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This library is automatically loaded the first time the function is used.</paragraph> 49*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148452" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><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> 50*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147289" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><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> 51*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3146922" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 52*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153951" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 53*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154320" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Declare Sub MyMessageBeep Lib "user32.dll" Alias "MessageBeep" ( long )</paragraph> 54*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150417" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleDeclare</paragraph> 55*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149959" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim lValue As Long</paragraph> 56*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145647" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">lValue = 5000</paragraph> 57*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145801" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">MyMessageBeep( lValue )</paragraph> 58*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145253" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">FreeLibrary("user32.dll" )</paragraph> 59*d976dd13Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149402" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 62