Thanks, that I can understand. I will give it a go, and see how far I get ;-)
Kind regards -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Maebe Sent: 22. februar 2008 11:10 To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] MacOS and Opaque types On 22 Feb 2008, at 11:04, Bent Normann Olsen wrote: > I'm new to Mac development environment, and I was looking thru the > CoreMIDI/MIDIServices.h, to see how much work it's going to take (at > least > maybe partially) to implement some of the functions to own projects. > I hit > the wall with some typedef, for example "struct OpaqueMIDIClient * > MIDIClientRef", and I now understand that Apple do not always want > developers to know what is behind some type definitions. Is this true? Yes. This is not Apple-specific, this is a basic way of information hiding which is regularly used in C. > How can one come about this? I'm really open to any suggestions. You don't need the contents (C programs don't have access to them either). As far as the declaration goes in Pascal, just do something like type POpaqueMIDIClient = ^OpaqueMIDIClient; OpaqueMIDIClient = record end; var MIDIClientRef: POpaqueMIDIClient; Or you could even declare MIDIClientRef as a plain untyped pointer (although you'll lose some type checking when using {$t+} in that case). Jonas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
