Help with DllCall and custom Return Format

[Leo1906]

I am currently experimenting with DLLCalls and was wondering how I can get a custom Dataformat back?

The call goes like this:

GDALDatasetH CPL_DLL CPL_STDCALL GDALOpenEx( const char* pszFilename,
                                             unsigned int nOpenFlags,
                                             const char* const* papszAllowedDrivers,
                                             const char* const* papszOpenOptions,
                                             const char* const* papszSiblingFiles )

This is taken out of the header file (c++) of the Dll.

So the return value is a GDALDataset. How can I save this returned value into a variable in Autoit so that I can access it later on in another function call?

I tried like this:

$struct = DllStructCreate("GDALDataset *poDS;")
$ret = DllCall($dll, DllStructGetPtr($struct), "GDALOpenEx", "char", "D:\Bundeslaender.shp", "int", "0x04", "char", "", "char", "", "char", "")

But this wont seem to work. Any suggestions?

 

Kind regards,
Leo1906

[Danyfirex]

Hello. It should be something like this.

 

Local $aRet=DllCall("myDll","ptr","GDALOpenEx","str",$pszFilename,"uint",$nOpenFlags,"str",$papszAllowedDrivers,"str",$papszOpenOptions,"str",$papszSiblingFiles)
Local $pGDALDatasetH=$aRet[0]

Saludos

[Leo1906]

Ok, thanks for that

Another question: how do I pass a NULL argument? In C++ I call this function like this:

GDALOpenEx(shapefile, GDAL_OF_VECTOR, NULL, NULL, NULL);

So my DllCall is like this?

$ret = DllCall($dll, "ptr", "_GDALOpenEx@0", "str", "D:\\Bundeslaender.shp", "uint", "0x04", "str", "NULL", "str", "NULL", "str", "NULL")

or like this?

$ret = DllCall($dll, "ptr", "_GDALOpenEx@0", "str", "D:\\Bundeslaender.shp", "uint", "0x04", "str", "", "str", "", "str", "")

 

[Danyfirex]

like this would be ok.

 

$ret = DllCall($dll, "ptr", "_GDALOpenEx@0", "str", "D:\\Bundeslaender.shp", "uint", 0x04, "str", NULL, "str", NULL, "str", NULL)

Edit

Saludos

Edited May 16, 2017 by Danyfirex
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[Leo1906]

Thanks a lot for your help. It seems to work now

Another question related to this. In this DLL are some functions which aren't called by passing arguments.

For example:

int GDALDataset::GetLayerCount()

This is the function I want to call using the GDALDataset created in the step before. Return is an integer. In C++ the call is very simple as you may imagine:

int i = GDALDataset.GetLayerCount();

How can I call this function using Autoit?
This wont work, I think maybe because the function is not expecting some arguments?

$ret = DllCall($dll, "int", "GetLayerCount", "ptr", $ret[0])

 

[Danyfirex]

Hello. Just past nothing.

 

$ret = DllCall($dll, "int", "GetLayerCount")
$int=$ret[0]

Saludos

[Leo1906]

Ok, if I pass nothing than it takes the object created by previous DLLCall?

Another question. I think that the priour DLLCall is still not correct. This is how it's done in C++:

GDALDataset *poDS;
poDS = (GDALDataset*)GDALOpenEx(shapefile, GDAL_OF_VECTOR, NULL, NULL, NULL);

So, as you're executing the Open Command you cast the return to a pointer of the class? I don't know if I am saying it correctly.

Do you think that doing this call in Autoit would be this one here?:

$ret = DllCall($dll, "ptr", "GDALOpenEx", "str", "D:\Bundeslaender.shp", "uint", 0x04, "str", NULL, "str", NULL, "str", NULL)

 

Edited May 17, 2017 by Leo1906

[Danyfirex]

You will get return depends of the return type you use in the return parameter.

 

You will get a ptr in that call. I'm no sure about the casting you will need to do because I dont know what lib are you using. Please share the documentation.

 

 

Saludos

 

 

[Leo1906]

I'm using GDAL:

http://www.gdal.org/classGDALDataset.html#a9cb8585d0b3c16726b08e25bcc94274a

in the current up-to-date version.
I was using this in C++ a few times but now I want to learn more about Autoit and DLLCall's and thought that using this library could be a good way to start. Also when I learned enough I thought about maybe making a UDF to GDAL .. but thats somewhere far in the future

[Danyfirex]

You need to use the C version instead C++.

for getting  GDALDatasetH  the Opaque type used for the C bindings of the C++ GDALDataset class.

 

Saludos

[Leo1906]

I don't really understand. So I need to download the C sourcecode and compile it to C DLL's or what?

[Danyfirex]

I really dont know. I need to check doc. I'll check later when I got some free time.

 

Saludos