On 26 Mar 2003, Jon David Sawyer wrote:
> I seem to remember being able to declare something like: > MyArray = Array of Byte; > > Useing "MyArray" as an easy way to get a pointer to a memory location. > > Now if I do something similar: tQPixelArray = Array of tQPixel; I get a > compiler error telling me it Expected [ and got Array. > > Is there any way of being able to declare an array without a range? Only in the 1.1 development compiler. The 1.0 compiler doesn't support dynamic arrays. > > If not is there a index larger than WORD that will work with arrays? Yes. > QWord will not work and for some reason the compiler does not recognize > DWord Qword is 64 bit, that will not work, but Cardinal (=DWord) should work. But you can just as well use the 'pointer math' approach and declare Type tQPixelArray = ^tQPixel; var Arr : TQPixelArray; Then GetMem(Arr,1000*SizeOf(tqPixel)); Arr[0]:=.. Arr[1]:=.. will do what you expect. Only the memory management you must do yourself. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
