I'm using winstl_module and the function module::get_handle() isn't
implemented!
It's a one liner, so I guess it's easy to forget... or is winstl_module not
ready for public use yet?

BTW, I'd done one of these before, and had given it an extra function (extra as in "besides just loading/unloading"):

 template<typename FnType>
 bool get_fn(char const* fn_name, FnType& fn) const
 {
  assert(m_dll != NULL);

  fn = reinterpret_cast<FnType>(GetProcAddress(m_dll, fn_name));
  return (fn != NULL);
 }

So all you do is use:

  void (*run)() = NULL;

  if( updater.get_fn("run", run) )
   run();

Where run can be of any type... it's not that great but it saves you the typedef or the double typing when getting a function's address.

"Pablo Aguilar" <paguilarg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cjvfib$13ti$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I'm using winstl_module and the function module::get_handle() isn't implemented!
> It's a one liner, so I guess it's easy to forget... or is winstl_module not ready for public use yet?

Fixed. Silly me, eh?

> BTW, I'd done one of these before, and had given it an extra function (extra as in "besides just loading/unloading"):
>
> template<typename FnType>
> bool get_fn(char const* fn_name, FnType& fn) const
> {
>  assert(m_dll != NULL);
>
>  fn = reinterpret_cast<FnType>(GetProcAddress(m_dll, fn_name));
>  return (fn != NULL);
> }
>
> So all you do is use:
>
>  void (*run)() = NULL;
>
>  if( updater.get_fn("run", run) )
>   run();
>
> Where run can be of any type... it's not that great but it saves you the typedef or the double typing when getting a function's address.

That's a nice idea.

This is now in winstl::module. I've also enhanced the class so that it can participate in copy construction, by ref-counting the underlying module (via GetModuleFileName and LoadLibrary).

This'll be in 1.8.3.

"Pablo Aguilar" <paguilarg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cjvfib$13ti$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I'm using winstl_module and the function module::get_handle() isn't
> implemented!
> It's a one liner, so I guess it's easy to forget... or is
> winstl_module not ready for public use yet?
>
> BTW, I'd done one of these before, and had given it an extra function (extra as in "besides just loading/unloading"):
>
> template<typename FnType>
> bool get_fn(char const* fn_name, FnType& fn) const
> {
>  assert(m_dll != NULL);
>
>  fn = reinterpret_cast<FnType>(GetProcAddress(m_dll, fn_name));
>  return (fn != NULL);
> }
>
> So all you do is use:
>
>  void (*run)() = NULL;
>
>  if( updater.get_fn("run", run) )
>   run();
>
> Where run can be of any type... it's not that great but it saves you the typedef or the double typing when getting a function's address.
> 

"Matthew" <admin@stlsoft.dot.dot.dot.dot.org> wrote in message news:cts8ud$1p3q$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> This is now in winstl::module. I've also enhanced the class so that it can participate in copy construction, by ref-counting the underlying module (via GetModuleFileName and LoadLibrary).
>
> This'll be in 1.8.3.

Great!