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Re: Problem building modules

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From: Robert Skinner
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:26
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In article <78154@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt3021b@prism.gatech.EDU writes:
> Any help with the following problems greatly appreciated!
> 
> First of all, I have tried to subscribe the the explorer mailing list
> through explorer-request@castle.ed.ac.uk and have had no response.
> Could my request getting lost somewhere?  Could someone from the list
> please contact me?

I think most people are using this newsgroup, hence the silence you hear
so loudly.


>   b) On a module under development, we discovered that we needed to add another
>      input port.  We edited the .mres with module builder and added the
>      code to call it within our function.  (We are not using the Data
>      Wrapper we are using X in a drawing area)  

I'm not sure I follow you here, but

>      I call cxInputPortOpen
>      and I get back an integer (3, the third parameter defined in the
>      mbuilder)  But when I call cxInputDataGet, I get a ptr  to 0 and
>      then, of course, the call to cxParamStrGet fails.  When I try to
>      get its type, cxParmTypeGet returns a -1.  

If it returns a NULL, then no data has been received (and there is no 
type).  I'll make sure that cxParamStrGet is fixed, but if there's no 
data, it will probably return a NULL.

Robert Skinner

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Subject: Re: Problem building modules
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:26:35 GMT
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