weird. Caching of Extern commands?
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I have been using a few different Win32 functions in a project. Then I made a brand new bmx file and called a Win32 function without declaring it first with Extern. I'm also not including any source files. For exampleSetClassLongA(TheWindow,-14,icon) This compiles on its own as a full program! How can it do that? If I add this line: abc() it won't compile as it says "identifier abc not found", fair enough. It's almost like the the extern declarations are cached by BlitzMax or something. What's going on? |
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| Some core commands are already in the BM libraries used and thus externed in one of the BRL / PUB modules. |
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| A lot of the Win32 functions are already declared. Btw, using API specific stuff is going to make a Mac port of your next game a complete nightmare! |
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| Check Pub.Win32's user32.bmx. You're just redefining functions that were already extern'd. |
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| What E said: Line 1471 |
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| I figured it might be something like that, but how come when I posted a tutorial here: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=58571 that was originally missing the definition for setclasslonga, it worked on my PC but not TonyG's hence his comment TonyG 'Identifier setclasslonga not found' weird. |
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| Indiepath: Btw, using API specific stuff is going to make a Mac port of your next game a complete nightmare! yeah but it's all in one place (in my TGame object) and I'll make a MacFlag Const and just run some different code to set the icon and add a minimise button etc. (if I can figure out how the hell to do that on a Mac!) |
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| I gotta ask : Why bother with all this API specific stuff? what are you trying to achieve? |
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| well, like I just said, I need an icon in the top left, can't do it without API calls. Need a minimise icon in the top right, again needs API calls. Know any other way to do this in Max, no? Thought so ;-) |
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| I'll make a MacFlag Const and just run some different code to set the icon and add a minimise button etc. No need to set a constant, use compiler directives. |
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| How Extraordinarily useful! |
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