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Please help me convert this function to AHK.. I have no programming experience.

'int (__stdcall *VendorCmdRW.dll!GetIRCode)(unsigned char*)'

I believe I don't have to mention about the InitIR API. But that was pretty simple; the prototype turned out to be
'void (__stdcall *InitIR)(void)'

This is from the thread control applications with TV-tuner's remote control

I presume "VendorCmdRW.dll!" means it is in that file. I'd be surprised if that is valid C/C++. Anyway,

• int - This is the default return type for DllCall, so we don't need to specify a return type.
• ( * ) - It appears to be defining a pointer to a function rather than the actual exported function. If we assume the signature is correct, we can ignore this part.
• __stdcall - This is the default calling convention for DllCall, so we can ignore it.
• unsigned char* - This part might be straightforward (see below). C/C++ char is equivalent to DllCall's Char. Since it is unsigned, we prepend U. * means it is a pointer; for DllCall we just append * or P: "UChar*" or UCharP.

Try this:

However, occasionally in C/C++ a pointer type is used not as a pointer to a single value, but a pointer to an array of arbitrary length. UCharP only covers the former case; in the latter case, the code above may be unsafe. We would need to know the usage of the function, not just its signature.

Thanks a lot!! It works just fine..
I will soon post a thread with controls for my TVR, so that someone else may benefit..