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This library is automatically loaded the first time the function is used.</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148452" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11"> 58<emph>Argumentlist:</emph> List of parameters representing arguments that are passed to the procedure when it is called. The type and number of parameters is dependent on the executed procedure.</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147289" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12"> 60<emph>Type:</emph> Defines the data type of the value that is returned by a function procedure. You can exclude this parameter if a type-declaration character is entered after the name.</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3146922" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">To pass a parameter to a subroutine as a value instead of as a reference, the parameter must be indicated by the keyword <emph>ByVal</emph>.</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153951" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="14">Example:</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154320" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Declare Sub MyMessageBeep Lib "user32.dll" Alias "MessageBeep" ( long )</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150417" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Sub ExampleDeclare</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Dim lValue As Long</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145647" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">lValue = 5000</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145801" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">MyMessageBeep( lValue )</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145253" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">FreeLibrary("user32.dll" )</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149402" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">End Sub</paragraph> 70</body> 71</helpdocument> 72