[REBOL] Re: Calling Windows API
From: rotenca::telvia::it at: 13-Dec-2004 20:12
Patrick Philipot wrote:
>RPT> st: make struct! [
>RPT> VolumeNameBuffer [string!]
>RPT> FileSystemNameBuffer [string!]
>RPT> ] reduce [VNB: make string! 100 FSNB: make string! 100]
>RPT> GetVolumeInfo "C:\" VNB 20 0 0 0 FSNB 20
>
>Thanks Romano
>
>Very strange indeed. And I don't get why it's working. It seems that
>Rebol is doing a lot of things behind my back.
>
The fact is that a string! in a struct! is used by rebol like a C string
(0 terminated).
So st/FileSystemNameBuffer return a rebol string which ends at the first 0.
But the problem is that you cannot pass st/FileSystemNameBuffer to
GetVolumeInfo because st/FileSystemNameBuffer is indeed a Rebol string!
copy of the C string in the struct. So I use this workaround:
reduce [VNB: make string! 100 FSNB: make string! 100]
where I get in FNSB a pointer to the C string and then pass that pointer to GetVolumeInfo:
GetVolumeInfo "C:\" VNB 20 0 0 0 FSNB 20
You must think that st/FileSystemNameBuffer is a pointer to the same memory area pointed
by FNSB, the difference is that when Rebol uses the first, it makes a copy of that memory
only until the first 0; when Rebol uses the second, it reads it until the string! length
(which is 0 until you insert something in it, so it is always "" in our example). So:
probe st/FileSystemNameBuffer ; "NTFS"
probe FSNB ; ""
also if they share the same memory storage area.
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Ciao
Romano Paolo Tenca
