Creating a Dll structure

[Rizzet]

Hi, ive tried creating this dll structure to CDBFAPI.DLL but failed,

Could you help me?

struct DBF {
    [...]
    char    *filename;          // the name of DBF-file
    char    *filename_memo;     // the name of a memo-file (DBT or FPT)
        char    *filename_hdr;    // the name of header-file (HDR)
    
        struct  Header hdr;         // the first 32 bytes of header
        struct  Field fld[2048];    // the description of fields
        char      als[2048][32];    // headers of fields
    
        int     Fieldorder[2048];   // the order of  fields
    
        struct  Options opt;        // options
    
        unsigned short num_fld;     // the number of fields
        [...]   
        int memo_field;         // the current memo-field or -1, 
                        // if a memo-fields is not present
        [...]   
        char    *record_block;      // pointer to area of reading/writing
        char    *str;           // pointer to area of the return of lines
        char    *memo_block;        // pointer to memo-fields
        [...]
        char    *copy_of_record;    // copy of record
        [...]
};

[monoceres]

It's not possible do translate that struct just by looking at it (you need to now how the other structs looks like), but here's some tricks that will be needed:

- A struct in a struct means you insert the other struct in the first, so if the declaration say:

Struct structa{
int test;
int test2;
};

Struct structb{
char x;
structa info;
int age;
};

The AutoIt equal is:

$structb=DllStructCreate("char x;int test;int test2;int age;")

- You cannot declare 2D arrays i a AutoIt DllStruct, however array[32][8] is the same as array[8*32]

- char *string means a pointer to a char array that holds the string, therefore to store a string when the declaration says char *string you do it like this:

$struct=DllStructCreate("ptr ptrtostring;"); Create the struct that has the pointer

$string=DllStructCreate("char name[255];"); Creates the string that actually holds the string
DllStructSetData($string,"name","Andreas!"); Save Andreas! in the string

DllStructSetData($struct,"ptrtostring",DllStructGetPtr($string)); Save the pointer to the string in the first struct

Good luck

[Rizzet]

Hi, that helped alot.. i will try that and hopefully be more succesfull. If not then i probably have a more clear example Code

[Rizzet]

I have a new problem, if the return of a dllcall is a "ptr"/pointer of the same struct. How to use it/read it??

Edited October 13, 2008 by Rizzet