Using WinAmps API

Has anyone got experience using this? Im trying to retrieve the file name of the item curently playing in the playlist?

Public Const IPC_GETPLAYLISTFILE = 211

TempL = SendMessageM(WinAMPhWnd, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_GETPLAYLISTFILE)

the problem is the code returns a 'long' variable which is a pointer to where the "filename" is stored.

How can I retrieve the string from this??

in C++ the code looks like this, how to covert this to VB:

char *name = SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_USER, index, IPC_GETPLAYLISTFILE); /*get filename

plz help.

I've done some job comparing ASM and VB and I've found out that the String variables, when passed to an proc, are passed as pointers.
Try this accordingly:
Declare the function As String instead of As Long. I think it should work.