From: Edward Middleton <emiddleton@...>
Date: 2009-12-29T19:18:32+09:00
Subject: Re: au3 0.1.1 released

Marvin G端lker wrote:
> ... That isn't as complicated as it sounds, but there are some problems I 
> cannot get around. First, how to obtain the size of the INPUT structure? 
> There's no sizeof keyword in Ruby...
pack converts and ruby array to a ruby string which in ruby 1.8 is a
sequence of bytes.  The size of the string will give you the size in
bytes of the struct.

> Second, how to transform a unicode char (Windows usually uses UTF-16LE I've found out when working on au3) into a WORD? As far as I know, this is an integer value, but a unicode char like 辰 consists of more than one byte?
You use MultiByteToWideChar[1] and WideCharToMultiByte[2], the msdn
unicode[3] page has more details on this.  I think I mostly input
everything in UTF-8 then converted to UTF-16LE because there were issues
with BOM using UTF-16LE

> Third, as said, how to pack a struct into a struct, in this example: How to pack the KEYBDINPUT into the INPUT struct? And last but not least, how to build up a C array in Ruby?
>   

The easiest way is to flatten struct into one. i.e.

INPUT {

WORD type

WORD wVk
WORD wScan
DWORD dwFlags
DWORD Time
ULONG_PTR

}

I don't have a windows machine to test this on but I believe this is
mostly correct.

Edward

1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd319072%28VS.85%29.aspx
2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374130%28VS.85%29.aspx
3. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374081%28VS.85%29.aspx