On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 7:02 AM Dan Brown via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi I'm stuck trying to find examples of passing lcs strings to a C function > via pointer and it's driving me mad! I can retrieve char * pointers from C > functions, convert to string and pass back to lcs but haven't come across > any easy to grok examples of sending data to C. Any guidance would be > appreciated I've used MCStringConvertToBytes to convert strings to a value you can pass in as const char*. I have a hunspell example you can reference. Here is a link to the Hunspell_spell definition: https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/blob/8a2fdfe5a6bb1cbafc04b0c8486abcefd17ad903/src/hunspell/hunspell.h#L69 ``` LIBHUNSPELL_DLL_EXPORTED int Hunspell_spell(Hunhandle* pHunspell, const char*); ``` Here is a link to the LCB code that passes a UTF8 string to Hunspell_spell: https://github.com/trevordevore/lc-hunspell/blob/master/hunspell.lcb#L150 Here is a link to the MCStringConvertToBytes definition in the LCB file: https://github.com/trevordevore/lc-hunspell/blob/master/hunspell.lcb#L19 -- Trevor DeVore ScreenSteps www.screensteps.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
