Opttech raat sort header help needed

[Mike Doty]

'pbread.bas works fine using ASCIIZ in this example  
'Note: DO not use LSET with ASCIIZ strings
'
'To work with dynamic string would STRPTR be used?  
'
DECLARE SUB Rsvb LIB "OTSW32.DLL" ALIAS "s_1raat" (BYVAL func AS LONG, IoArea AS ASCIIZ, IOAreaLen AS DWORD, retcode AS LONG)
'C
'extern _declspec(dllexport) void _stdcall WINAPI s_1raat(unsigned int,LPSTR,LPINT,LPINT)
 
FUNCTION PBMAIN AS LONG
  DIM func AS DWORD
  DIM controlstatement AS STRING
  DIM IoArea           AS ASCIIZ * 255
  DIM IoAreaLen        AS LONG
  DIM RetCode          AS DWORD
  DIM sValueToSort     AS STRING
  DIM NumberOfStrings  AS LONG
  DIM randomCharacter  AS LONG
  DIM StringLength     AS LONG
  DIM sResults         AS STRING
  func = 1
  controlStatement = "S(1,2,C,A)"
  IoArea = controlStatement
  IoAreaLen = LEN(controlstatement)
  CALL RSVB(Func,IOArea,IoAreaLen,RetCode)
  IF retcode <> 0 THEN
    ? "Unable to init simple test"
    GOTO endPgm
  END IF
func = 2
 
FOR NumberOfStrings = 1 TO 10
  sValueToSort = ""                                        'Create random string
  FOR StringLength  =  1 TO RND(1,10)
   RandomCharacter = RND(65,90)
   sValueToSort = sValueToSort + CHR$(RandomCharacter)
  NEXT
  IoAreaLen = LEN(sValueToSort)
  Ioarea  = sValueToSort
  CALL RSVB(Func,IOArea,IoAreaLen,RetCode)
  IF retcode <> 0 THEN
    ? "Retcode giving first record" + STR$(Retcode)
     GOTO EndPgm
  END IF
NEXT
DO
  func = 3
  CALL RSVB(Func,IOArea,IoAreaLen,RetCode)
  IF retcode >0 THEN EXIT DO
  #IF %DEF(%PB_CC32)
      ? MID$(IoArea,1,IoAreaLen)                              'just print using PBCC
  #ELSE
    sResults = sResults + MID$(IoArea,1,IoAreaLen) + $CRLF    'create a string so only 1 MSGBOX with PBWin
  #ENDIF
LOOP
  ? sResults
EndPgm:
  #IF %DEF(%PB_CC32)
    ? "Press any key to end"
    WAITKEY$
  #ENDIF
END FUNCTION

[Mike Doty]

Thanks, Michael. I'm going back to the code in a few minutes and will try your suggestions.

[Michael Mattias]

Your results seem to suggest the control statement is being ignored.

In the DECLARE, should "lpstring" be translated to 'BYVAL AS STRING?' I would think it should be "BYVAL AS LONG or DWORD" and you should pass "STRPTR(IoArea)."

Or, just use a BYVAL override to STRPTR(IoArea), but I'd also check the doc to see if the required length is supposed to include a null terminator, and if so make sure ControlStatement includes CHR$(0) and included in the passed length.

MCM

[Mike Doty]

'pbread.bas
'Visual Basic declaration
DECLARE SUB Rsvb LIB "OTSW32.DLL" ALIAS "s_1raat" (BYVAL func AS LONG, BYVAL IoArea AS STRING,  IOAreaLen AS DWORD, retcode AS LONG)
'C
'extern _declspec(dllexport) void _stdcall WINAPI s_1raat(unsigned int,LPSTR,LPINT,LPINT)
FUNCTION PBMAIN AS LONG
  DIM func AS DWORD
  DIM controlstatement AS STRING
  DIM IoArea           AS STRING
  DIM IoAreaLen        AS LONG
  DIM RetCode          AS DWORD
  DIM Testdata         AS STRING
  DIM sDummy           AS STRING
  
  IoArea = SPACE$(80)
  
  
  func = 1
  controlStatement = "S(1,2,C,A)
  ? "controlstatement ";controlstatement
  LSET IoArea = controlStatement
  IoAreaLen = LEN(controlstatement)
  CALL RSVB(Func,IOArea,IoAreaLen,RetCode)
  IF retcode <> 0 THEN
      ? "Unable to init simple test"
  ELSE
      ? "Opttech init successful"
  END IF
  
func = 2                                      'give 2 values to the sort
  IoAreaLen = 2
  sDummy = "99"
  LSET Ioarea  = sDummy
  CALL RSVB(Func,IOArea,IoAreaLen,RetCode)
  IF retcode <> 0 THEN ? "Retcode giving first record";Retcode: GOTO EndPgm
 ? "First record passed"IoAreaLen
 
  sDummy = "01"
  LSET IoArea = sDummy
  CALL RSVB(Func,IOArea,IoAreaLen,RetCode)
  IF retcode <> 0 THEN  ? "Error giving record";Retcode:GOTO EndPgm
  ?  "Second record passed"
func = 3
DO
  CALL RSVB(Func,IOArea,IoAreaLen,RetCode)
  IF retcode >0 THEN EXIT DO
  ? "Returned: " ; MID$(IoArea,1,IoAreaLen)
LOOP
EndPgm:
  ? "Last retCode was";RetCode
  ? "Press any key to end"
  WAITKEY$
END FUNCTION
'
'Results wanted:
'01
'99
'Result obtained:
'01
'01