Bad DLL calling convention ???

[David Laplante]

I am trying to use the icq api but am getting this error message when I try to use one of the function.

The function set wich of MY functions (In my app) will be called when a certain notification from ICQ arrives...

here goes..
Now the documentation for the ICQ API is written for C++, I have managed to convert most of them but maybe this one is not converted correctly ?

What the documentation says:

void WINAPI ICQAPIUtil_SetUserNotificationFunc(UINT uNotificationCode, void *pUserFunc);

In a module:

Public Declare Function ICQSetUserNotificationFunc Lib "ICQMAPI.dll" Alias "ICQAPIUtil_SetUserNotificationFunc" (uNotificationCode As Integer, ByVal pUserFunc As Variant)

In the code of a form:

Call ICQSetUserNotificationFunc(1, AddressOf ICQOnlineListChange)

Is the function converted correctly ? if it is, what is the problem. If not , How should it be?

[David Laplante]

Thank You Stevie-O!

I AM new at this and did not know of those rules... I will make sure I obey them at all times (I don't want to lose everything on my computer because of VB)

if you have other rules, I would like to know them!
thanks again

[Stevie-O]

Hehe, will do =)

Consider yourself lucky - to my knowledge, none of those rules are actually explicitly written down anywhere. I determined them based on some existing documentation and a great deal of trial and error. VB's universal message 'Invalid DLL calling convention' wasn't much of a help either :P It reminds me of the good old DOS days when there was only one printer error - error #27, "Out Of Paper". QuickBASIC would say 'out of paper' whether the printer was off, unplugged, or even actually out of paper.