digitalmars.D.learn - Using Win32 console functions in D

Hasan Aljudy (81/81) May 25 2005 I'm trying to use the function WriteConsoleOutput

Regan Heath (36/119) May 26 2005 Change "WriteConsoleOutput" to "WriteConsoleOutputA" or

Hasan Aljudy (4/45) May 26 2005 Ah! right!

David L. Davis (11/21) May 26 2005 You can find a D converted version of wincon.h, renamed to wincon.d, off...

Hasan Aljudy (4/35) May 26 2005 That's nice. I think this should become part of phobos, after all, it IS...

Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:

I'm trying to use the function WriteConsoleOutput
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/writeconsoleoutput.asp

I've read the "D for Win32" page
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/windows.html
and looked at
dmd\src\phobos\std\c\windows\windows.d

Then I wrote some code so that hopefully the compiler recognizes that
function as an external windows function.

extern(Windows)
{
	union _Char
	{
		WCHAR UnicodeChar;
		CHAR AsciiChar;
	}
	struct CHAR_INFO
	{
		_Char Char;
		WORD Attributes;
	}
	
	struct COORD
	{
		SHORT X;
		SHORT Y;
	}
	
	struct SMALL_RECT
	{
		SHORT Left;
		SHORT Top;
		SHORT Right;
		SHORT Bottom;
	}
	
	alias SMALL_RECT* PSMALL_RECT;
	
	export BOOL WriteConsoleOutput(
	  HANDLE hConsoleOutput,
	  CHAR_INFO* lpBuffer,
	  COORD dwBufferSize,
	  COORD dwBufferCoord,
	  PSMALL_RECT lpWriteRegion
	);		
}


so far it compiles with no error, but when I test it and call the 
function I get some linking error


E:\dmd\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe
test,d-test.exe,,user32+kernel32,test.def/noi;

OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

test.obj(test)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _WriteConsoleOutput 20

--- errorlevel 1
in32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

test.obj(test)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _WriteConsoleOutput 20


my test code looks like this:


void main()
{
	COORD zero;
	zero.X = 0;
	zero.Y = 0;
	
	WriteConsoleOutput(
	cast(HANDLE)0,
	cast(CHAR_INFO*)0,
	zero,
	zero,
	cast(PSMALL_RECT)0);
}


Of course I am a n00b in these things ..
Is it somethign in D, the phobos library, or my code that is causing this?
Is it possible to overcome this error and be able to use WriteConsoleOutput?

May 25 2005

"Regan Heath" <regan netwin.co.nz> writes:

Change "WriteConsoleOutput" to "WriteConsoleOutputA" or  
"WriteConsoleOutputW".

The former is the ASCII/ANSI version the latter the WIDE/UNICODE version.

If you use the former, you can typically get away with passing a char[]  
argument to it.
If you use the latter, you should pass a wchar[] to it.

You'll find the C function definitions you're actually linking to in  
dm\include\win32\wincon.h:

WINBASEAPI
BOOL
WINAPI
WriteConsoleOutputA(
     HANDLE hConsoleOutput,
     CONST CHAR_INFO *lpBuffer,
     COORD dwBufferSize,
     COORD dwBufferCoord,
     PSMALL_RECT lpWriteRegion
     );
WINBASEAPI
BOOL
WINAPI
WriteConsoleOutputW(
     HANDLE hConsoleOutput,
     CONST CHAR_INFO *lpBuffer,
     COORD dwBufferSize,
     COORD dwBufferCoord,
     PSMALL_RECT lpWriteRegion
     );
#ifdef UNICODE
#define WriteConsoleOutput  WriteConsoleOutputW
#else
#define WriteConsoleOutput  WriteConsoleOutputA
#endif // !UNICODE

Regan


On Thu, 26 May 2005 00:43:21 -0600, Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com>  
wrote:
 I'm trying to use the function WriteConsoleOutput
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/writeconsoleoutput.asp

 I've read the "D for Win32" page
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/windows.html
 and looked at
 dmd\src\phobos\std\c\windows\windows.d

 Then I wrote some code so that hopefully the compiler recognizes that
 function as an external windows function.

 extern(Windows)
 {
 	union _Char
 	{
 		WCHAR UnicodeChar;
 		CHAR AsciiChar;
 	}
 	struct CHAR_INFO
 	{
 		_Char Char;
 		WORD Attributes;
 	}
 	
 	struct COORD
 	{
 		SHORT X;
 		SHORT Y;
 	}
 	
 	struct SMALL_RECT
 	{
 		SHORT Left;
 		SHORT Top;
 		SHORT Right;
 		SHORT Bottom;
 	}
 	
 	alias SMALL_RECT* PSMALL_RECT;
 	
 	export BOOL WriteConsoleOutput(
 	  HANDLE hConsoleOutput,
 	  CHAR_INFO* lpBuffer,
 	  COORD dwBufferSize,
 	  COORD dwBufferCoord,
 	  PSMALL_RECT lpWriteRegion
 	);		
 }


 so far it compiles with no error, but when I test it and call the  
 function I get some linking error


