Re: How do I use cards.dll from Aonix OA?

["DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com>]

I don't know if it's the most direct way, but try this:

  DECLARE
    cdt_Str : Interaces.C.Char_Array := Interfaces.C.To_C(
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CARDS.DLL"  );
  BEGIN
    DLL := LoadLibrary( cdt_str(0)'UNCHECKED_ACCESS );
  END;

I haven't tested this, but it is very similar to other code that I use which
does work.

SteveD


"Petter Fryklund" <qsbpefr@esavionics.se> wrote in message
news:9na792$iqi$1@newstoo.ericsson.se...
> I tried to use LoadLibrary in the following example:
>
> cdt_Str : constant String := "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CARDS.DLL" &
> Character'First;
>
> DLL : Hinstance;
>
> ....
>
> DLL := LoadLIbrary (cdt_Str);
>
> but this only returned 0, which I assume is no good.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Petter Fryklund wrote in message <9mvmsf$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?
> >
> >
>
>