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Frequently Asked Questions

External function failure when passing boolean parms.

Question:

Why do some external functions fail when passed a boolean parameter of True?

Answer:

In Delphi 3, the value "True" for data types ByteBool, WordBool,
and LongBool is now represented as -1 for compatibility with Microsoft
Visual Basic. Note that many compilers represent "True" as either
non-zero or a positive 1. When passing values to non Visual Basic
applications, you should consider using  the following technique
to avoid incompatibilities:

LongBool(Abs(True));

When accepting boolean values from any external source, you should
always test against the value "False". The following technique should
always work, since the value for false is always zero:

if BoolValPassed <> False then DoSomething.



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