FlashWindowEx

Hey everyone, I'm trying to use FlashWindowEx(), but when I declare a FLASHWINFO object, the compiler doesn't recognize it and gives me an error. I've got <winsock2.h> included, and I also tried including <windows.h> at one point, but to no avail. What am I missing? On MSDN it just says to include <windows.h>, but that's not doing the trick for me

have you done
#declare WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN ?
That might cause it not to show up as it takes out many functions

No, I haven't. In fact, I've never done so in my life Any other ideas?

#define WINVER 0x0500
#include <windows.h>

Ok thanks, I'll try that when I get back to the school computer. But what does 0x500 mean?

That means that 5 is the minimum Windows version you want to support. WINVER defaults to 0x0400, which supports WinNT 4 and Win95. 0x0500 needs 2k and 98, 0x0510 ME and XP.

.... 0x? thats HEX code prefix, never would have thought it could define a windows version...

That's just the way the windows headers were written. You could write
#define WINVER 1280
as well, the compiler wouldn't know the difference.

It's declared in winuser.h And you must make sure to link with the user32.lib.

What compiler are you using?

Hmm, take a look at this:

Code:

--------------------Configuration: Fillit - Win32 Debug--------------------
Compiling...
main.cpp
NOTE: WINVER has been defined as 0x0500 or greater which enables
Windows NT 5.0 and Windows 98 features. When these headers were released,
Windows NT 5.0 beta 1 and Windows 98 beta 2.1 were the current versions.
For this release when WINVER is defined as 0x0500 or greater, you can only
build beta or test applications.  To build a retail application,
set WINVER to 0x0400 or visit http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk
to see if retail Windows NT 5.0 or Windows 98 headers are available.
See the SDK release notes for more information.

Under this, I get the same errors as before

Mithoric:
I tried including <winuser.h>, but same results. Also, I think MSDN said that although it's in winuser.h, you should include windows.h and it will automatically be included. I'm using MSVC 6.0 Pro, so user32.lib is automatically linked.

Any more ideas?...

Go to microsoft.com and download the latest Platform SDK, yours is outdated.

@#^$&# I hate that search feature...

microsoft.com -> download centre -> Product/Techonology: Platform SDK -> No keywords -> Go
Results: 424 results, all of them samples, examples, help files, and PocketPC sdk's.

-> Back -> Keyword: win32 -> Go
Results: 64 results, all of them samples, examples, helpfiles, and PocketPC sdk's.

-> Back -> Keyword: (your keyword here) -> Go
Results: (x) results, all of them samples, examples, helpfiles, and PocketPC sdk's, where (-2) < x < (9999999999)

Any better place to get it?

Use a real search engine. Beware - it's massive. You could just copy the definition from the documentation.

*blows up microsoft's search engine*
Google pwns all! And you too, anonytmouse. But the filesize doesn't Oh well. It's slowly downloading.

Google
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/...sdk/sdkupdate/
Requires IE though, for what, I do not know.