How can the CVI callback return value be used?

[Darren Draper]

In LabWindows/CVI, the callback functions that I generate in my project are of type int, and by default return the value 0. How is this return value used, and can it be used for returning any information?

[HeinerI]

Here's the answer, which you can find in the CVI context help:

Swallowing Events
User callbacks must always return 0 unless they intend to swallow the event to which they are responding. To swallow the event, the callback should return 1.

Only user input (mouse click and keypress events) and commit events can be swallowed. If swallowed, no more callbacks are called for that event. If a user input event is swallowed, the user?s mouse click or keypress is ignored. If a commit event is swallowed, it is not placed into the GetUserEvent queue.

Note The following events can be swallowed:

EVENT_COMMIT
EVENT_KEYPRESS
EVENT_LEFT_CLICK
EVENT_LEFT_DOUBLE_CLICK
EVENT_RIGHT_CLICK
EVENT_RIGHT_DOUBLE_CLICK
EVENT_END_TASK
EVENT_MARK_STATE_CHANGE
EVENT_CO
LLAPSE
EVENT_DRAG
EVENT_DROP
EVENT_EXPAND
EVENT_SELECTION_CHANGE
EVENT_SORT

Regards,
Heinrich Illig
National Instruments