[AccessD] Office API's

Heenan, Lambert Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com
Mon Dec 13 14:28:01 CST 2010


Good to know.

Anyone like to make a 64 bit version?

Lambert 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:57 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office API's

I just tried the code using Access 2003 on Windows 7 and it seems to work OK.

Doug

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Heenan, Lambert < Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com> wrote:

> Still in the dark ages of Win XP here. No W7 machines.
>
> By the way, if the user gets the password wrong it will not lock the 
> user ID after N tries and force a password reset the way windows XP's 
> default policy does.
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:
> accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 1:08 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office API's
>
> Have you tried with Vista or W7?
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, 
> Lambert
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:06 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office API's
>
> I've not tested it on Win98 which was 32 bit ( IIRC), so it might work 
> there, but I doubt in Win3x is up to it.
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:39 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office API's
>
> Hi Lambert,
>
> Your comments say, " IMPORTANT: works only under Windows NT and 2000 
> and XP."  Does this mean that it won't work on previous versions of 
> Windows?  Or that it won't work on later versions of Windows?  Or has 
> this been tested on later versions?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, 
> Lambert
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 11:34 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office API's
>
> One API that took me so long to find was one that would provide 
> Windows Authentication. In other words require the user to enter the 
> name and password that was used to start the current Windows session: 
> to prove that they are who fOsUsername says they are.
>
> Private Declare Function LogonUser Lib "Advapi32" Alias "LogonUserA" 
> (ByVal _
>    lpszUserName As String, ByVal lpszDomain As String, _
>    ByVal lpszPassword As String, ByVal dwLogonType As Long, _
>    ByVal dwLogonProvider As Long, phToken As Long) As Long
>
> Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hObject As 
> Long) As _
>    Long
> Const LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT = 0&
> Const LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK = 3&
>
> ' Check whether a username/password pair is correct '
> ' if DOMAIN is omitted, it uses the local account database ' and then 
> asks trusted domains to search their account databases ' until it 
> finds the account or the search is exhausted ' use DOMAIN="." to 
> search only the local account database '
> '  IMPORTANT: works only under Windows NT and 2000 and XP
>
> Private Function CheckWindowsUser(ByVal UserName As String, _
>    ByVal Password As String, Optional ByVal Domain As String) As Boolean
>    Dim hToken As Long, ret As Long
>
> ' The handle hToken is not used by CheckWindowsUser ' but is required 
> by the API LogonUser
>
>    ' provide a default for the Domain name
>    If Len(Domain) = 0 Then Domain = vbNullString
>    ' check the username/password pair
>    ' using LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK delivers the best performance
>    ret = LogonUser(UserName, Domain, Password, LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK, _
>        LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT, hToken)
>
>    ' a non-zero value means success
>    If ret Then
>        CheckWindowsUser = True
>        CloseHandle hToken
>    End If
>
> End Function
>
> Lambert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart 
> McLachlan
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 5:43 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office API's
>
> On 10 Dec 2010 at 16:22, Susan Harkins wrote:
>
> > Yeah, and it's temperamental to boot! ;)
> >
> > Susan H.
>
>
> It works exactly the way it is intended. - just not the way you think 
> it should  :-)
>
> >From Win32.hlp:
>
> The FindWindow function retrieves the handle to the top-level window 
> whose class name and window name match the specified strings. This 
> function does not search child windows.
>
> HWND FindWindow(
>    LPCTSTR lpClassName,        // pointer to class name
>    LPCTSTR lpWindowName        // pointer to window name
>   );
>
> Parameters
> lpClassName
> Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the class name or is 
> an atom that identifies the class-name string. If this parameter is an 
> atom, it must be a global atom created by a previous call to the 
> GlobalAddAtom function. The atom, a 16-bit value, must be placed in 
> the low-order word of lpClassName; the high-order word must be zero.
>
> lpWindowName
> Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the window name (the 
> window's title). If this parameter is NULL, all window names match.
>
> Return Values If the function succeeds, the return value is the handle 
> to the window that has the specified class name and window name. If 
> the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get extended error 
> information, call GetLastError.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
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