Inline assembly

For some reason the assembly i learned wont work as inline in Visual C++. Could someone post a link to a tutorial or an example or a reason why it wont work. Thanks.

Anyone?

[Vlatko]

Could you post your assembly code so we can see what isn't working.

[parksie]

Hmm...don't use the inline keyword...

long myfunc(long in) {
    __asm {
        mov eax, in
    }
}

That just returns the supplied value.

This line would create an error...

_asm    mov    hAppInstance, hInstance

[parksie]

Try:

push ebx
mov ebx, hInstance
mov hAppInstance, ebx
pop ebx

There probably isn't a direct path from memory->memory like that (I don't know).

That worked, so apparently everything i learned in ASM for Windows, is crap. So as an example for me could someone turn this piece of code into ASM for me? Thanks.

while(GetMessage(&Msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{			
	if(doit == 1)
	{					
		GetCursorPos(&Mouse2);				
		if(Mouse2.x != Mouse.x || Mouse2.y != Mouse.y)
		{
			GetCursorPos(&Mouse);
			Window = WindowFromPoint(Mouse);
			Window = ChildWindowFromPoint(Window, Mouse);
			Hdc = GetWindowDC(Window);
												
			Colors = GetPixel(Hdc, Mouse.x, Mouse.y);

			Red = GetRValue(Colors);
			Green = GetGValue(Colors);
			Blue = GetBValue(Colors);

			SetDlgItemInt(hMainDialog, ID_EDIT_RED, Red, FALSE);
			SetDlgItemInt(hMainDialog, ID_EDIT_GREEN, Green, FALSE);
			SetDlgItemInt(hMainDialog, ID_EDIT_BLUE, Blue, FALSE);	
			SetDlgItemInt(hMainDialog, ID_EDIT_HEX, Colors, FALSE);
		}			
	}

	TranslateMessage(&Msg);
	DispatchMessage(&Msg);
}

If i made an ass out of myself by asking all that, then could someone do a paragraph on calling an API function. In MASM i learned to do it this way...

VC++

Colors = GetPixel(Hdc, Mouse.x, Mouse.y);

MASM

call   GetPixel, Hdc, Mouse.x, Mouse.y
mov    Colors, eax

Or something like that. But when i do that in VC++, i get errors everytime. So could ya just explain how to call API. Thanks.

Anyone? Just a paragraph or two on how to call an API?

Is that to much to ask?

[V(ery) Basic]

I'm not really sure, but I think you have to push the parameters in reverse order:

push   Mouse.y
push   Mouse.x
push   Hdc 
call   GetPixel
mov    Colors, eax

I hope this works,

Me.

I looked around some tutorials for TASM, just to see if i could find an answer. Well thats what i found, and for some reason that wont work either. I think VC++ has its own way of doing ASM. But thanks for trying though. And i know im whining in this thread, but because the code is in the message loop, its really slow. So i want to replace the whole message loop so it will go faster. But thanks though...

Anyone else?

Hey parksie, any suggestions?

[parksie]

Not really...

VC++ uses normal ASM. The thing about MASM (or possibly TASM), is that it uses different non-standard syntax to make it easier to call functions, rather than V(ery)'s utterly correct method of pushing them onto the stack. By the way, that's what __stdcall means - doing that. The other conventions have different methods, but that is the easiest to implement in nearly all cases.