ExternalLibrary and lots of arguments

[Brian Rice]

This patch is applied in CVS now. Thanks!

On Nov 11, 2004, at 9:07 PM, 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:
>
> 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 );
>
> 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.
> - --
> Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com
>
> [1] To be able to call this beast:
> Window XCreateWindow ( Display *display , Window parent , int x , int 
> y ,
> unsigned int width , unsigned int height , unsigned int border_width , 
> int
> depth , unsigned int class , Visual *visual , unsigned long valuemask ,
> XSetWindowAttributes *attributes );
> when the time comes.
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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
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