cards.dll part2 - parksie and others

[highlife]

why wont LoadLibrary("cards.dll") work on a windows 98 machine? it has worked on NT and 2000. it attempts to load it but returns a FALSE everytime.

i did a findfile and i know the computer has cards.dll in the windows system folder. i also tried placing a copy of cards.dll in the debug folder of my project.

[parksie]

Do you have a Win9x copy of cards.dll? If it works with Solitaire and that lot I suppose it should work

[highlife]

yep its got a win98 copy, its in the c:/windows/system directory

just wont open!!

[highlife]

i called GetLastError after the LoadLibrary and it returned 31 , if that helps anyone at all.

maybe i need a 32 bit version of cards.dll, if anyone has this and would post it, i would greatly appretiate it!

[parksie]

Not sure about the usefulness of that one

//
// MessageId: ERROR_GEN_FAILURE
//
// MessageText:
//
//  A device attached to the system is not functioning.
//
#define ERROR_GEN_FAILURE                31L

from WinError.h

[highlife]

i called GetLastError after the LoadLibrary and it returned 31 , if that helps anyone at all.

maybe i need a 32 bit version of cards.dll, if anyone has this and would post it, i would greatly appretiate it!

[highlife]

well now i got a copy of cards32.dll and load that. it loads fine but when i call the init function or draw it gives this error:

"Debug Error!

The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call. This is usually a result of calling a function declared with one calling convention with a function pointer declared with a different calling convention."

if i press ignore the program will go on and still work, but obviously i dont want this error here.

[highlife]

well it kinda seems like im talking to myself here but if i compile the project in Release mode the error isnt there so who really cares!

[parksie]

Make sure that the function pointer you're using has the __stdcall attribute set.