Re: unsupported function problem - WinCE

From:
"Chris Becke" <chris.becke@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Date:
Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:15:12 +0200
Message-ID:
<1223028534.890684@vasbyt.isdsl.net>
First, this belongs more in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

Next, the function is declared:

  BOOL WINAPI SHGetAutoRunPath(LPTSTR pAutoRunPath);

Which is a normal C declration. So, to make life easy, first we make a =
function pointer typedef. How to do that is more c/c++ than win32. And =
we declare an instance of that new type and initialize it.

  typedef BOOL(WINAPI* PFNSHGETAUTORUNPATH)(LPTSTR);
  PFNSHGETAUTORUNPATH pSHGetAutoRunPath = NULL;

Now, the win32 part. We load the function pointer from the relevent =
platform dll.

  HMODULE hAygShell = LoadLibrary(TEXT("aygshell.dll"));
  pSHGetAutoRunPath = (PFNSHGETAUTORUNPATH) =
GetProcAddress(hAygShell,"SHGetAutoRunPathW");

Now, you can test pSHGetAutoRunPath to see if it was loaded or not =
before calling it with code similar to this:-

  TCHAR szBuf[MAX_PATH]={0};
  if(pSHGetAutoRunPath) {
    pSHGetAutoRunPath(szBuf);
  } else {
    // fake it on platforms that dont have it.
  }

One last note: "SHGetAutoRunPathW" has the W on the end because most =
win32 functions exist in W or A suffix versions which are used when you =
build for Unicode or Ansi support. Because the platform in question =
might be unicode only, the W might not be necessary. If the =
GetProcAddress call fails on the platform it should succeed on, try the =
other variations.

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