Type declarations

The API calls have exactly the same name in Visual Basic API as they have in the C API defined earlier. When passing arguments use the following equivalences. Note that pointers are handled by VB automatically using ByRef declarations.

Row and key buffers must be declared as byte arrays and referenced by their zero'th element e.g.

DIM rc As Long
Dim recno As Long
Dim h As Long
Dim path As Long
Dim RecBuf(400) As Byte
Dim RecBuf(MAXKEYLEN) As Byte
rc = KISAMReadNext(h,path,RecBuf(0),key(0),recno)

The buffers must be declared large enough. However the column buffer used by KISAMGetString should be declared as a fixed length string. For instance

Dim ColBuf As String *40
rc = KISAMGetString(h,RecBuf(0),"SURNAME",0,ColBuf,40)