On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Martin Smat wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Martin Smat wrote:
Yes, and that is the point. Where you get the right size from? Normally
you use sizeof(STRUCTURE) but this won't work for older Windows versions
where you need to specify smaller size (without the new properties). Or do
you know the sizes of all structures by hearth?
No. But let me ask it differently.
What would a Visual C programmer do ? He has only the current headers, so
you are
saying that simply his programs won't run on older windowses, and that's it
?
He also will have to do some effort to make sure his apps will run on older
windowses.
Or he ships a newer comtrl.dll with his app...
You are right.
So the conclusion of this discussion is that FPC will support the newest
structures and if the programmer needs to use it in some older versions he
must do the appropriate changes himself?
Yes.
It is not a big problem for me but
in this case Lazarus (Win32 interface) will contain some redefinitions of
this structures or will assign some magic constants into the cbSize
parameters.
I think the latter would be best.
We can always insert the constants directly in the windows unit, so everyone
benefits.
Michael.
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