Bor to DevC++ prog convert prob

Converting Borland prog to DevC++. Compiled and ran just fine with borland meow.

What is wrong with this?

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                pszFileText = GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwFileSize + 1);

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437 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c invalid conversion from `void*' to `CHAR*'

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pszFileText declared as

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                        LPSTR pszFileText;

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Functions give error of “type”

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test( int a; int b)
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 int test;
....
}

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59 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c ISO C++ forbids declaration of `test' with no type

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changed to

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int test( int a; int b;)

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Takes care of the error. That one fixed but there are others.

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C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c In function `BOOL LoadTextFileToEdit(HWND__*, const TCHAR*)':

 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c In function `BOOL SaveTextFileFromEdit(HWND__*, const TCHAR*)':

591 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c invalid conversion from `void*' to `HBITMAP__*'

 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c In function `LRESULT WndProc(HWND__*, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM)':

 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c In function `LRESULT MDIChildWndProc(HWND__*, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM)':

1794 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.c invalid conversion from `void*' to `HFONT__*'

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More accurately you are porting to MinGW, Functions should be declared with commas separating their arguments, not semicolons. All of the conversion stuff either needs proper casts or to look and find out what the real issue is, such as looking at the function declaration and the typedef that the type comes from.

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Functions should be declared with commas separating their arguments, not semicolons.

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that was a typeo.

ok typecast errors fixed

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4 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\Project2_private.rc In file included from Project2_private.rc
11 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.rc winres.h: No such file or directory.
22 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.rc [Resource error] syntax error
 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\Makefile.win [Build Error]  [../Project2/Project2_private.res] Error 1

line in rc file
#ifndef __BORLANDC__
#include "winres.h"
#endif

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what is the devcpp equivalent? Of winres.h ? Or how to get devcpp to recognize include dir .h files?

winresrc.h

ok

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STYLE DS_MODALFRAME

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getting syntax errors in rc dialog file. looked at examples and they are numbered.

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500 MENU

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why?

and thank you all

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what should be numbered and what should not?

tried renumbering them. keep getting syntax error in resource file with things like "style" "menu" "ltext" etc.

any ideas? numbering them did not work. even though example showed numbers.

...

what is the error?

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LTEXT “....

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error is

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126 C:\Dev-Cpp\Project2\main.rc [Resource error] syntax error

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as one example.

It seems to be all the dialog resource key words that are giving the syntax errors. Could this be missing a library? Or resource compiler?

Looked through the devcpp help file then the forums and faq then asked question here about the syntax error in the resource file. Also looked at the example code that came with devcpp and that example code ran fine but there was no dialog boxes and simple resource files. #included above .h file in .rc file that did not work. Tried numbering all keywords that also did not work

stuck.

Meow!

Does the devcpp 4.9.9.2 need an additional package to work with dialog boxes and resource files?

If so which ones?

Could we see the entire resource file? (Or a larger chunk if it's too long?)

Dev-C++ should work as is, I think.
Also, as for numbers, resource IDs are numbers, but usually they're #define'd in a header. Like:

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IDM_MAINMENU MENU

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Where IDM_MAINMENU is #define'd to a number.

I saw garland thread that said

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Now create an .*rc resource file and declare the menu inside it
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#include <windows.h>
#include "defintions.h"

menu MENU
BEGIN
    POPUP "&File"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "&Open",MY_FILE_OPEN
        MENUITEM "&Close",MY_FILE_CLOSE
    END
END

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declare menu MENU that should work and it did with menu but I get syntax errors from LTEXT STYLE FONT and others.

