't put it there...so it MUST be 32-bit.

Ha ha! Got it... bring up the properties window for wininet.dll... click the version tab and see that the description says "Internet Extensions for Win32"...or take my word for it :)

Subject change...where's Whatson1.7? :confused:
Jul 23rd, 2000, 06:15 PM
Crypt

wooohooooooo lol whatson will work on win2k :) thanx mathew ya made my day :) http://members.xoom.com/else57jdvq/W1.7.zip
but now that means I have to edit whatsons help file lol dang.
Jul 24th, 2000, 10:27 AM

I'm at work now, (on a Win98 machine) but I've just downloaded it and I'll try it out om my Win2k machine tonight. :)
Jul 24th, 2000, 11:10 AM

Like the new version. Has got another frame on the main form. :)

Like the option to save the search results too, but you should give the option on the file menu a shortcut key (like CTRL+S) and set the flags of the commondialog control to 4...that'll get rid of the "Open file as read-only" checkbox

Blumin evil Internet Transfere Control thingy! :( Not lettin u kill a transfere dead an all that :(

Reccon you should make the help file into a frames page and consider hosting it on a website instead of on the person's local machine...so you can update it easily. :)

Like the site BTW :P