Former user and beta tester saying hello!

[Dave Biggs]

This works too..

If CLNG(@TB.dwItemSpec) = -1 Then WinBeep 300,200

[jim zarifis]

Hi all,
I'm impressed! My login info from the last time I logged in was still valid! I think the last time I was here was February 2004.
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[Dale Yarker]

Kraft makes (and sells) Parkay, cows make butter (indirectly).

[José Roca]

> Why declare the variable as a DWORD pointer when a LONG would have been sufficient?

DWORD_PTR is not a pointer (why have they added...

[Rodney Hicks]

Because sometimes when a button or something is clicked it returns 0. For example %STN_CLICKED=0. There may be others.
Because the week they did...

[Gary Beene]

Hey Dale!
I can't stop thinking about it! I like to see the logic of a situation - it helps me to remember it the next time.

Why...

[Rodney Hicks]

Well, perhaps because a DWORD cannot be -1 and it is simply telling the process that it doesn't have to try and find machine code for the next operation,...

[Dale Yarker]

"convoluted" ?

MS documentation, Stuart's demo, or Kurt's demo???

CommCtl.inc defines dwItemSpec as dword. MS may...

[Gary Beene]

So, that brings up another question.

From MSDN the type give for dwItemSpec

 DWORD_PTR dwItemSpec;

So when I use this...

[Gary Beene]

It seems like an awfully convoluted way to simply return a -1, to indicate that the toolbar was clicked but not on a button. Surely there's more to i...

[Kurt Kuzba]

Pointers!

#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
    LOCAL DWx AS DWORD, PLx AS LONG POINTER

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[Gary Beene]

Yep, that clears it up. Thanks!

But, I would like to have seen the "-1" documented in MSDN as the response for right clicking on...

[Dale Yarker]

32 bits all set to "1".

Looked at as a LONG is -1

Looked at as a DWORD is 4294967295.

Does that clear...

[Gary Beene]

Jose/Stuart,
Yes, but what does it mean? I might have expected @TB.dwItemSpec to return 0 or -1, meaning no button was clicked.

[Stuart McLachlan]

#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

    DIM x AS DWORD
    DIM y AS LONG
    x = 4294967295

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