 E:\dmd\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe
 test,d-test.exe,,user32+kernel32,test.def/noi;

 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 test.obj(test)
   Error 42: Symbol Undefined _WriteConsoleOutput 20

 --- errorlevel 1
 in32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 test.obj(test)
   Error 42: Symbol Undefined _WriteConsoleOutput 20


 my test code looks like this:


 void main()
 {
 	COORD zero;
 	zero.X = 0;
 	zero.Y = 0;
 	
 	WriteConsoleOutput(
 	cast(HANDLE)0,
 	cast(CHAR_INFO*)0,
 	zero,
 	zero,
 	cast(PSMALL_RECT)0);
 }


 Of course I am a n00b in these things ..
 Is it somethign in D, the phobos library, or my code that is causing  
 this?
 Is it possible to overcome this error and be able to use  
 WriteConsoleOutput?

May 26 2005

Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:

Regan Heath wrote:
 Change "WriteConsoleOutput" to "WriteConsoleOutputA" or  
 "WriteConsoleOutputW".
 
 The former is the ASCII/ANSI version the latter the WIDE/UNICODE version.
 
 If you use the former, you can typically get away with passing a char[]  
 argument to it.
 If you use the latter, you should pass a wchar[] to it.
 
 You'll find the C function definitions you're actually linking to in  
 dm\include\win32\wincon.h:
 
 WINBASEAPI
 BOOL
 WINAPI
 WriteConsoleOutputA(
     HANDLE hConsoleOutput,
     CONST CHAR_INFO *lpBuffer,
     COORD dwBufferSize,
     COORD dwBufferCoord,
     PSMALL_RECT lpWriteRegion
     );
 WINBASEAPI
 BOOL
 WINAPI
 WriteConsoleOutputW(
     HANDLE hConsoleOutput,
     CONST CHAR_INFO *lpBuffer,
     COORD dwBufferSize,
     COORD dwBufferCoord,
     PSMALL_RECT lpWriteRegion
     );
 #ifdef UNICODE
 #define WriteConsoleOutput  WriteConsoleOutputW
 #else
 #define WriteConsoleOutput  WriteConsoleOutputA
 #endif // !UNICODE
 
 Regan
 
 

Ah! right!
lol, mybad .. WriteConsoleOutput is just an alias! no such function 
really exists.

May 26 2005

David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> writes:

In article <d73r5n$1nst$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Hasan Aljudy says...
I'm trying to use the function WriteConsoleOutput
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/writeconsoleoutput.asp

I've read the "D for Win32" page
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/windows.html
and looked at
dmd\src\phobos\std\c\windows\windows.d

...

Of course I am a n00b in these things ..
Is it somethign in D, the phobos library, or my code that is causing this?
Is it possible to overcome this error and be able to use WriteConsoleOutput?

You can find a D converted version of wincon.h, renamed to wincon.d, off of my
site...there's also two very useful examples included in the download. Just look
for the "Fun with the NT / XP Console in D", which is the bottom entry of the
following web page.

http://spottedtiger.tripod.com/D_Language/D_Hub_Adv_Tutor_XP.html

David L.

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May 26 2005

Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:

David L. Davis wrote:
 In article <d73r5n$1nst$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Hasan Aljudy says...
 
I'm trying to use the function WriteConsoleOutput
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/writeconsoleoutput.asp

I've read the "D for Win32" page
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/windows.html
and looked at
dmd\src\phobos\std\c\windows\windows.d

...

Of course I am a n00b in these things ..
Is it somethign in D, the phobos library, or my code that is causing this?
Is it possible to overcome this error and be able to use WriteConsoleOutput?

 
 
 You can find a D converted version of wincon.h, renamed to wincon.d, off of my
 site...there's also two very useful examples included in the download. Just
look
 for the "Fun with the NT / XP Console in D", which is the bottom entry of the
 following web page.
 
 http://spottedtiger.tripod.com/D_Language/D_Hub_Adv_Tutor_XP.html
 
 David L.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 "Dare to reach for the Stars...Dare to Dream, Build, and Achieve!"
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 MKoD: http://spottedtiger.tripod.com/D_Language/D_Main_XP.html

That's nice. I think this should become part of phobos, after all, it IS 
defined in <windows.h>, so why isn't it in std.c.windows.windows?

walter? Do you read this?

May 26 2005

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