586222 - the ctypes api doesnt work on the nightly build installed at the 11.08.10, retried on the 4.0b2

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: js-ctypes, defect)

Description

[karsten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 (update deactivated!!!)

this code doesnt work (from MDC doc)

			Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/ctypes.jsm");  


			var lib = ctypes.open("C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\user32.dll");  
	  
			/* Declare the signature of the function we are going to call */  
			var msgBox = lib.declare("MessageBoxW",  
									 ctypes.stdcall_abi,  
									 ctypes.int32_t,  
									 ctypes.int32_t,  
									 ctypes.jschar.ptr,  
									 ctypes.jschar.ptr,  
									 ctypes.int32_t);  
			var MB_OK = 3;  
			  
			var ret = msgBox(0, "Hello World", "FRITZ!Box Addon", MB_OK);  
			  
			lib.close();

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run this code in an addon script
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
it is working on the 4.0b2 BUT NOT on the nightly build frm the 10.08.10

Expected Results:  
should work the same

Comment 1

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

Found during triage. moving to a (hopefully) more appropriate component.

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

I'm pretty sure that SeaMonkey doesn't use this User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b2)
Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to comment #0)
>             /* Declare the signature of the function we are going to call */  
>             var msgBox = lib.declare("MessageBoxW",  
>                                      ctypes.stdcall_abi,  

Use ctypes.winapi_abi.