Calling WinAPI from AutoIt

[Unc3nZureD]

Hi guys

Recently I've been trying to get used to the external Dll calling convention of Autoit. I'm okay with basic calls, but as soon as it gets a little bit more complicated (structs, pointers, etc) - I'm dead. For fun I'm just trying to "translate" some of my older C++ projects, so I've got enough idea

 

So, let's see my crap

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I replaced every enum/macros, so you (nor me) doesn't have to reverse them.

 

Now I want to write the equivalent Autoit code, but actually... I'm totally lost. Well, let's see what I tried to code

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Could anyone check what am I doing wrong? I made a quick DLL which hooked SetEntriesInAclA, so I can manually check the parameters, but I'm doing something really wrong, since what my autoit script calls is TOTALLY wrong. I've got no idea where to start debugging and what to correct.

 

I hope you can see my flaw

Thanks for every try!

Edited March 23, 2016 by Unc3nZureD

[InunoTaishou]

Disregard. I misread.

Edited March 23, 2016 by InunoTaishou

[Unc3nZureD]

Ah, facepalm... That fixed 90% of the problems. After this I realised a mistake with strings Parameter required a pointer to a string, but I could only pass an array of chars... Well, I solved it by creating a stuct(char[255]) and grabbed it's pointer Thanks. Now it seems to work.