PRB: Unable to Call W3DBLIB.DLL Functions from Macro Languages

ID Number: Q73213

1.10

WINDOWS

Summary:

SYMPTOMS

The program cannot properly call the Windows version 3.0 DB-LIBRARY

(dblib) functions in W3DBLIB.DLL from the Word for Windows or Excel

for Windows macro languages.

CAUSE

Most of the dblib functions in W3DBLIB.DLL either return a pointer

or take a pointer as a parameter. Neither the Word for Windows or

Excel for Windows macro languages has a pointer data type. Thus,

neither can accept a pointer as a return value from a dblib

function or pass a pointer to a dblib function.

RESOLUTION

This is a limitation of the Word for Windows and Excel for Windows

macro languages.