[AccessD] API calls crashing

Andy,
Could have been a corrupt/bad M$ update, all things being equal....

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 10:52 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] API calls crashing

Thanks Gustav. Was rather hoping to avoid that. If possible I'd like to understand why, what might cause the problem, in case this happens again.
 

> On 03 February 2015 at 15:30 Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Andy
>
> If the application runs on other (similar) machines, the error should 
> be found in the OS install.
>
> If you can't find out what - I guess you can't - request a reinstall 
> of that machine.
>
> /gustav
>
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Andy Lacey
> Sendt: 3. februar 2015 16:06
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> Emne: [AccessD] API calls crashing
>
> I am totally at a loss on this.
>
> My big Access 97 app (I know, I know, but it works) is crashing on one 
> machine, a machine it has run on for years. I've tracked it down to API calls.
> Any time it calls a Kernel32 API it just exits - no message, no 
> nothing, just closes. Now it's perfectly possible that central ICT 
> here have installed or updated something overnight which has 
> interfered, in fact I can only think that must have happened. Question is, what can I do about it?
>
> This is a typical api call which crashes out:
>
> Private Declare Function apiGetComputerName Lib "Kernel32" Alias _ 
> "GetComputerNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long
>
> I know I could use Environ to get the computer name but that's not the point.
> There are lots of similar calls and they're all failing.
>
> Help please.
>
> Andy
>
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