What would this be in Autoit?

[AzKay]

Private Enum SOMETHING
    _SOMETHING1 = 0
    _SOMETHING2 = 1
End Enum

Private Declare Function SomeFunction Lib "user32.dll" Alias "_SomeFunction" (somevar As SOMETHING) As Long

Edited January 17, 2009 by AzKay

[Jos]

Enum doesn't do what you want ?

Jos

Edited January 17, 2009 by Jos

[AzKay]

I dont see how it works.

[Jos]

Depends on what you really want to do. maybe show some code you are working on and needs this in?

[AzKay]

Well, In the case of the first post; It would be something like:

$someVar = "adsfasfdf"
DllCall("user32.dll", "long", "_SomeFunction", "SOMETHING", $somevar)

The SOMETHING, would be;

Private Enum SOMETHING
    _SOMETHING1 = 0
    _SOMETHING2 = 1
End Enum

I dont see how that works in autoit.

Edited January 17, 2009 by AzKay

[Jos]

Still lost as to what you expect as a result of this shown SOMETHING call.

To me Enum is a function to enumurate something and you are calling it with a string as input ?

[AzKay]

I have no idea whats going on here. Which is why I was asking if anyone knew what the VB6 code in the first post, would be in autoit. SOMETHING, is apparently a data type, which to me doesnt make sense.

[ProgAndy]

in VB you can use ENUMs as datatypes and only values which are available in the enum are accepted. in AutoIt this would be:

Global Enum $_SOMETHING1=0, $_SOMETHING2
DllCall("some.dll","long","SomeFunction","dword",$_SOMETHING1)
; or 
DllCall("some.dll","long","SomeFunction","dword",$_SOMETHING2)

[-Ultima-]

The short answer would be that you can use "int" instead of "SOMETHING" for the variable type.

The longer answer is that Enum(erated types) in some other languages are similar, but not quite the same as Enum in AutoIt. When you define an Enum in some other languages, it actually creates a new type. Something like

enum color { RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET };

in C++ creates a new type called "color" by which you can create new variables of that type (see Wikipedia for more details).

I guess you don't need to worry about the distinction here, though It's just to explain that AutoIt's Enum doesn't have the same type-creation behavior that VB's Enum has. In the end, you can still work around that because enumerated types have constant values that people (usually?) associate with integers, so you can just send the associated integer for the enumerated constant you want (you'll notice that in your example VB code, _SOMETHING1 is associated 0, and _SOMETHING2 is associated with 1).

Edited January 17, 2009 by -Ultima-

[torels]

maybe a dll struct ??

[-Ultima-]

Not in this case, no, since this is just an enum.

[AzKay]

Thanks :3