One Small Wish

[Andrew Lindsay]

Heaven forbid a new wish list starts up but...

Please increase the number of arguments a function can have.

Trying to register functions with the Excel API means I
can't have the help prompts that I want because I only
have 15 arguments for a call.

Please, please, please. Otherwise I will have to dust
off my C compiler.

Regards

Andrew

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[Lance Edmonds]

The 16-parameter limit can be "worked around"... simply push the parameters onto the stack before calling the DLL. This approach needs some care to be taken, but it can be done this way.


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Lance
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[Andrew Lindsay]

Originally posted by Lance Edmonds:
The 16-parameter limit can be "worked around"... simply push the parameters onto the stack before calling the DLL. This approach needs some care to be taken, but it can be done this way.

Lance,

Could you give an example of this?

Regards

Andrew



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[Cecil Williams]

Can the additoinal parameters be passed in an UDT?

Cecil

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[Lance Edmonds]

I don't have any example code handy, but I think this was discussed on the BBS before... Has anyone else here used this technique?

Dave Navarro may have something in his collection of snippets... Dave are you lurking?

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[Edwin Knoppert]

I believe my array descriptor code did this...

Yep:

luBound = 0
! PUSH luBound
! PUSH pArray
! CALL CDW
! MOV RetVal, EAX



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[Andrew Lindsay]

Originally posted by Edwin Knoppert:
I believe my array descriptor code did this...

Yep:

luBound = 0
! PUSH luBound
! PUSH pArray
! CALL CDW
! MOV RetVal, EAX

Edwin,

Could you please point me towards the full code listing here -
The dreaded flu has struck me down, and I am not thinking
straight enough to work it out for myself.

Many Thanks

Andrew Lindsay


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