Hi, > On 20 Nov 2016, at 00:52, Mark Bestley <s...@bestley.co.uk> wrote: > > > Sorry I have not got a Windows machine here but MSDN should provide all the > documentation you need. Some of these types are not translatable and have to > be treated as opaque on the Smalltalk side ie just pass as data > > All are defined in Windows.h and MSDN provides documentation - for types see > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383751(v=vs.85).aspx > > Note the naming of many of these comes from Windows 2 or earlier so was used > on 16 bit programs > > handle_t / HANDLE is a pseudo pointer that Windows has created and Windows > system calls understand. They will dereference it to find something useful - > This is similar to a POSIX file handle that you can only use as a parameter > to system calls.
and these are handled by UFFI by FFIConstantHandle (read the comment) > > PVOID is a pointer to a void ie just a pointer to something > > LPCTSTR and TCHAR depend on Unicode yep… maybe you want to see OSWindows from Torsten, he already aliased many of this types. Esteban > > In Wnndows C API there are usually two forms of many systems call they either > take 8 bit ANSI strings or 16 bit ones which MS says is Unicode > (unfortuneatly for us now MS made the decision of 16 bit when all Unicode > points fitted into 16 bits so not now a simple mapping. See > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vs/alm/dd183415(v=vs.85).aspx and > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2dax2h36.aspx > > I'll assume you want Unicode > > TCHAR is then a 16 bit Unicode character > LPCTSTR is a const long pointer to a 16 bit Unicode string > > I would suggest finding a book or long tutorial :( and sorry I can't suggest > any as I read this from Petzold books over 25 years ago > > Mark > > > On 19/11/2016 18:51, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: >> So now I need to port my CPPBridge to Windows and I have to deal with >> this monster. And it would not be Windows if it did not make life a lot >> harder , so it defines its own types. >> >> Such types are >> >> handle_t / HANDLE >> TCHAR >> LPCTSTR >> PVOID >> >> also I will have to deal with Unicode , I have no clue how to proceed, >> any help is greatly appreciated. >> > > > -- > Mark > >
