Greeting,

I am currently experiencing the following _serious_ problem.

When I first starting using the Word API from the MS Word developer's kit,
it referenced the old ANSI (2i) C library from an older CodeWarrior (6 I
think). I updated the project files and replaced the old ANSI (2i) with the
latest one from CodeWarrior 11. Everything worked fine until i recently
added some new code that I had developed externally to the API project file
that made extnesive use of the string.h from the Metrowerks Standard
Library. This project was PPC, whereas the old project had been 68k. I
thought there would be no problems since I used only ANSI calls. However
when I moved my code to the Word API project, I got a link error saying
that the ctype_map could not be found at link time. I replaced the old
Plum-Hall library (ANSI (2i)) with the current MSL (4i-8d) library and the
problem went away.

Now, I have an even worse problem than a link error--As soon as the code
resource loads, Word crashes, the MW de{*filter*} crashes, everything _crashes_
very hard, and the only thing I can think of is that Word doesn't like the
4-byte integers.

Is there a way to get the MSL library to use 2-byte ints so that it won't
crash Word, or is there some other problem here that I am missing. I really
need help on this one!

Thanks,
Dave Sanabria

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 Everything worked fine until i recently

If this is a PPC project though, none of the 68k libraries should work, so
I am a bit confused.  If the Word API is in PPC then you would have no
problem since all integers are 32 bit by default and all doubles are 64,
unlike the 68k system.

If you have more information that would clear up my confusion feel free to
write.  However it seems just applying the patches and creating your own
libraries will solve your immediate needs.

Ron

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