On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 14:06:00 UTC, rsk82 wrote:
Ok, nevermind, found, it, it was so easy that it simply didn't
have to had an example:
struct WNDCLASSEXW {
UINT cbSize;
UINT style;
WNDPROC lpfnWndProc;
int cbClsExtra;
int cbWndExtra;
HINSTANCE hInstance;
HICON hIcon;
HCURSOR hCursor;
HBRUSH hbrBackground;
LPCWSTR lpszMenuName;
LPCWSTR lpszClassName;
HICON hIconSm;
}
If you find yourself desiring other bindings of the win32 api and
don't want them to define them by hand, a project was started
some time ago by Stewart Gordon that contains an almost complete
set of bindings:
http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi
Set the import directory of your compiler appropriately and use
it like that:
import win32.winuser; //example, where you will probably find
wndclassexw
Additionnally, you should know that SOMETHINGA and SOMETHINGW
means something like ascii and wide chars (UCS-2, so every char
is two bytes instead of one). Normally, the api was intented to
be used without the extra letter at the end:
WNDCLASSEX wndclass; //No suffix: defaults to ascii.
When people compile with the preprocessor Unicode defined, then
all aliases are mapped to their W counterpart. What changes is
how you pass and receive strings.
Keep in mind they must be null terminated (as in C).
The microsoft bunch also defined another macro that would help
you make your code independant of the version used, it is called
TCHAR.
TCHAR * someString; //Will be char * without unicode or wchar
with.
someString = "My window class".toUTFz!( TCHAR * ); //This is how
I use the std library to convert my strings. Try to keep a handle
on strings that might be kept by the OS, to prevent them from
being garbage collected.
WNDCLASSEX wndclass;
...
wndclass.lpszClassName = someString;
Peace,
Phil
