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From: "Petter Fryklund" <qsbpefr@esavionics.se>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: How do I use cards.dll from Aonix OA?
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:44:23 +0200
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I tried to use LoadLibrary in the following example:

cdt_Str : constant String := "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CARDS.DLL" &
Character'First;

DLL : Hinstance;

....

DLL := LoadLIbrary (cdt_Str);

but this only returned 0, which I assume is no good.

Any suggestions?


Petter Fryklund wrote in message <9mvmsf$ld1$1@newstoo.ericsson.se>...
>cards.dll is used by ie solitaire and others games needing a card deck ;-)
>It's probably present in most WIndows systems. I'm trying to learn Windows
>programming and having some fun while I'm doing it :-) I'm a bridge
fanatic.
>I have a command line deal generator that I'd like to convert graphics.
>
>tmoran@acm.org wrote in message ...
>>>No, cdtInit is the initialization of cards.dll. I started with that one
>just
>>>to see if I could use any routine in there. I tried to add the file
>>>cards.dll to the files in the project, but that was obviously not right.
I
>>>couldn't fine any instructions on how to tell the linker where to look.
Do
>>>you know?
>>  If cdtInit is an entry point in cards.dll then you need to call the OS
>>functions (LoadLibraryA et al) to *dynamically* load the DLL and give you
>>a pointer to cdtInit.  At *link time* cards.dll need not even exist.
>>You can either code your own OS calls, or find a routine in a .lib
>>that knows how to do it, and then statically link from that .lib   Where
>>did cards.dll come from and did it have an associated .lib file?
>
>