C++ to PB

[Brad Warmuskerken]

Here's a function from a sample C++ program that I'm trying to
convert to PB.

int GetName(char* szBuffer, int* pnBufferSize)

Here is what I'm doing
Function GetName ALIAS "GetName" (szBuffer as ASCIIZ, pnBufferSize as LONG) export as Long


I'm guessing that I should be doing something different with
pnBufferSize since its a pointer, but I'm not sure what.

Any pointers? No pun intended

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[This message has been edited by Brad Warmuskerken (edited December 03, 2003).]

[Adam J. Drake]

Well,

In PB, you can go ahead and specify your buffer size before hand, (ie: szBuffer AS ASCIIZ*255). ASCIIZ will automatically null terminate the string for you, so if the name is 70 characters, when you check the length, it will be 70. As well, you could return the name variable as a string from the function.

Also, technically, in PB, unless you specify the BYVAL keyword in passing of parameters, the default is BYREF which is actually passing a pointer to the data to your FUNCTION.

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[This message has been edited by Adam J. Drake (edited December 03, 2003).]

[Brad Warmuskerken]

Thanks Adam.

I guess I should have stated that I'm more confused about how
to declare in PB the pointer to the integer in C++.

In PB help, it has char* as ASCIIZ, but nothing for int*

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[Russ Srole]

Brad,

Int* is a pointer to a 32 bit number. So what you've done should work.

Russ Srole

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[Kev Peel]

"int* var" translates to "ByRef var As Long" in PB, so your translation is correct (the default is ByRef).

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Kev Peel
http://www.kgpsoftware.com

[JOSE ROCA]

The translation mostly depends of how you are going to use the function.
This function apparently is designed to work with any kind of buffer, not
only asciiz strings, otherwise will not need that you pass the length of
the buffer. So, if you want to use an asciiz string, declare it as:

Declare Function GetName ALIAS "GetName" (szBuffer as ASCIIZ, BYVAL pnBufferSize as LONG) export as Long

and use it passing the asciiz string and the SIZEOF of this string.

If you want to use a dynamic string, declare it as:

Declare Function GetName ALIAS "GetName" (BYVAL szBuffer as DWORD, BYVAL pnBufferSize as LONG) export as Long

and use it passing the STRPTR of the dynamic string and the LEN of this string,
that must be initialized with spaces. There are more possible variations, like
using an array of bytes or a fixed length string.



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