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B1rD
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Hello,

I'm currently trying to make a menu system, just like in windows with the windows DLL files.

There's a big issue, i dont know what functions the DLL files have.

ex,:

LOAD DLL "SHELL32.DLL",1
NULL = CALL DLL 1,"????????"

Is there a way to see the functions of a dll file ?
I hope you guys understand this post, i'm cant explain it in other words...


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B1rD
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anyone ???
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Posted: 29th Apr 2004 00:33 Edited at: 29th Apr 2004 00:36
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Quote: "Is there a way to see the functions of a dll file ?"

Yes, you'd need to read the export table of the DLL (something I wouldn't want to do in DB, though). But there's no way (except for disassembling or analysing the binary code) to find out what parameters the function needs or what calling convention it uses, unless the function name is decorated.

EDIT:
OK I've just re-read your question... forget the above paragraph.
You want to make a windows menu with the windows library, correct?

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B1rD
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Yes thats correct
just such as a menubar with "file edit view", etc...
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stann65
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can anyone post a link were i can find all the names of all the windows dll files and the functions that can be used with them.

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Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winprog/winprog/functions_in_alphabetical_order.asp

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thanks for the links. would i be right in the following code then:

[the function it gives is ScrollWindow and the dll is comctl32.dll]

call dll "comctl132.dll" 1, ScrollWindow

if not please can you correct it for me as an example or post up antoher one.

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ok i now have got:

load dll "cmtl32.dll",1
call dll 1,"EnableScrollBar",hWnd, [and some others]

ok and what it does is allow it run fine with line 1 but when line 2 is added it says it failed to execute dll why is this.(i know that the parameters are ok)

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That function is in user32.dll not cmtl32.dll.

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ok heres wot i now have;

load dll "user32.dll",1
print "h"
print "e"
print "l"
print "l"
print "o"
print "h"
print "e"
print "l"
print "l"
print "o"
print "h"
print "e"
print "l"
print "l"
print "o"
print "h"
print "e"
print "l"
print "l"
print "o"
print "h"
print "e"
print "l"
print "l"
print "o"
print "h"
print "e"
print "l"
print "l"
print "o"
do
call dll 1,"EnableScrollBar",hWmd,wSBflags,wArrows
loop


it runs without an error but my scrollbar is not showing at all what can i do to fix it. [the site i used for the function is http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/scrollbars/scrollbarreference/scrollbarfunctions/enablescrollbar.asp

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there are many things that can be wrong here...

The obvious:
parameters not set properly
you showed no code on where you obtained or set the values for
hWND and the others....

Not obvious:
are you running in windows mode, not exclusive?
You might also need to call

BOOL ShowScrollBar(
HWND hWnd,
int wBar,
BOOL bShow
);

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