Re: Off-topic: Problem with a C func
- Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <patrat at INAME.COM> Jul 08, 2000
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pi_3wzc.htm This should have the information you need Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483 Rat Software http://www.ratsoft.freeserve.co.uk/ Get paid to surf the web! http://members.tripod.co.uk/paid2surf/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Darth Maul, aka Matt <Uglyfish87 at HOTMAIL.COM> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 8:35 PM Subject: Off-topic: Problem with a C func > I just got a book recently, the "Win32 API Bible". It has tons of stuff in > it from creating windows to error and exception handling, I've even made > two programs that talk to each other with Windows thingies called atoms! > I'm working on a library for using the registry. It's worked well so far > except for one function: RegQueryValueEx. The problem is, I give it the > exact parameters as shown in the book, but it either returns ERROR_BAD_ > PARAMETER or ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, and I don't know why! I was hoping that > maybe someone could help and show me what to pass it. > > P.S. I noticed that if I give it a LONG and six POINTERs, it returns > ERROR_BAD_PARAMETER. But if I pass it only 5 POINTERs, it returns > ERROR_SUCCESS and the area where the value data should be has nothing but > garbage. >