ShellExecute
Sergey Gromov
snake.scaly at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 12:48:44 PST 2008
Serj Makaroff <serj-makaroff at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Thank you! It's work.
>
> But why ShellExecute() doesn't work and what is the difference between
> ShellExecuteA() and ShellExecuteW()?
There is no such Windows function like ShellExecute(). There is
ShellExecuteA() which accepts ASCII (CHAR/CHAR*) parameters and returns
compatible results, and ShellExecuteW() which accepts Unicode
(WCHAR/WCHAR*) parameters and returns accordingly. The ShellExecute is
a macro defined in windows.h for C preprocessor, there is no such symbol
in the OS. This macro expands to either of the former functions
depending on whether the _UNICODE macro is defined. This holds true for
most of Windows API.
This reminds me: why all the standard D headers declare Windows
functions as
extern(Windows) export void SomeApiFunction() ?
What's the use for export attribute ?
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SnakE
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