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From: "Dennis Weldy" <nojunkmail@ever.com>
Subject: Re: Dll files
Date: 1998/02/20
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If you can call DLL functions written in C from your Ada program (through a
library file) then you can call the Win32 API. Linking with the API just
involves using the correct import library
(GDI, KERNEL, etc).

Dennis
Andy Perkins wrote in message <34EC8B90.EEDC9238@vci.net>...
>Nick Roberts wrote:
>
>> Use of DLLs implies Windows, which implies availability of the Windows
GDI
>> (Graphical Device Interface), which is a part of the Windows API, and
will
>> drive SVGA as well as umpteen other graphics protocols.  So it sounds to
me
>> like you just want to use the Windows API direct.
>
>    That would be the best course, if I were planning to use the finished
>product in a C program.  The DLL will eventually be converted to an Ada
library
>file and imported into an Ada program.  Since the DLL can be converted to
an
>Ada library file, Ada can use (in a manner of speaking) DLL files, but as
far
>as I know, there is no way to use the Windows API from within Ada.
>
>Andy
>