[Win32utils-devel] Making win32-api better?

[Daniel Berger]

Heesob Park wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2009/4/30 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> During a conversation with 'flexo' on IRC (not sure of his real name), he
>> complained that win32-api was unstable. He wrote his own interface and
>> maintains that it is very stable and works better with multi-threaded apps.
>>
>> Please take a look and tell me what you think (below the C code is the Ruby
>> interface):
>>
> <snip code>
> 
> Great work indeed.
> 
> The code seems to consist of the intensive use of inline assembly and
> thread manipulations.
> I guess it will not work for ruby 1.9.x 64bit version.

I didn't think x64 Windows was supported anyway. Has that changed?

> And it has some superfluous overheads in thread handling and sleeping delay.

The author says that it was a bit of a hack. He says one of the problems 
is that there's a problem with that code - w32thunk.rb syncs with native 
by those sleep 0.02 busy waiting loops and it therefore can't dispatch 
more than 100 (in reality even less) callbacks into ruby per second.

> 
> Anyway, I expect it will work on ruby 1.8.6 in most cases.
> But, here are some issue.
> 
> W32Thunk.call('user32','MessageBeep',1,-1) failed with the message
> ./w32thunk.rb:146:in `_start_call': strtoul("-1", ...) failed (fatal)
>         from ./w32thunk.rb:146:in `call'
> 
> This callback test blocks on GetWindowTextA calling.
> call = W32Thunk.callback {|handle,param|
> 	buf = 0.chr * 200
> 	W32Thunk.call('user32','GetWindowTextA',1,handle,buf,200)
> 	buf.index(param).nil? ? 1 : 0
> }
> W32Thunk.call('user32','EnumWindows',1,call,'UEDIT32')

Ok, so there are some issues. Is there anything we can borrow?

Regards,

Dan