CheckPasswordA
Security and Signatures
Description
The trailing A denotes the ANSI (char) DLL entry point; the ActiveX/COM surface exposes only the Unicode form. Behaviour is identical to CheckPassword and string arguments are interpreted using the current SetAnsiMode code page
Determines if a password is a valid password for the selected document
This is useful when the document has been opened with the user password but confirmation should be obtained from the user before changing security settings
Syntax
Delphi
Function DLCheckPasswordA(InstanceID: Integer; Password: PAnsiChar): Integer;DLL
int DLCheckPasswordA(int InstanceID, const char * Password);Parameters
| Password | The password to check |
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Return values
| 0 | The document is not encrypted or the supplied password is not a valid owner or user password |
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| 1 | Valid user password 2 Valid owner password 3 Valid owner and user password |