From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-01-02T17:31:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32API question/suggestion

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As I sit here finally learning the Win32API module, rather than
> writing C extensions, I was wondering about something...
>
> There are many generic functions used in Win32 programming, such as
> GlobalAlloc(), GlobalFree(), etc.  Currently, it appears that I have
> to do this:
>
> GlobalAlloc = Win32API.new(...)
> GlobalAlloc.Call
> [...]

> Thoughts?  Opinions?  It can already do this and I missed the boat
> somewhere?
>

Moonwolf has drawn together much of this in:
http://www.moonwolf.com/ruby/archive/win32module_20001226b.tar.bz2  (537Kb)


If you can't extract bz2 files, try:
http://www.7-zip.com/
(There may be better ones)

copy contents of win32 dir to ---\lib\ruby\1.8\win32, then
  require 'win32/winbase'  ## loads Win32API itself
  GlobalAlloc.call(...)



daz