Moving to 64bit access

[tagteam]

I am moving to access 64bit. I have already updated my VBA Declare statements to use PtrSafe. I noticed that I also use Long in several places. After updating PtrSafe I tested my 32 bit DB in 64 and it worked fine.




My question is should I still try to update all of my Long to LongPtr?

[isladogs]

No. However you do need to convert all handles/ pointers to LongPtr and you may need to convert the API output to LongPtr in some cases.

If you look on my website I have a series of 5 articles on 32 to 64-bit conversion. The first article has links to two utilities that will help ensure the conversions are correct.
I can’t give the article URL as I’m answering on my phone but the site link is in my signature line below.

[tagteam]

Thanks for the info and reference to your website. I have checked it out and read over the pages. My databases are pretty simple, I don't really know what a handle/pointer is really. The only place I use Long is for variable declaration:
Dim CustomerID As Long
CustomerID = Me.CustomerID

Stuff like that. Is that a handler/pointer or just a declared variable?

[CJ_London]

Hwnd is a pointer to a form window- that needs to be a longptr

[isladogs]

I was referring to converting pointers in API declarations and type statements
Hwnd is one such example but there are many more