CreateWindow and PBCC

[Chris Holbrook]

Attempting to compile some code with PBCC V5 which compiles OK with PBCC V4, I get an error in COMMCTRL.INC when it tries to reference the function CreateWindow which is declared inside WIN32API.INC conditionally thus:

#IF %DEF(%CCWIN)
    FUNCTION CreateWindow....

My source code has not changed. I can't find a reference to %CCWIN in the help. Have I missed something?

[Richard Angell]

Yes, need to search in he include for comments ...

In the Win32API.inc in the header comments it says:
[QUOTE]
' If you are using the PowerBASIC Console Compiler for Windows, several of
' the GDI functions have been commented out so that the code will not be
' added to your programs. If you need to access these functions you will
' need to add the line:
'
' %CCWIN = 1
'
' Before the #INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC" line. This will re-enable those calls
' for your PB/CC application.
[ /QUOTE]

[Chris Holbrook]

Thank you Mr Angell.

This is an "own goal" in fact - the V4.03 PBWIN32.INC also has the note about %CCWIN. (although curiously the V4.3 header has:

Last Update: 21 February 2005

whereas the V5.0 header has:

Last Update: 27 January 2005

Of course these dates could make perfect sense if the V4.03 development branched the WIN32API.INC file on 21st February 2005! But I digress...)

So my V4.03 compiler must have been set up to use another version of the WIN32API.INC file, and compiled my "wrong" source code without a murmur.

[Fred Harris]

Hi Chris,

If you use CreateWindowEx instead of the older CreateWindow, which, if memory serves, is macro'ed to CreateWindowEx anyway, at least hello, world type apps compile 'as is' with CC5. I just tried it to see if anything changed in that regard with CC5 because that is what I had found with CC4 and windows gui programs. Of course, you'll get a console too!

[Chris Holbrook]

If you use CreateWindowEx instead of the older CreateWindow

Thanks for the info. In fact it was COMMCTRL.INC which was using CreateWindow, probably best if I don't change it.