Can someone help me with this function? I want to implement `<http://java.io|java.io>.File#path` usi...

# kotlin-native

[Gieted]

Can someone help me with this function? I want to implement <http://java.io|java.io>.File#path using Windows native apis. However, I'm not sure which arguments I should supply this function with and how to convert resulting DWORD to Kotlin's String

[gildor]

maybe toKString()? Though, I’m not familiar with WinAPI, toKString() used for standard C strings (arrays)

[Gieted]

This function returns UInt, so I guess the result of this function should be put into a buffer, that you pass as an argument. However, I have no idea how to create this buffer and then read value from it

[gildor]

ah I see, you need something like this:

val length = 4096
val buffer = allocArray<ByteVar>(length)

GetFullPathNameW(pathname, length, buffer null)

[gildor]

This will allocate simple bytevar array

Another way is to use Kotlin buffer, something like this:

val buffer = ByteArray(4096)
GetFullPathNameW(pathname, buffer.size, buffer.refTo(0).getPointer(this /* memScoped */), null)