Re: About to give up...

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <6qbt86$dh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  i96danma@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> The first steps were no problem and I quickly got used to the API. The worst
> problems though were the type conversions, where Ada's type checking suddenly
> was an obstacle to overcome, and the fact that you always have to take care of
> the return values, even if you don't care. And it seems as Win32 returns a lot
> of values that are, most of the time, unimportant.

I will typically write my own binding for OS routines which returns an object
of the type I want to deal with. Bindings aren't that tough to write. Just 2
lines of code (not counting any special types you declare for them). Then
I'll write a "thick" binding which provides an Ada-like interface to the OS
routine, and doesn't burden the caller with those useless input and return
values.

Often times in dealing with OS routines written for users of type-unsafe
languages you will have to make use of Unchecked_Conversions. That's ok. Just
be careful.

As for the useless values, just put them into "Trash" variables. No big deal.

T.E.D.

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