ExternalLibrary and lots of arguments

[Todd Fleming]

Pupeno,

I'm curious about something. Win32 requires callbacks in order to make 
useful windows. Does X11 need callbacks? If so, how are you getting 
around this?

Todd


Pupeno wrote:

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>Hello Slaters,
>I am using ExternalLibrary to build a wrapper for XLib (just what I need to 
>get Cairo going). There's a function with nine arguments that I need to call:
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>Window XCreateSimpleWindow ( Display *display , Window parent , int x , int 
>y , unsigned int width , unsigned int height , unsigned int border_width , 
>unsigned long border , unsigned long background ); 
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>and it was not behaving like expected. It alwasy returned Nil, Nil, Nil, so I 
>started checking out EXternalLibrary's C side and I've found it couldn't pass 
>more than 5 parameters. So, for my needs I extended to 12 [1] parameters and 
>the patch is attached.
>Now, instead of getting Nil, I get a segfault... progress... :) I'm rebuilding 
>the vm and the image in case that changes something, and if not... well... 
>probably it is time to use gdb and see what's going on.
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>Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com
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