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[McCoy]

It's possible in WME to call Windows API functions? If it's possible, how? Like calling an external DLL? Please, Jan, put an example with CreateFile and WriteFile if it's possible...

[Mnemonic]

Yes, calling Windows API functions is essentially the same as calling any other DLL function. But the Windows file functions are rather complex to be called directly from a script. I'd recommend writing your own simple DLL to encapsulate the API calls (or even better to use some high-level C functions, such as fopen a fwrite).

[McCoy]

Well, I asked that because I didn't wanted to do a DLL if I can call directly the API Functions... But if it's that hard, I'll make a DLL using IOstreams... I hope...

[Mnemonic]

Ok, I'm not saying it's impossible. You'd have to find out the actual values for all the constants used in CreateFile and pass them from WME script as numbers. Another problem is that the WriteFile function takes a DWORD pointer as a parametr, but WME script doesn't allow you to use pointers. You'd have to fake it using a string variable.
Well, it's way to messy for my taste...