On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:07:54 -0400, "Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)"
wrote:

You probably have appropriate tools for handling API's. But I've never
worked
with them. Googling around, I found this:

http://www.activevb.de/rubriken/apiv...viewereng.html

which is said to be (or have been at the time of its creation in 2004)
more
inclusive than the MS supplied API viewer.

This is the one I use most...

http://allapi.mentalis.org/agnet/apiguide.shtml

it is older (and less inclusive of "newer" API functions), but the examples
are worth their weight in gold.

Interesting stuff.

More than interesting is the sheer power available using the API functions.
That is because ultimately, anything you do program-wise on a Windows system
ends up making calls to the underlying API functions; so almost any magic
you see another program doing can probably be duplicated in VB. I say
"almost" and "probably" because VB is a single-thread language, so there are
a lot of API functions not usable within it (and I'm sure there are other
restricted groups of API functions also not available in it). The big
problem with the API functions, though, is there is no really good
documentation on using it (there is a dictionary sized book by Appleman from
a few years ago, but it can be daunting to read/follow) and the set up of
the individual API functions is cumbersome at best (read that as highly user
unfriendly).

Do you have anything more recent (that will run without Visual Basic
having
been installed)?

The API-Guide I posted the link above for runs as a stand alone application.

Rick

Thank you for that information, Rick. I'll have a look when I get back home
(out of town now).
--ron