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May 4th, 2015, 01:16 PM
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Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
Hi
Where can I to find a basic tutorial or book about API Windows using VB6 with examples
Tia
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May 4th, 2015, 03:19 PM
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Re: Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
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May 4th, 2015, 04:42 PM
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Re: Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
And this one, you will find there two excellent programs API-Guide & ApiViewer
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May 4th, 2015, 04:53 PM
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Re: Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
Originally Posted by 4x2y
And this one, you will find there two excellent programs API-Guide & ApiViewer
+1 on the API Guide & Viewer. I used/abused those to no end when I first started to mess with APIs. Lots of examples. Downside is that the sites (as far as I know) are no longer being updated. So, eventually, you'll want to be good enough to bring up any API function on MSDN and convert the non-VB definition to VB-friendly (or google & hope someone else translated it correctly)
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May 4th, 2015, 09:11 PM
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Re: Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
One of the things you only get out of the better books (late 1990s-era Appleman, McKinney, etc.) isn't so much "monkey-copy snippets" as the rules of the road. In particular the ability to define a call in different ways to do slightly different things or use different argument list definitions.
You also won't get far without a recent Windows SDK for the C header files where named constants (among other useful things) are defined.
And don't skip reading that fine manual, either! See:
Accessing DLLs and the Windows API
Until you have read and understood that you shouldn't proceed further unless "monkey-copying" is all you plan to do.
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Jun 7th, 2023, 02:36 AM
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Re: Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
Originally Posted by LaVolpe
+1 on the API Guide
I get the "RunTime error 50003: unexpected error" when I start the API Guide. Do you know what does it mean?
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Jun 8th, 2023, 02:26 PM
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Re: Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
Last edited by themindgoblin; Dec 22nd, 2023 at 10:19 AM.
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Jun 8th, 2023, 02:46 PM
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Re: Basic Tutorial/Book about API windows using VB6
Originally Posted by themindgoblin
What version of Windows is your machine running?
WinXP SP3 from here.
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