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I have a DLL which I need to include in a program. I have got it all loading and opening properly but I am struggling with one of the commands I need to set up.

In the manual that came with the DLL is has visual studio examples and the one im struggling with at the moment is this one


BP_StartDLL = (bp_bool_hwnd) GetProcAddress (DllModule, "BP_StartDLL");


and it says to call it you need to do the following

RetVal = (*BP_StartDLL)(myhWnd);

Now I thought I had found out how to do it from the help and set things up like this

DECLARE_ALIAS(BPStartDLL, "gamesocket.dll", "BP_StartDLL", (bool hwnd), int);

in the part where I load the DLL and declare all the functions

and

FUNCTION StartDLL:
INLINE
if(BPStartDLL)
return BPStartDLL(GLBASIC_HWND);
else
return 255;
ENDINLINE
ENDFUNCTION

In the actual StartDLL function but it is refusing to talk to the other program it is supposed to. I think it is getting the wrong HWND value.

Anyone got any ideas where I am going wrong?

Thanks
Gary

Solved it, Will post my solution incase anyone else needs to do something similar

I used

DECLARE_ALIAS(BPStartDLL, "gamesocket.dll", "BP_StartDLL", (void*), int);

to set up the call and

FUNCTION StartDLL:
INLINE

if(BPStartDLL)
return BPStartDLL(GLBASIC_HWND());
else
return 255;
ENDINLINE
ENDFUNCTION

to send the HWND value

Why void* and not HWND* ?

Didn't know HWND* existed that's why :)