Use ByVal to Pass a Control as an Argument to a DLL or VBX

ID: Q129827

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

In previous versions of Visual Basic, when you passed a control to a DLL or VBX, your function declaration looked like this:


   Declare Function fDoNothing Lib "MyFun.vbx" (ctlX as Control) As Integer

Now, in Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0, the keyword ByVal must be used when passing the same control, so now your function declaration must look like this:


   Declare Function fDoNothing Lib "MyFun.vbx" (ByVal ctlX as Control)_
      As Integer

The Visual Basic API was changed. Now, functions expecting a control as a parameter require a handle to the control, an HCTL. Omitting ByVal within the parameter list causes a pointer to the HCTL to be passed instead of the HCTL itself. To ensure an HCTL is passed, use the ByVal keyword. This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: 4.00 vb4win vb4all

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