Get String From Offset Topic is solved

[lmstearn]

Hi there,
Suppose we setup a structure for a physical monitor thus with the well known:

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OffsetDWORD := 4
byteSize := A_IsUnicode ? 2 : 1
Physical_Monitor_size_single:= OffsetDWORD + byteSize * 128
VarSetCapacity(Physical_Monitor, Physical_Monitor_size_single, 0)

GetPhysicalMonitorsFromHMONITOR returns a handle, (0 for me but works) which is easily obtained.
But now we wish to grab the actual Physical_Monitor_size_single string which equates to something like

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buf := NumGet(Physical_Monitor, OffsetDWORD, "Str") ; we wish
;The longer version of above is 
Physical_Monitor := ""
Loop
{
buf := NumGet(Physical_Monitor, OffsetDWORD + byteSize * A_Index, "Char")
Physical_Monitor .= buf
} Until buf = "\0"

Is this the best approach?
Thanks.

[Helgef]

Type
One of the following strings (defaults to UPtr if omitted):
UInt, Int, Int64, Short, UShort, Char, UChar, Double, Float, Ptr or UPtr

You might be interested in StrGet.

Good luck.

Edit:
Try this,

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Msgbox, % "\0"

What do you see?

[lmstearn]

Type
One of the following strings (defaults to UPtr if omitted):
UInt, Int, Int64, Short, UShort, Char, UChar, Double, Float, Ptr or UPtr

You might be interested in StrGet.

Good luck.

Edit:
Try this,

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Msgbox, % "\0"

What do you see?

I see a bad moon a-rising
(And no escape but the AHK default!)

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Msgbox, % "`0"

Thanks, missed Strget, no more worrying about null characters:

In Unicode, there is a character with a corresponding glyph for visual representation of the null character, "symbol for null", U+2400 (␀) -not to be confused with the actual null character, U+0000.