DAGetInformationA

Document properties, Direct access functionality

Description

The trailing A denotes the ANSI (char) DLL entry point; the ActiveX/COM surface exposes only the Unicode form. Behaviour is identical to DAGetInformation and string arguments are interpreted using the current SetAnsiMode code page

Retrieves information from the document information section. This could be standard information such as Author and Subject, or custom information.

Syntax

Delphi

Function DLDAGetInformationA(InstanceID, FileHandle: Integer; Key: PAnsiChar): PAnsiChar;

DLL

const char * DLDAGetInformationA(int InstanceID, int FileHandle, const char * Key);

Parameters

FileHandleA handle returned by the DAOpenFile, DAOpenFileReadOnly or DAOpenFromStream functions For standard information use "Author", "Title", "Subject", "Keywords", "Creator", or "Producer". For custom information any other string can be used.
Key