[fpc-pascal]Win32 API Call

[Jim Wilson]

At 12:00 AM 6/22/2004, you wrote:
>You made a few mistakes translating GetCurrentHwProfile to Pascal:

Figures it was me...  :-)

>1. parameter to GetCurrentHwProfile should be TProfileInfo, not 
>PProfileInfo (using "var" parameter already forces passing HWProfile by 
>reference)

That's awfully odd, because according to the Win32 API reference the 
function GetCurrentHwProfile requires a pointer, which pProfileInfo is 
(tProfileInfo is just the type definition). Guess I have some more reading 
to do.

>2. result of GetCurrentHwProfile should be LongBool (4 bytes), not boolean 
>(1 byte)

But in your code it's still a boolean, but it now works (it returns TRUE). 
And, when I change "Results : longbool" in the var declaration I get "Hint: 
Type size mismatch, possible loss of data / range check error" at the 
"writeln ('Results: ',Results,' - ',GetLastError);" statement (and with 
either declaration the function returns TRUE, so I assume it's working with 
both). Does that mean longbool isn't really necessary?

Guess I have even more reading to do then I thought!

>3. most important, TProfileInfo.GUID and TProfileInfo.Name are not 
>AnsiStrings. They are just char arrays, see attached code for correct 
>declararions.

Another oddity, because the API reference says they're null-terminated 
strings. So shouldn't an ansistring work for that too?

And where did you get those length numbers from, the ones you used for 
those const definitions? I can't seem to find them anywhere, and it appears 
that in order to get the info to display properly you need to assign 
specific lengths to those char strings.

>4. This is not important for FPC 1.0.x, but for newer FPC remember to 
>declare WinAPI functions as "stdcall" (FPC 1.0.x just used "stdcall" by 
>default).

I'll make note of that.

>I'm attaching corrected version of your program.

Thanks for that -- you were a big help!

Regards,
Jim Wilson