win32utils devel - Feb 2008 - Possible windows-api enhancement - literal data types

Hi all,

This is something I was thinking of adding to the windows-api library
(the win32-api wrapper). Instead of passing just ''P'',
''L'', ''I'', ''B'' or
''K'' for the prototype or return type, you could pass a
stringified
Windows data type, e.g. ''DWORD'', ''BOOL'',
etc, and it would convert it
automatically for you.

For example:

require ''windows/api''
include Windows

GetCurrentDirectory = API.new(''GetCurrentDirectory'',
[''DWORD'',
''LPTSTR''], ''DWORD'',
''kernel32'')

That would be converted to [''L'', ''P''] and
''L'', respectively, behind the
scenes.

My secret motivation for this is for JRuby, where I don''t think a
generic ''P'' will work for all pointers, since I need to know
the data
type up front in some cases.

Seem reasonable?

Regards,

Dan


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