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DLL Talk / Arguments passed by value and by reference

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N3wton
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Posted: 16th Oct 2009 18:47 Edited at: 16th Oct 2009 18:48
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Basically I have a dll...
and for the command _GetMousePos my function looks like

void _GetMousePos(int& x, int& y);

but how would I use the params in DBpro?

as in c++ i can just use;

int Mx, My;
_GetMousePos(Mx, My);
cout << Mx << ", " << My << endl;

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Diggsey
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Posted: 17th Oct 2009 01:06
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You can't. DBPro commands can only return one value, even if that value is going into a parameter. (like the 'read' command)


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N3wton
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Posted: 17th Oct 2009 01:14
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Not even using memblocks and pointers

ohwel

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Rudolpho
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Posted: 17th Oct 2009 11:34 Edited at: 17th Oct 2009 11:36
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Well, of course you can use the memory commands to "simulate" it (it's the real deal, of course, but the syntax will be more messy, hence the quotation marks).
I'd really reccommend IanM's memory plugin, as it allows for peeking / poking other types than longwords as well.
You can't just get a reference to a variable's memory location though; you'll have to use raw pointers, which is obviously a downside.



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Posted: 17th Oct 2009 15:30
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What you should do in these situations is this:



That way you can effectively return multiple values (just store the values in global variables in C++, which can then be accessed by the GetMousePosX/Y commands)


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Rudolpho
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Didn't see it was about a plugin
Then Diggsey's approach is the way to go; look at any DBP plugin and you'll find that that's how they do it.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2009 15:47
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You can pass a pointer from DBP to a plugin. But this is very inefficient because of the process of allocating and deallocating memory every time.

The best solution is to just use two functions.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2009 15:51
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Cheers for your replys,

Unfotunatlly I only have the dll and not the source code

ohwel lol

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Ah, but then I'm fairly sure that the memory pointers will work.
Just make a memory area of 4 bytes (for a single integer) and pass the pointer to the function. This would most likely put the return value in your created memory area.

Something like this:


Again, for anything but longwords, I'd reccommend using IanM's extended memory handling library.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2009 19:06
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Thanks Rudolpho,

From looking at your code i've managed to get it to work

Thankyou everyone

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