From: Su Zhang <zhangsu@...>
Date: 2011-02-02T07:12:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Call SendMessage WinAPI to get item_rect for tree control

You need to pass a buffer to SendMessage to store the rectangle's 
information. You can pass the API a Ruby string, and Win32API will pass 
the actual address of the string to the API. The API then mutate the 
string content so that it stores the rectangle information. The string 
itself is like a primitive structure containing different fields, and 
later on you can use String#unpack to retrieve every single field.

Suppose you already have the handle to the controls and the message's 
internal integer representation defined:

buf = [handle_tree_item, 0, 0, 0].pack('l*')
send_message = Win32API.new('user32', 'SendMessage' , ['L' , 'L' , 'L' , 
'P' ], 'L')
sned_message.call(handle_tree_view, TVM_GETITEMRECT, 0, buf)
rect = buf.unpack('l*')

rect[0] # left
rect[1] # top
rect[2] # right
rect[3] # bottom

> And I don't know what is *(HTREEITEM *)prc = (hitem) and how to do this
> on Ruby.

This is basically a dereference operation on the pointer prc, which 
cannot be done in Ruby in the language level. You can use RtlMoveMemory 
supplied by kernel32.dll to achieve the same thing in an ugly manner.

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