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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>>> This will always return 4 I think
(because a generic "var"</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>>>
parameter is simply a pointer to whatever data you are passing</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2>>> to the routine).<BR><BR>>> You will
have to add an explicit size parameter to your routine</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2>>> to solve this.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2>>Unfortunately, that won't work, primarily because
the passed var could >be of any size. I'm hoping there's some way to get the
actual size of >the var itself.</FONT> <BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if you finish the array with a null value you can
know when is finish and so the length of it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but as jonas said it'll be better to pass an
argument to the function with the length of the buffer:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Procedure Win32Write (Col,Row : byte; "length
:dword;" var SourceData);</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>bye</FONT></DIV>
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