[Martenlist] external structure access problem

[Adrian Wirz]

I have finally succeeded in integrating a dynamic library into a 
framework. After some tests it seems to run pretty well (finally). The 
main problem was linking the dynamic library with a non-standard name 
in Xcode 1.5 which seems to be rather reluctant to find such a library 
when linking.

Now there are a few problems regarding access to external structures. 
Here is one:

The following declaration run through the C tool yields the subsequent 
result:

typedef unsigned char 	st32[32];
typedef struct IDRec {
					 st32		StationName;
					 st32		UserName;
					 st32		UserPass;
					 st32		TaskName;
					 Boolean 	isapi;
					 Boolean 	unused;
				} IDRec;

After running through the C tool:

VPL_ExtField _IDRec_6 = { 
"unused",129,1,kUnsignedType,"NULL",0,0,"unsigned char",NULL};
VPL_ExtField _IDRec_5 = { 
"isapi",128,1,kUnsignedType,"NULL",0,0,"unsigned char",&_IDRec_6};
VPL_ExtField _IDRec_4 = { "TaskName",96,32,kPointerType,"unsigned 
char",0,1,NULL,&_IDRec_5};
VPL_ExtField _IDRec_3 = { "UserPass",64,32,kPointerType,"unsigned 
char",0,1,NULL,&_IDRec_4};
VPL_ExtField _IDRec_2 = { "UserName",32,32,kPointerType,"unsigned 
char",0,1,NULL,&_IDRec_3};
VPL_ExtField _IDRec_1 = { "StationName",0,32,kPointerType,"unsigned 
char",0,1,NULL,&_IDRec_2};
VPL_ExtStructure _IDRec_S = {"IDRec",&_IDRec_1};

I cannot access the string fields in IDRec from within Marten (build 
056.00g006) with the following code:

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The code is executed alright but when I retrieve the fields again they 
contain nothing or garbage. So I asked myself whether the computed type 
(kPointerType) of the fields is correct? Or is the way I access the 
fields not correct?

I'd be very happy about some help here. Thanks.

Regards                 Adrian

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