From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T12:50:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help with PathCreateFromUrl

vanek@acd.net wrote:
> This works for me:
>
> require "Win32API"
>
> MAX_PATH = 255
> PathCreateFromUrl =
>    Win32API.new("shlwapi", "PathCreateFromUrl", 'PPPL', "i")
>
> buf = 0.chr * MAX_PATH
>
> url = "file://localhost/c:/winzip.log"
>
> lpLen = " " * 4  # lpLen is a pointer to a LONG
>
> p PathCreateFromUrl.call(url, buf, lpLen, 0)
> p buf
>
> #config: Windows XP Pro SP2, ruby 1.8.2, cygwin

That worked great, thanks.

Dan