[Gambas-user] Working with .so library

[Admin]

So, I guess that's a no. It's kinda sad, but ok, minor issue.

25.06.2019 15:21, Admin пишет:
> Ok, this question I have for a very long time now:
> Sometimes I need to recieve a string variable from a library.
> Usually it asks me to provide a pointer to a string where it would 
> store it's output.
> Problem is output is usually in WCHAR_T, while the string is always in 
> UTF-8.
> When I provide my strings to a library - it's not a problem, i just 
> use Conv(MyString, "UTF-8", "WCHAR_T") and it's all ok.
> But when I recieve a string from a library I rearly even know the 
> lenght of the output I expect. But even if I do, that would be a 
> lenght of a WCAHR_T string, and the size of UTF string would be 
> defferent.
> So in most cases if I recieve a string like this:
>
> libfptr_get_param_str(fptr, LIBFPTR_PARAM_MODEL_NAME, 
> VarPtr(KKMmodel), stringsize)
>
> and then try to
>
> message(Conv(KKMmodel, "WCHAR_T", "UTF-8"))
>
> I will get a "bad string conversion".
>
> And I think it's totally fair, because, ok, I know that the string 
> will be 18 chars long, but if I make KKMmodel declared as String and 
> 18 chars long - is it even relevant?  It would be 18 UTF8 chars long, 
> which has nothing to do with the lenght of WCHAR_T string.
>
> So, is there a way to correctly recieve WCHAR_T strings through 
> pointers in Gambas?
>
> 25.06.2019 15:07, Tobias Boege пишет:
>> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, David Silverwood via User wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 09:54:07 AM GMT+2, Benoît Minisini 
>>>> <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>     Le 25/06/2019 à 05:56, Admin a écrit :
>>>>> Ok, answering my own question, it's easier then I thought. Gambas
>>>>> actually allows the same enum declaration as C does, I mean I can use
>>>>> multiple strings despite it's never mentioned in documentation. So 
>>>>> it's
>>>>> basically .h file copy-paste process, nothing more.
>>>>>
>>>> What is not mentioned in http://gambaswiki.org/lang/enumdecl ?
>>>   i get a 404 error when trying to access that page?
>> There's always a /wiki after the .org, which Benoît forgot.
>>
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