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Good morning Forums In these days, I am working on a project that involved me to use some Windows APIs to obtain some information about Terminal Servers. I'm doing this using wtsapi32.dll in a VBA Project, but, the lack of knowledge about few things threated in the articles make this quite difficult to implement and understand at the same time. The most difficult thing I'm facing is "translating" C/C++ functions or struct in VBA when pointers are used, or pointers of pointers, and so on. Since VBA seems to not have a pointer type, to make those functions work I need to implement other functions taken from other DLLs, and this confuses me a lot. For example, starting from this code, I splitted all the functions and all the definitions to understand why they are there, and why I need to use them. At the end, I've found out that the code I was going to implement starting from the functions provided in the Microsoft Docs won't be ever be able to work without some supplementary functions which are not mentioned anywhere. So, I was wondering if someone would please point me out to a good and practical exaplanation about pointers (in general) or specifically for VBA, because I need to use them quite often in these days, and I'd like to understand what I am doing. Thanks in advance. Best Regards and Stay at home 🏡

Hello to all =) I am currently creating some Functions UDFs and examples using DllCall and other methods that interact with MS C runtime and Windows API. Many of the MSDN documents can be a little ambiguous and more so when converting to an AutoIt3 context, so for correctness or when I can't find conformation from within the forum or other documentation I would like to ask a number of questions with regards to the above topic. Even though some questions may not appear to relate to the same topic, they are all related to the same set of UDFs I am creating. The main purpose of the Function library is exemplify the use of Dll Calls from within AutoIt3 for other users and obviously a good learning and practice exercise for myself. Some Functions may resemble functions already supplied within the UDF library, and is purely a mater of process and coincidence to have arrived at a similar place. Where a UDF function already exists I will provide an example of the same method using the standard UDF , as the standard AutoIt UDFs will be more appropriate for most Users. The second purpose is to extend some of the current UDFs relating to AutoIt/Windows Dialog Metrics and Device Context. Although this is intended mostly for my own purposes It will offer a reasonable context for DllCall examples and hopefully a few additional functions that others may benefit from. Before posting any code or examples I would like to ensure that I am using the correct AutoIt and Win API measurements and methods so I will begin with those questions. (Mods, I would like to keep future code examples at the top of this thread, but if that is not convenient I can begin another thread. Basic layout top to bottom 1. Code examples with explanations 2.Standards, Measurements and Metrics 3.Questions and general discussions) For members who may feel that I am an unknown quantity, I am a very happy, easy going person and always approachable for questions or suggestions =) I do have a lot going on in the background most days between indentured study, Software Dev Startup, assisting local students with fundamental coding and robotics, time with my family etc. So If I don't reply to a question straight away, its just that I am busy elsewhere with other commitments.

Hello fellas! The other night night i was converting a Msdn function to autoit and I stumbled across this topic Which inspired me like crazy and I decided to take it a step further and require the user to make almost ZERO effort to export a c++ Msdn function and or a Structure to AutoIt Shoutout to toasterking So after 18-20 effective hours: The GUI is really simple, all you need is a link to a MSDN page and the program does the rest, most of the options is just for user preferences. On the inside I have spent a decent amount of work to make sure the code come out correctly, any particular event during the conversion will get fed-back to the user, so he or she will know if anything noticeable happen. Regular DllCall example http://i.imgur.com/HZLijeu.png Struct example http://i.imgur.com/l3j6wTR.png Expand spoiler for more pictures In the "Msdn Examples" folder you will find some examples of code i have generated, in most of them I only manually added 2-3 lines to make them work. If you dont know where to get these functions you can browse the MSDN Library https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663300(v=vs.85).aspx and look for any function refrence, or just google "somethingsomething msdn" and the first result will almost always contain the function you are looking for. Here is some functions you can play around with https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724390(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms633519(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms645505(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724408(v=vs.85).aspx I would really appreciate any kind of feedback, improvements or requests If you get any type of error just post the MSDN url + the error message and ID and I will troubleshoot it. Update 0.2 Fixed some minor issues Added highlight for a more pleasent view Fixed minor bugs Made it run faster when working with the same URL (It dosent load the page entierly) No struct search is now done when no POINTER is used in the call Added more options for the user Update 0.3 Removed _IeNavigate and fixed the template for DllCall not including function name Update 0.4 Switched method to InetGet from _Ie* H0tfix3s Update 0.5 Added more options for function-layout Removed old code Added more auto detection Now using @TmpDir instead of @ScriptDir for html files etc. Update 0.6 More Output logic added Added a detection for SAL aswell, since it seems to be inconsistent according to MSDN community and myself. Better feedback on what happend with parse Code cleanup / Removed old code /Tarre DllCall and Struct Generator V 0.6.zip DllCall and Struct Generator V 0.5.zip DllCall and Struct Generator V 0.4.zip