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Re: EuCOM : Attn Matt : String Return Value

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at ?luefrog.co?> Oct 05, 2007
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Rad wrote:
> > 
> > It is available for download as shareware from <a
> > href="http://www.atma-software.com/1crypt/index.html">http://www.atma-software.com/1crypt/index.html</a>
> > 
> 
> This is really strange.  I can get all of the members to work, except for
> EncryptString and DecryptString.  Both of those give an error, and they
> crash if you call any combination of the two multiple times.
> 
> It all worked fine using VBA and C#.  But now it gets really weird.  If I
> translate using Watcom (OW1.7) then it works.  I tried wrapping the COM
> calls and translating to a dll, then using open_dll, etc, and if I run
> my onecrypt.exw using the interpreter, then it doesn't work.  If I 
> translate it and call the dll that way, then it works.  This makes no
> sense to me.
> 
> Perhaps the author could explain it.  Are we (the calling application) 
> expected to instantiate some interface?  I tend to doubt this.  
> 
> I thought that maybe there was some difference between the way it was 
> being called when translated vs interpreted (not that I could imagine
> what that difference might be), but I figured that by putting all of
> that code into a dll (i.e., eucom.ew, onecrypt.ew) that the problem
> would resolve itself.  But apparently not.  It's a truly bizarre thing
> that I can't explain.
> 

Matt:

If you look at the docs it says returns TYPE string not BSTR ?

Also it has a output property of either HEX or BINARY maybe this
has to be set before calling. 

Bernie

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WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

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