Hi Paul,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> from ctypes import windll
> MessageBox = windll.User32.MessageBoxW
> MessageBox(0, "Hello, world!", "Title", 0)
You are right that it's a bit cumbersome in cffi up to and including
0.5, but in the cffi trunk all standard Windows types are included.
So the general answer to your question is: we google MessageBox and
copy that line from the microsoft site, and manually remove the
unnecessary WINAPI and _In_opt declarations:
from cffi import FFI
ffi = FFI()
ffi.cdef("""
int MessageBox(HWND hWnd, LPCTSTR lpText, LPCTSTR lpCaption, UINT uType);
""")
lib = ffi.dlopen("USER32.DLL")
lib.MessageBox(ffi.NULL, "Hello, world!", "Title", 0)
That's a slightly unfair example, because in this case it happens to
work with ctypes without specifying the argtypes and the restype. I
would argue that this feature of ctypes is not a good thing: it's
mostly the same as saying "you only need to declare argtypes and
restype if you get nonsense results or segfaults".
Note for completeness that the version with verify() simply replaces
"lib = ffi.dlopen("USER32.DLL")" with "lib = ffi.verify("")" (no
#include necessary here). Then you cannot misdeclare anything without
getting clear compile-time errors at the verify(). The compilation
occurs only once (it's cached) and by writing two lines in your
setup.py you can distribute binary installations, just like you do
with hand-written C extension modules; so the extra burden of
accessing the API level is in my opinion very small compared to its
segfault-avoiding gain. But I know that either level of access can
make sense in different situations. Typically, on Windows, the
ABI-level works fine; as argued elsewhere, on other platforms and/or
with some libraries, the API-level is definitely more suited.
A bientôt,
Armin.
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