NetApi32 Again... Am I missing something?

[Paul Dwyer]

Is there a reason why nearly every NetApi32 function has all of it's parameters as "As Any" ?

Most of the parameters are actually pointers to wide strings (LPWSTR) or UDTs (User_Info_3) etc

Was this part rushed or am I just not getting it? I suspect the later (as I have been consistantly prooved wrong of late )




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Paul Dwyer
Network Engineer
Aussie in Tokyo

[Dave Navarro]

PowerBASIC does not natively support Unicode strings which is what the majority of the Net32 API uses.

Different programmers support Unicode in various ways in their programs. I tend to use dynamic strings and pass the STRPTR when using Unicode. I've seen others that use fixed-length string buffers.

--Dave


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[Paul Dwyer]

Thanks Dav,

I tend to use Dynamic strings or Word arrays myself, Using ASCIIZ strings doesn't work because functions like Len() and Right$() etc stop at the first chr$(0).

Cheers

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Network Engineer
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