There was a laundry list of other refactorings that were needed: sensical Moving the DLL name from first to last, I was able to provide reasonableĭefault arguments for the prototype, return type and the DLL. The first order of business was changing the order of the arguments. Match how it was actually being used in practice. There were several other refactorings that I felt it needed to more closely In addition, the current Win32API library was written in the bad old Rubyġ.6.x days, which means it doesn't use the newer allocation framework. I have far too many libraries invested in it to let it Slated for removal from Ruby 2.0 and it will not receive any updates in the The current Win32API library that ships with the standard library has been

Motivation at the time the project was originally created. NOTE: Some of the information below is now out of date, but explains my Removed the support for lower case prototype and return types.Reader methods for the function name, effective function name, prototype,.Sensible default arguments for the prototype, return type and DLL name.This library supports a separate string type for const char* (S).This library supports raw function pointers.call ( 0 ) Differences between win32-api and Win32API call ( hlib, 'MessageBeep' ) func = Win32:: API:: Function. new ( 'GetProcAddress', 'LP', 'L' ) hlib = LoadLibrary. new ( 'LoadLibrary', 'P', 'L' ) GetProcAddress = API. call ( EnumWindowsProc, 'UEDIT32' ) # Raw function pointer example - System beep LoadLibrary = API. new ( 'GetWindowText', 'LPI', 'I', 'user32' ) EnumWindowsProc = API:: Callback.

new ( 'EnumWindows', 'KP', 'L', 'user32' ) GetWindowText = API. strip # Callback example - Enumerate windows EnumWindows = API. new ( 'GetUserName', 'PP', 'I', 'advapi32' ) GetUserName. Require 'win32/api' include Win32 # Typical example - Get user name buf = 0.

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