shlobj.pp SHStartNetConnectionDialogA problem
lazarus / 67-Windows

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440bx · 2025-09-15 03:17

Hello,

shlobj.pp defines the following:Code: Pascal
 [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i   function
SHStartNetConnectionDialogA(hwnd:HWND; pszRemoteName:lpcstr;
dwType:DWord):HRESULT;StdCall;external External_library name
'SHStartNetConnectionDialogA';  function
SHStartNetConnectionDialogW(hwnd:HWND; pszRemoteName:lpcwstr;
dwType:DWord):HRESULT;StdCall;external External_library name
'SHStartNetConnectionDialogW'; The problem is the _named_ function
SHStartNetConnectionDialogA  does _not_ exist from WinXP onwards.  A
program that statically uses that function will fail to load.

The "W" entry point does exist.

FYI: SHStartNetConnectionDialogA is available as ordinal 12 (unnamed
and undocumented) from Win XP to Win 11.

It would probably be indicated to remove SHStartNetConnectionDialogA 
or at least put a comment that the function is not available from Win
XP onwards and to use the "W" version instead since that one is
available.

HTH.