[AccessD] Access 32-64 bit question

Bill Benson bensonforums at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 17:27:30 CST 2021


Declare and use refular functions that use the APIs and declare variables
to send to the APIs and code like strPtr, AddressOf and a ton of areas IN
the main code is what I am talking about. This is where I spent the vast
majority of my time.

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 6:22 PM Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Possibly but not necessarily how to declare and use. Hopefully no one
> requires me to show code to probem my point- can’t, company would forbid.
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:58 PM Jim Dettman via AccessD <
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:
>
>> << I don't know how to distinguish which arguments need to be converted>>
>>
>>   You look them up in the Win32API_PtrSafe.txt that was referenced
>> earlier.
>>
>>    Give us five or six of the declares you are using, and we'll show you
>> how
>> they need to appear.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AccessD On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
>> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2021 11:23 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 32-64 bit question
>>
>> Martin.
>> Thanks for the link.  I have read it through and still have one problem.
>>
>> "To reiterate, you must modify the Declare statement to include the
>> PtrSafe qualifier,
>> and you must update any variables within the statement that need to hold
>> 64-bit quantities so that the variables use 64-bit data types.".
>>
>> I don't know how to distinguish which arguments need to be converted
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 1:49 AM Martin <martinreid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Arthur
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-between-the-64-bit-or-32-b
>> it-version-of-office-2dee7807-8f95-4d0c-b5fe-6c6f49b8d261
>> <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-between-the-64-bit-or-32-bit-version-of-office-2dee7807-8f95-4d0c-b5fe-6c6f49b8d261>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Martin
>> >
>> > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, 22:04 Arthur Fuller, <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I was praying for a better solution, but oh Well. So I uninstall
>> Office
>> > 365
>> > > and then reinstall Office 2007 and then reinstall Office 365, which,
>> > seeing
>> > > the previous installation, will install the 32-bit version.. There
>> goes
>> > > another entire days's work. Such is life.
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 1:12 PM Jim
>> > >
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