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"Lapo Guidi" <lapoguidi@inwind.it> wrote in message
news:434c5d74@newsgroups.borland.com...

> My problem is that this function is quite new so my BCB 6
> haven't it in winbase.h and, I suppose, in Kernel32.lib.

GetSystemTimes() is only available on XP SP1, 2003 Server, and Vista
(Longhorn).  BCB6 was released years before any of them were released.

> Somebody can help me to solve the problem?

Use GetModuleHandle() and GetProcAddress() to load the function dynamically
at runtime.  For example:

    typedef BOOL (__stdcall *LPFN_GST)(LPFILETIME, LPFILETIME, LPFILETIME);

    LPFN_GST lpGetSystemTimes = (LPFN_GST)
GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("KERNEL32"), "GetSystemTimes");
    if( lpGetSystemTimes )
    {
        FILETIME IdleTime, KernelTime, UserTime;
        if( lpGetSystemTimes(&IdleTime, &KernelTime, &UserTime) )
        {
            // use IdleTime, KernelTime, UserTime as needed...
        }
        else
        {
            DWORD dwError = GetLastError();
            // use dwError as needed...
        }
    }

> Should I download the Platform SDK from Microsoft site?

No, because much of it is not usable with BCB as-is.  Borland usually has to
make tweaks to the PSDK in order for it to work with Borland's compiler and
then release their own copy of it with the IDE.


Gambit