Using WinLib in Windows NT

[Sebastian Groeneveld]

This is a repost of an earlier question:

Before I use any of the routines of WinLib, I check whether they
are available, using the following routine:

FUNCTION WindowsActive () PUBLIC AS INTEGER
    IF UCASE$(ENVIRON$("OS")) = "WINDOWS_NT" THEN
        FUNCTION = -1
        EXIT FUNCTION
    END IF
    ! mov   ax, &H1600
    ! int   &H2F
    ! cmp   al, 4
    ! jnz   NotWin95
    FUNCTION = -1
    EXIT FUNCTION
NotWin95:
    FUNCTION = 0
END FUNCTION

The detection for WinNT was added by Lance, but now I wonder if
this makes sense.

My question is: are the functions of WinLib (LFN support,
gain focus, etc) available when running under WinNT (or Win2K)?
Could anyone test if they can retrieve a long filename under
WinNT? (so just skip the WindowsActive check)

Thanks in advance!

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Sebastian Groeneveld
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[Lance Edmonds]

You are quoting my code slightly out of context (I only suggested a simple solution to detect NT/2000's presence), but your questions are still quite valid.

How about posting the link to WinLib (and possibly some test code to try out), so folks can answer your questions without having to write a mass of code... Thanks!

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Sebastian Groeneveld]

Lance, you're right, let me put it more clear:
Your code was for detecting Windows NT, and it makes sense! It's
the fact that I included it in my WindowsActive function (to see
if I can use WinLib) that might be wrong...

WinLib can be found at the Powerbasic download section:
http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/...y/WINLIB12.ZIP

And the code shouldn't be too hard to write:

$LINK "WINLIB.PBU"
PRINT LFN("C:\PROGRA~1", 0)

This tries to detect the "Program Files" folder, dunno whether it
exists in Windows NT...

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Sebastian Groeneveld
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[This message has been edited by Sebastian Groeneveld (edited March 28, 2001).]

[Lance Edmonds]

Ok, it works fine in Win2K, returning "C:\Program Files".

I'll test under NT4 later on when I reboot my NT4 box...



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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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