VB Strings

[reniery]

I've been working in integrating my vb6 app with a scanner and have come upon a small problem. I´m using the dll´s provided by the scanner manufacturer.

Ok what i'm trying to do is pass a string variable to a dll.

This is from the sdk documentation

To set a string, use a pointer to the string.
To get the string, allocate 256 bytes of memory and
set a pointer to that memory. The string is copied
to the memory.


This I think is my problem

strTemp="test"
 ScannerPrint STRING, StrPtr(strTemp)

Using this the only thing passed to the dll is the first letter in this case ´t´.
The reason is cause strptr only returns the adress in memory of the first char in the string so how do I pass the whole string.

Help please

[mbshinde78]

Have you tried using &strTemp instead?

[reniery]

No I haven't tried &strtemp, but I'll try it right now.

Btw I found the solution for my problem, I used a c++ dll and then I just call it from my vb app. But is there a way to do this in vb6 directly, this are the functions I did in my c++ dll

BSTR __stdcall testFunction(BSTR stringVar)
{
             LPSTR buffer;
	buffer = (LPSTR)stringVar;
	
	if (OK!=SETDRIVERPAR(290,(LPARAM)buffer)){
	::MessageBox(NULL,"Error asignando ","Error",0);
	}
	else{
	
	}

	//buffer = _strrev(buffer);
	return(SysAllocString(stringVar));

}

BSTR __stdcall testGetSerial()
{
	unsigned char bufSerial[255];
	if (OK!=GETDRIVERPAR(290,(LPVOID)bufSerial)){
             ::MessageBox(NULL,"Error retrieving Serial ","Error",0);
	} 
	else{
	}

	return (BSTR)bufSerial;

}

My problem is these 2 lines, in both I need a pointer to a string and I'm having trouble doing it in vb6. Any suggestions or using my dll is the only solution.

GETDRIVERPAR(290,(LPVOID)bufSerial))
SETDRIVERPAR(290,(LPARAM)buffer))

[sallreen]

A string is a data type consisting of a series of characters. While we treat it as a simple data parameter, it is in reality closely related to an array. In fact, some other languages (such as C++), force the developer to manipulate strings as if they were arrays. In VB, strings are treated as a variable, the same way an integer, for example, would be treated.
----------------------
Sally
drivenwide

[reniery]

Yeah but there is a difference in structure in how strings are handle in vb and in c++. For example C strings are arrays of characters terminated by a NULL character. Visual Basic strings differ in that the length of the string preceded the characters in the string. C++ BSTR is the same as the String in VB so im using that in my c++ dll.

But actually my problem is with using pointers in vb6, what I need to do is a pointer to a string but until now I have only been able to point to the first char of the string using strptr() . In c++ I did it using the code a previously posted but haven´t found a vb6 equivalent yet.

So is it posible

On a side note: VB I despise you

[Xav]

Thank you for telling me that, which I could also have found in two seconds on Wikipedia. Reporting.

[reniery]

Found what exactly ? ......

[marwex89]

I believe it was a post which were deleted. Spam. A lot of it now recently.

[Xav]

Yes, it was spam, now deleted because I reported him to Jordan.

[reniery]

ok... cause I thought you were refering to something I posted....