Re: function in DLL

From:
"Abdo Haji-Ali" <ahali@inframez.org_use_com_instead>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:58:43 +0200
Message-ID:
<un9jTsY5GHA.3836@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
"--== Alain ==--" <nospam@noemail.com> wrote in message
news:#ixSqhY5GHA.3736@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) LPTSTR GetString(HMODULE hwnd_DLL, int
Index);

extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) LPTSTR GetString(HMODULE hwnd_DLL, int
Index)
{
static TCHAR *strRes;
int iError;
TCHAR re[2048] = {'\0'};
strRes=&re[0];


What the point of this line? Saving the address of the string as static
doesn't mean that the string itself won't get freed when you return from the
function. You'll have to make the whole array static.
static TCHAR re[2048] = {'\0'};

iError = ::LoadString(hwnd_DLL,Index, re, sizeof(re)/sizeof(re[0]));
return(strRes);


return re; // No need for strRes at all

}

i also tried to pass it by reference, but nothing has changed.

Can you show us the code which you think has failed?

i tried also to turn the function to send back a string (STL), but
nothing works also...

Same as before...

BTW, Alex has suggested a way to load string from a DLL string table without
the need to export a function from the DLL itself . You can always use the
Win32 equivalent of the MFC functions, like:

HINSTANCE hResInst = ::AfxLoadLibrary(dllName);

You can use LoadLibrary instead of AfxLoadLibray()

CString strMessage;
strMessage.LoadString(hResInst, IDS_MESSAGE);

You can use Win32's LoadString() (Not yours)...

::AfxFreeLibrary(hResInst);

This one is just like FreeLibrary()

--
Abdo Haji-Ali
Programmer
In|Framez

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