In addition to the answer of Gil, you can have a look at this script which
uses GCI to call GetLongPathName :
https://gist.github.com/jlfaucher/78b32211790b7a752290
It works with Regina 32 bits and ooRexx 32 bits.
It works also with ooRexx 64 bits, but you will need to build GCI 64 bits
from the sources of the version 1.1. The procedure is described at the end
of the script, there are 2 modifications to apply to the sources.
Not working with Regina 64 bits, but I think it will if the change for
GCI_STACK_ELEMENT is applied to gci_convert.win64.vc
Jean-Louis
2015-07-08 16:26 GMT+02:00 Gil Barmwater <[email protected]>:
> 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]>
> 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,
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Gil Barmwater
>>
>>
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