The API Viewer

Windows contains thousands of API routines you can call. Remembering the format of even a small number of the routines would be difficult. Therefore, VB includes a special tool called the API Viewer you can use to get help with the format of the API routines.

The API Viewer displays routines and groups them together by subject so that you can locate the routines you need to use.

The API Viewer enables you to locate API routines and arguments and then copy and paste that information into your code window. The following figure shows the API Viewer:

Figure 24.1

Most of the API routines you'll be interested in are located in the Win32api.txt file. Select File, Load Text File from the API Viewer and select Win32api.txt.