From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-05-22T01:12:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32API question - PathAppend (in/out variable issue)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Leonard [mailto:pleonard23@beadmix.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 5:20 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML; djberg96@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Win32API question - PathAppend (in/out variable issue)
> 
> 
>  Daniel - 
> 
> This works:
> 
> require "Win32API"
> 
> MAX_PATH = 256
> 
> inbuf = Array.new.fill(0.chr,0..MAX_PATH-1).join
> 
> PathAppend = Win32API.new("shlwapi","PathAppend","PP","L")
> 
> path = 'C:\foo'
> 
> inbuf[0..path.length-1] = path
> 
> PathAppend.call(inbuf, 'bar'+ 0.chr)
> 
> puts inbuf.strip!
> 
> Returns:
> C:\foo\bar

That works great, thanks.

I did replace "Array.new.fill(0.chr,0..MAX_PATH-1).join" with just
"0.chr * MAX_PATH", though.

Regards,

Dan