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Windows API: Using Large Integers (64bit) in Clarion applications
2002-04-01 -- Paul van Drunick
 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.clarion Large integers (64 bit) and Win API GetDiskFreeSpaceEx. A contribution to the community. The last couple of days I was struggling with the Win API GetDiskFreeSpaceEx. This API takes large integers of 64 bit as parameters. Ulong is 32 bit and the largest integer in Clarion and GetDiskFreeSpace works only well with max. 2GB. So I looked around and gathered information from all kind of sources like the Clarion community and Microsoft to make a working solution. I did not find a ready working solution so had to do some thinking for my self. Well I did and find the following working solution. Next I thought why struggle all when one is enough. So here is my working solution for all who are looking for something similar and as a thank you to those who gave me some answers in the past and hopefully again in the future. I'm always in for improvement so if somebody has something to add to this code . With kind regards, Paul van Drunick DruSoft Software Netherlands www.drusoft.nl info@drusoft.nl The code: In WinApi.CLW: LARGEINTEGER GROUP,TYPE dwLowPart long dwHighPart long END ! You have to create a kernel32.lib with this api in it (with libmaker and kernel32.dll) ! and add it to your project. This api is not in the clarion libs and ! only compatible with Win 95-OSR2/98/NT 4.0/2000/XP MODULE('KERNEL32.DLL') GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(*LPCSTR,*LARGEINTEGER,*LARGEINTEGER,*LARGEINTEGER),BOOL,P ASCAL,RAW,NAME('GetDiskFreeSpaceExA') END Code for your function or method: SomeFunction PROCEDURE lintFreeBytesCaller group(LARGEINTEGER) end lintTotalBytes group(LARGEINTEGER) end lintFreeBytes group(LARGEINTEGER) end decFreeBytesLow DECIMAL(31) ! max decimal is not enough for ! max result of ! 3,3161584934796709483252973253515e+327 decFreeBytesHigh DECIMAL(31) ! but is enough for this purpose ! maybe someone knows an alternative? decFreeBytes DECIMAL(31) cstrPath CSTRING(MAX_PATH) CODE cstrPath = clip(SomePath) if GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(cstrPath, lintFreeBytesCaller, lintTotalBytes, lintFreeBytes) then . ! you can also use lintFreeBytesCaller (users free space in this path) if lintFreeBytes.dwLowPart < 0 decFreeBytesLow = 2 ^ 32 + lintFreeBytes.dwLowPart else decFreeBytesLow = lintFreeBytes.dwLowPart end if lintFreeBytes.dwHighPart < 0 decFreeBytesHigh = 2 ^ 32 + lintFreeBytes.dwHighPart else decFreeBytesHigh = lintFreeBytes.dwHighPart end decFreeBytes = decFreeBytesLow + decFreeBytesHigh * 2 ^ 32


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