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Is it possible to call a Windows API function from within mIRC?

with the help of a mIRC DLL yes.

mIRC calls DLL calls API function with any params you want from the mIRC -> DLL interface

you will have to do some string conversion from your mIRC data that you send to the DLL which is all in one string and your API call inside the DLL.

for help on creating DLLs in mIRC, you can look at various scripting sites, they all have a tutorial lying in somewhere.

Yeah, I figured I could do it making my own DLL and calling that. I guess I was more curious if there was already something out there along the lines of Windows rundll.exe, basically a DLL for mIRC already made that could pass my request along and return the information. The function I want to call is GetFileVersionInfo().

If it's just this function you want, you may find this snippet useful.

That seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Thank you, kind Sir.