Opening a document from Studio 8 in Windows

[Mike Matthews]

So are you saying no code change, just an update to v8.01 and all is groovy?

Mike

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> On 20 Jun 2016, at 18:14, Scotte Meredith <spomacguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for that, Phil.
> 
> I had been looking in the PDF and completely missed the data types.
> 
> Turns out, I was calling it correctly, but I found a reference to Call DLL crashing in Studio 8.0. Replaced with Studio 8.01 and all now seems to work.
> 
> 
>> On Jun 18, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Phil (OmnisList) <phil at pgpotter.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Scotte,
>> 
>> just F1 on the register dll command... and all should be revealed...
>> 
>> ie: Handle = 32 bit int, 16 gives current user desktop:
>> 
>> Register DLL ('shfolder.dll','SHGetFolderPathW','NJJJJC') Returns ErrCode
>> Call DLL ('shfolder.dll','SHGetFolderPathW',Handle,16,'#NULL#',0,lvPath) Returns ErrCode
>> 
>> ie lcProgram = 'Excel' will run Excel...
>> 
>> Register DLL ('Shell32.dll','ShellExecuteW','JJCCCCJ') Returns lbStatus
>> Call DLL ('Shell32.dll','ShellExecuteW',0,"#NULL#",lcProgram,lcParams,"#NULL#",1) Returns lbStatus
>> 
>> regards
>> Phil Potter
>> Based in Chester in the UK.
>> 
>>> On 17/06/2016 19:08, Scotte Meredith wrote:
>>> I’m new to using Register DLL & Call DLL.
>>> 
>>> Where do I find documentation on what all the parameters like the ‘JJCCCCJ’ come from and how I know which to use?
>>> 
>>> I’m using Studio 8 (64 bit) on Windows 8 and getting crashes when calling either shell32 or Kernel32 to open an external document or get a short pathname. It worked prior to Studio 8. I have put in a test for isunicode() and am using ShellExecuteW instead of ShellExecuteA as in 32 bit.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Scotte Meredith
>>> SpoMacGuy at gmail.com
>>> 
>>> 
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