Re: Oracle Foreign Function (ORA_FFI)
Date: 1996/10/26
Message-ID: <54tri2$qjg_at_news.latnet.lv>#1/1
gvramesh_at_ix.netcom.com (Ganapathy Ramesh) wrote:
>I have been quite successful at writing Forms 4.0/4.5 userexits. I am
>now trying to use ORA_FFI built-ins to execute a very simple C DLL
>which receives two LPSTR pointers as parameters. I am simply using the
>MessageBox function in Visual C++ 1.51 to display these parameters. I
>have followed the PL/SQL wrapper example provided with Forms 4.5
>called WINSAMP.FMB/FMX. Though I am able to get upto the call, nothing
>inside the C function seems to execute. The PL/SQL constants I have
>used are C_CHAR_PTR and the starting memory location is 11265. I tried
>compiling the DLL as a large, medium and small memory model, but there
>were no results returned from the DLL. Could anyone out there please
>point out where I might be making a mistake ? Is it possible that the
>DLL I cam creating should be created like an userexit instead of an
>ordinary DLL ? Thanking you iin advance.
>G.V.Ramesh
Hi !
I have some experience using ORA_FFI.
If you will send C source and PL/SQL code where you call
your DLL function, i will point out where you might be making a
mistake.
Received on Sat Oct 26 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST