Problem in _WinAPI_EnumDisplayDevices

[murmansk 0]

When you launch the example in the help of _WinAPI_EnumDisplayDevices, it never ends.

The problem lies in the way that the WinAPI function informs that there are not more devices: in the MSDN documentation says that it will return 0, but the AutoIt function only checks for @error in the DllCall and not tests if the result of the call==0.

Added a new local variable "$retval" that holds the return value of DllCall, and if $retval==0 sets @error.

Now it works as described in the documentation, but probably will be better to modify the code and documentation to map the MSDN documentation, returning 0 when there are no more displaydevices.

Func _WinAPI_EnumDisplayDevices($sDevice, $iDevNum)
    Local $pName = 0,  $iFlags = 0, $aDevice[5], $retval

    If $sDevice <> "" Then
        Local $tName = DllStructCreate("wchar Text[" & Stringlen($sDevice) + 1 & "]")
        $pName = DllStructGetPtr($tName)
        DllStructSetData($tName, "Text", $sDevice)
    EndIf
    Local $tDevice = DllStructCreate($tagDISPLAY_DEVICE)
    Local $pDevice = DllStructGetPtr($tDevice)
    Local $iDevice = DllStructGetSize($tDevice)
    DllStructSetData($tDevice, "Size", $iDevice)
    $retval = DllCall("user32.dll", "bool", "EnumDisplayDevicesW", "ptr", $pName, "dword", $iDevNum, "ptr", $pDevice, "dword", 1)
    If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, 0)
    If ($retval[0]==0) Then Return SetError(1)

    Local $iN = DllStructGetData($tDevice, "Flags")
    If BitAND($iN, $__WINAPICONSTANT_DISPLAY_DEVICE_ATTACHED_TO_DESKTOP) <> 0 Then $iFlags = BitOR($iFlags, 1)
    If BitAND($iN, $__WINAPICONSTANT_DISPLAY_DEVICE_PRIMARY_DEVICE) <> 0 Then $iFlags = BitOR($iFlags, 2)
    If BitAND($iN, $__WINAPICONSTANT_DISPLAY_DEVICE_MIRRORING_DRIVER) <> 0 Then $iFlags = BitOR($iFlags, 4)
    If BitAND($iN, $__WINAPICONSTANT_DISPLAY_DEVICE_VGA_COMPATIBLE) <> 0 Then $iFlags = BitOR($iFlags, 8)
    If BitAND($iN, $__WINAPICONSTANT_DISPLAY_DEVICE_REMOVABLE) <> 0 Then $iFlags = BitOR($iFlags, 16)
    If BitAND($iN, $__WINAPICONSTANT_DISPLAY_DEVICE_MODESPRUNED) <> 0 Then $iFlags = BitOR($iFlags, 32)
    $aDevice[0] = True
    $aDevice[1] = DllStructGetData($tDevice, "Name")
    $aDevice[2] = DllStructGetData($tDevice, "String")
    $aDevice[3] = $iFlags
    $aDevice[4] = DllStructGetData($tDevice, "ID")
    Return $aDevice
EndFunc   ;==>_WinAPI_EnumDisplayDevices

[PsaltyDS 29]

What version are you looking at? The current version of AutoIt is 3.3.6.1, and the example script's loop in the help file exits like this:

While 1
    $aDevice = _WinAPI_EnumDisplayDevices("", $i)
    If Not $aDevice[0] Then ExitLoop
    
    ;...

WEnd

It's testing the return code in $aDevice[0], not @error.

Edit: Oops, spoke too soon. I was looking at the example script, not the UDF function.

The example script is still wrong. Since the function does not always return an array, the example should not assume $aDevice is an array, and $aDevice[0] is available to test.

Edited August 16, 2010 by PsaltyDS

[trancexx 927]

Changing it the way murmansk suggest would be wrong. It would be script braking change.

Solution could be (murmansk's choice of variable names):

;...
$retval = DllCall("user32.dll", "bool", "EnumDisplayDevicesW", "ptr", $pName, "dword", $iDevNum, "ptr", $pDevice, "dword", 1)
If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, 0)
If $retval[0] Then $aDevice[0] = True
;...

This should be reported so that someday when devs decide they are done with fucking around and pissing contest they could fix it.

Edited August 16, 2010 by trancexx