From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T04:40:20+09:00
Subject: [Win32API] Need help with PathCreateFromUrl

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.2
Windows XP

The following script dies a horrible death.  I've tried different ways
of padding the url and buffer, but nothing has worked.  Do I have the
method signature wrong?

# test.rb
require "Win32API"

MAX_PATH = 255
PathCreateFromUrl =
   Win32API.new("shlwapi", "PathCreateFromUrl", "PPLL", "L")

buf = 0.chr * MAX_PATH
url = "file:///C:/foo" + 0.chr # I tried other ways of padding this
len = buf.length

p PathCreateFromUrl.call(url, buf, len, 0) # kaboom!
p buf

Regards,

Dan