Thanks Erich! I had no idea Mark was working on this so this is good
news. Because of the lack of 64-bit support in Rexx GCI, I really
wanted to try to do a DLL that would implement the GCI functions I had
written. That DLL could then be compiled for 64- as well as 32-bit
versions of ooRexx. But it appears that what Mark has implemented is so
much more than the small piece of the Windows console API that I had
needed to do colored text/background. The bad news is that there is no
documentation :-( ! So it will take a lot of study of the code and its
comments in order to figure it out and, eventually, write the docs. I
can't promise that I can do that for 5.0.0 but I'll start looking at it
as I have time. At least I have some familiarity with the Windows API
which is probably a (small) step ahead of anyone else that might tackle
this. But there will surely be questions when I look at the *ix side as
I have no expertise there.
On 7/8/2015 9:59 AM, Erich Steinböck wrote:
I used it to do colored text in a console window
Gil, there's Mark's new ooConsole package in the incubator
(https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/HEAD/tree/incubator/ooConsole/).
It might be a candidate for inclusion in 5.0
/"ooConsole is an ooRexx extension package that provides access to the
Windows console API."/
I can't tell whether it's ready for release, as the binaries have yet
to be built. There also seems to be no documentation yet. If you're
interested, you might want to check it out and help bring it into 5.0
Erich
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Gil Barmwater <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Michael,
Perhaps you are referring to the Rexx GCI package which can be
obtained
from http://sourceforge.net/projects/rexx-gci/ . The GCI package
is used to
access the Windows APIs. I used it to do colored text in a
console window.
It is, however, only available for 32 bit (oo)Rexx . HTH,
On 7/8/2015 5:34 AM, Michael Lueck wrote:
> Greetings again,
>
> Michael Lueck wrote:
>> I suspect this is what the qualify method of the Stream class
is doing:
>>
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364963%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>>
>> "GetFullPathName does not convert the specified file name,
lpFileName. If the specified file name exists, you can use
GetLongPathName or GetShortPathName to convert to long or short
path names,
>> respectively."
>
> I recalled some Rexx project with aim to bridge over to the vast
majority of DLL API's without having to special develop/compile an
interface in a Rexx DLL to said DLL API. Perhaps that would be a
> more convenient way to obtain access to GetLongPathName and
GetShortPathName Windows API's.
>
> Can someone recall what project it is that came to mind?
>
> I am thankful,
>
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