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- See below some functions declarations for Visual Basic.
-
- Frequently Asked Question:
-
- Q: Each time I use the compress function I get the -5 error (not enough
- room in the output buffer).
-
- A: Make sure that the length of the compressed buffer is passed by
- reference ("as any"), not by value ("as long"). Also check that
- before the call of compress this length is equal to the total size of
- the compressed buffer and not zero.
-
-
- From: "Jon Caruana" <jon-net@usa.net>
- Subject: Re: How to port zlib declares to vb?
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:33:03 -0600
-
- Got the answer! (I haven't had time to check this but it's what I got, and
- looks correct):
-
- He has the following routines working:
- compress
- uncompress
- gzopen
- gzwrite
- gzread
- gzclose
-
- Declares follow: (Quoted from Carlos Rios <c_rios@sonda.cl>, in Vb4 form)
-
- #If Win16 Then 'Use Win16 calls.
- Declare Function compress Lib "ZLIB.DLL" (ByVal compr As
- String, comprLen As Any, ByVal buf As String, ByVal buflen
- As Long) As Integer
- Declare Function uncompress Lib "ZLIB.DLL" (ByVal uncompr
- As String, uncomprLen As Any, ByVal compr As String, ByVal
- lcompr As Long) As Integer
- Declare Function gzopen Lib "ZLIB.DLL" (ByVal filePath As
- String, ByVal mode As String) As Long
- Declare Function gzread Lib "ZLIB.DLL" (ByVal file As
- Long, ByVal uncompr As String, ByVal uncomprLen As Integer)
- As Integer
- Declare Function gzwrite Lib "ZLIB.DLL" (ByVal file As
- Long, ByVal uncompr As String, ByVal uncomprLen As Integer)
- As Integer
- Declare Function gzclose Lib "ZLIB.DLL" (ByVal file As
- Long) As Integer
- #Else
- Declare Function compress Lib "ZLIB32.DLL"
- (ByVal compr As String, comprLen As Any, ByVal buf As
- String, ByVal buflen As Long) As Integer
- Declare Function uncompress Lib "ZLIB32.DLL"
- (ByVal uncompr As String, uncomprLen As Any, ByVal compr As
- String, ByVal lcompr As Long) As Long
- Declare Function gzopen Lib "ZLIB32.DLL"
- (ByVal file As String, ByVal mode As String) As Long
- Declare Function gzread Lib "ZLIB32.DLL"
- (ByVal file As Long, ByVal uncompr As String, ByVal
- uncomprLen As Long) As Long
- Declare Function gzwrite Lib "ZLIB32.DLL"
- (ByVal file As Long, ByVal uncompr As String, ByVal
- uncomprLen As Long) As Long
- Declare Function gzclose Lib "ZLIB32.DLL"
- (ByVal file As Long) As Long
- #End If
-
- -Jon Caruana
- jon-net@usa.net
- Microsoft Sitebuilder Network Level 1 Member - HTML Writer's Guild Member
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