Error with DLL while calling from VB.

[RyanCross]

Thanks a lot Tim, you're the man!

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Thank you,
Ryan M. Cross
Webmaster FlexiFish Inc. UK
Likuid Creations Inc.

[RyanCross]

Thanks I'll try it.

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Thank you,
Ryan M. Cross
Webmaster FlexiFish Inc. UK
Likuid Creations Inc.

[Tom Hanlin]

You've declared ActiveIP with BYVAL prt&, but your DLL code is
expecting to see BYREF prt&. You need to make them match.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[RyanCross]

It's a PB made DLL it's made to get the active IP. The declare I'm using is:

Declare Function ActiveIP Lib "C:\IPROTO.DLL" Alias "ACTIVEIP" (serverIP$, ByVal prt&) As String

And here's the code in the DLL:

#COMPILE DLL
#DIM NONE

UNION in_addr
      s_addr AS LONG
      s AS STRING * 4
END UNION

TYPE sockaddr_in
     sin_family AS WORD
     sin_port AS WORD
     sin_addr AS in_addr
     sin_zero AS STRING * 8
END TYPE


DECLARE FUNCTION getsockname LIB "wsock32.dll" ALIAS "getsockname" (BYVAL s AS LONG, sname AS sockaddr_in, namelen AS LONG) AS LONG
DECLARE FUNCTION TcpAddr(BYVAL s AS LONG) AS LONG
DECLARE FUNCTION FormatIP(RawAddr AS LONG) AS STRING

FUNCTION ActiveIP(serverIP AS STRING, prt AS LONG) EXPORT AS STRING
hSocket& = FREEFILE
TCP OPEN PORT prt AT serverIP AS hSocket& TIMEOUT 10
FUNCTION = FormatIP(TcpAddr(hSocket&))
CLOSE hSocket&
END FUNCTION


FUNCTION TcpAddr(BYVAL s AS LONG) AS LONG
   LOCAL sa AS sockaddr_in
   LOCAL l  AS LONG
   LOCAL x AS LONG
   s = FILEATTR(s,2)
   l = SIZEOF(sa)
   IF getsockname(s, sa, l) = 0 THEN
      x = sa.sin_addr.s_addr
      FUNCTION = sa.sin_addr.s_addr
   END IF
END FUNCTION

FUNCTION FormatIP(RawAddr AS LONG) AS STRING

   DIM sAddr AS STRING

   sAddr = MKL$(RawAddr)
   FUNCTION = FORMAT$(ASC(MID$(sAddr, 1, 1))) + "." + _
              FORMAT$(ASC(MID$(sAddr, 2, 1))) + "." + _
              FORMAT$(ASC(MID$(sAddr, 3, 1))) + "." + _
              FORMAT$(ASC(MID$(sAddr, 4, 1)))
END FUNCTION

Thanks.


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Thank you,
Ryan M. Cross
Webmaster FlexiFish Inc. UK
Likuid Creations Inc.

Ryan,

Could you be more specific? Which DLL are you trying to call? Is it a PB-created DLL, or is it a Win32 system DLL? In either case, what does the method signature look like? How are you declaring the API in VB?

Thanks,

Jason

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[RyanCross]

Here's what I'm using:
VB 6.0 Enterprise
PB/DLL 6.0
Windows 2000 (NTFS not FAT32)

When I call this certian DLL I made VB6.EXE gets an Application Error:

The instruction at "0x03cf109b" referenced memory at "0x00000050". The memory could not be "read".

Any ideas?

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Thank you,
Ryan M. Cross
Webmaster FlexiFish Inc. UK
Likuid Creations Inc.

[This message has been edited by RyanCross (edited October 09, 2000).]