>edward,
>your problem is most probably that you are returning a pointer to a string
>from
>and your function type is char (single character)
>
>Arnon
>
>
>>
>>I wrote a small dll that calls the localtime() function in Visual C++ 5.0.
>>When I call this function,ConvertTime(), I get a memory error. The dll
>>works fine because I can call the test() function. I am a Foxpro
>>programmer, not a C++ programer, and I can't figure out what I am doing
>>wrong. Could someone help? Here is
>> the code:
>>
>
>> ///////////////////////////////////////
>> //
>> // ConvertTime()
>> //
>> ///////////////////////////////////////
>>
>> char ConvertTime(void)
>> {
>> struct tm *newtime;
>> time_t aclock;
>> char* rtntime;
>>
>> aclock=8067157205;
>>
>> newtime = localtime(&aclock);
>>
>> rtntime = asctime(newtime);
>>
>> return(*rtntime);
>>
>> }
>>
Arnon:

How do I allow the function to return a string. As near as I can tell, you can't declare the function return type as "string".

I've declared the dll in VFP as such:
DECLARE STRING ConvertTime IN Timeconv AS ConvertTime

So how do I make ConvertTime() (code above) return a string?

Ed
>>
>> /////////////////////////////////////
>> //
>> // test()
>> ////////////////////////////////////
>>
>> int rtn ;
>>
>> char test(void)
>> {
>> rtn = 6;
>> return (rtn);
>> }
>>
>>
>> Here is the .def file
>>
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> ;
>> ; timeconv.def
>> ;
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>
>> LIBRARY timeconv
>> CODE PRELOAD MOVEABLE DISCARDABLE
>> DATA PRELOAD SINGLE
>>
>> EXPORTS
>> ConvertTime
>> test
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> Thanks, Ed
>>
>>