Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010420141251.020ca800@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:14:42 -0400 To: Christian Lescher From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: AW: DLL function with string result? Cc: Lescher Christian , "'Andrew Markebo'" , Troy Noble , cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3AE07C0B.928C7680@lescher.de> References: <4.3.1.2.20010420103953.022a2700@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20010420122559.0224b5f0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:12 PM 4/20/2001, Christian Lescher wrote: >I found that in windowsx.h of cygwin/gcc there are the following functions defined: > >#define GlobalAllocPtr(flags,cb) (GlobalLock(GlobalAlloc((flags),(cb)))) >#define GlobalFreePtr(lp) (GlobalUnlockPtr(lp),(BOOL)GlobalFree(GlobalPtrHandle(lp))) > >May these functions also be used for copying a string? How must they be used? (Maybe this works also for string > 64 KB?!) >Is this also a way for interworking of Borland and Visual? These aren't Cygwin functions. They are Win32 functions. You'll probably find all the information you're looking for about them if you check the MSDN for documentation on these calls. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple