On Wednesday 26 May 2004 22:23, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> First, I'm running a hopelessly ancient version (5.0.1) of LabView. As
> soon as I can get the boss to spring for it I'll upgrade but until then,
> I'm stuck...
>
> I'm trying to write a VI that will return the timezone the computer clock
> is set to. There's a "nifty" winAPI call called GetTimeZoneInformation
> that includes the "bias" which is what I'm looking for, but how to call
> it? It wants a structure as an argument and I can't figure out how to set
> it up to do what I want...
>
> What I've tried so far, is to create a byte array that's 46 bytes long (as
> near as I can tell, that's the size of the structure.) Converted that to
> a string, passed the string to the "call library" function and wired the
> output to a string indicator. When I run it, I either get an error
> complaining about gnrclist.c, line 192 or the dreaded "illegal operation".
> Either way, LabView goes away...
>
> Any advice?
> Thanks!
> Bruce
Yepp. Did you set the call library node to 'stdcall (WINAPI)' calling
convention?
As I don't have 5.0 on my machines anymore, I can just show you what I did,
see the attachments (probably only in the private mail, though).
Greetings,
J�rg
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