Hi!

I would like to call a c-function with the following signature:

STATUS LNPUBLIC NSFDbOpen (const char far *PathName, DBHANDLE far *rethDB);

The paremeter PathName is the path to a Lotus Notes database. My PInvoke
declaration looks like this (VB.NET):

<DllImport("nnotes.dll")> Private Shared Function _
NSFDbOpen( _
ByVal PathName As String, _
ByRef rethDb As IntPtr _
) As UInteger
End Function

Calling this functin works fine for two pathes, that have no
special-characters like ä,ü etc in them. When calling it with a path
including an ü-character, i get an error, claiming, no file was found.

Additionally I found a blog where someone solved the problem by changing his
(non-.NET)-VB-Code like this:

Declare Function W32_NSFDbOpen Lib "nnotes.dll" Alias "NSFDbOpen" ( Byval
dbName As Lmbcs String, hDb As Long) As Integer

LINK:
http://www.theoldgit.com/redloh/TheO...%20LotusScript

He included the Lmbcs in the declaration and succeeded.
I don't know, what this means as I am not very fit in VB.

LMBCS is declared in the Notes C-API like this:

typedef unsigned char LMBCS;

My question is:
Can someone of you gather from the methods signature, how I have to modify
the Marshaling to correctly pass Strings including special characters beyong
ASCI, so that the C Api will be able to work with it?

Regards,
Markward

Thanks a lot.

Finally i found a proper function in the Notes-C-API. It is called
NLS_translate(...) and was able to use this to convert the strings.

May be this might help others having the same problem

Bye

Hi!

Thanks for the help!

I found a function that does what I need:

NLS_STATUS LNPUBLIC NLS_translate(
BYTE far *pString,
WORD Len,
BYTE far *pStringTarget,
WORD far *pSize,
WORD ControlFlags,
NLS_PINFO pInfo);

It is part of the Notes C-API

Maybe this helps people having the same problem