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#include ”main.h”
#include<winresrc.h>

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IDR_MAINMENU MENU DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
    POPUP "&File"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "&New",                        ID_FILE_NEW
        MENUITEM "&Open...",                    ID_FILE_OPEN
        MENUITEM "Save &As...",                ID_FILE_SAVEAS, GRAYED
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "&Close",                      ID_FILE_CLOSE, GRAYED
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "E&xit",                      ID_FILE_EXIT
    END
    POPUP "&Edit", GRAYED
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "C&ut",                        ID_EDIT_CUT
        MENUITEM "&Copy",                      ID_EDIT_COPY
        MENUITEM "&Paste",                      ID_EDIT_PASTE
    END
    POPUP "&Window", GRAYED
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "&Tile",                      ID_WINDOW_TILE
        MENUITEM "&Cascade",                    ID_WINDOW_CASCADE
    END
    POPUP "&BitMap"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "&NewBitMap",                        ID_FILE_NEWBITMAP
        MENUITEM "&OpenBitMap...",                    ID_FILE_OPENBITMAP
        MENUITEM "Save &As...",                ID_FILE_SAVEASBITMAP
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "&CloseBitMap",                      ID_FILE_CLOSEBITMAP
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "E&xit",                      ID_FILE_EXIT
    END
END

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Here is where the prob is....

IDD_BitMap  DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 50, 50
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | DS_CENTER  | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE
CAPTION “BitMap Editor”

FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"

BEGIN

LTEXT          "Brush:",IDC_STATIC,25,25,20,14
more below that are different just pasted more of the same for this thread as example only but each one gets an error if I comment it out

LTEXT          "Brush:",IDC_STATIC,25,25,20,14
LTEXT          "Brush:",IDC_STATIC,25,25,20,14
....
More of these that get the same error after the above is comment out

    EDITTEXT        IDC_NUMBER,40,265,20,12,ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_NUMBER

LISTBOX        IDC_LIST,7,25,138,106,LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT | LBS_EXTENDEDSEL | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP

    PUSHBUTTON      "&Add",IDC_ADD,150,30,50,14

    PUSHBUTTON      "&Remove",IDC_REMOVE,150,47,50,14
    PUSHBUTTON      "&Clear",IDC_CLEAR,150,63,50,14

 GROUPBOX....

CTEXT....

END

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that was only one of several dialog boxes. Comment out error line and it just moves on the the next STYLE and give error then Caption then font then ltext . If type casting them is the error to what?
I tried Hfont and text and menu and idd_main and some others nothing worked.

also i looked at all the example code with the devcpp and downloaded some other progs which i thought had source code but did not. to look at.

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prog is MDI with several dialogs pushbuttons and bitmaps. also when i put IDC_TEXT infront of text i still get syntax error.
i did try all the ones i could find.

I think I posted the menu code on the garland's thread. After copy/paste/compile the part of your dialog template, I have get some resource errors on my devcpp4.9:

1-. I suppose you have defined the dialog name 'IDD_BitMap' with a value on the definitions file.
2-. On the line where you declare the caption, you have used “ instead " to declare textual value.
3-. I suppose you have also defined in the definitions file the value for IDC_STATIC, IDC_NUMBER, IDC_LIST, IDC_ADD, IDC_REMOVE and IDC_CLEAR.

After that I compiled your code without errors. Sorry for my english if something is bad explained. Take a look to that, I'm shure you should be able to make it run :)

Niara

In the .h file

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//{{NO_DEPENDENCIES}}
// Microsoft Developer Studio generated include file.
// Used by main.rc
//
#define IDR_MAINMENU                    102
#define IDB_BOX                        104
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#define IDC_TEXT                        1000
#define IDC_NUMBER                      1001
#define IDC_LIST                        1002
#define IDC_ADD                        1003
#define IDC_CLEAR                      1004
#define IDC_REMOVE                      1005
#define IDC_SHOWCOUNT                  1006
#define IDC_TEXTB                      1008
....

#define ID_FILE_EXIT                    40001
#define ID_FILE_NEW                    40002
#define ID_FILE_OPEN                    40003
#define ID_FILE_SAVEAS                  40005
#define ID_WINDOW_CASCADE              40008
#define ID_WINDOW_TILE                  40009
#define ID_FILE_CLOSE                  40010
#define ID_FILE_CLOSEALL                40011
#define ID_EDIT_CUT                    40015
#define ID_EDIT_COPY                    40016
#define ID_EDIT_PASTE                  40017

....

#define IDD_BitMap    44000
....

#define    ID_FILE_NEWBITMAP 40020
#define    ID_FILE_OPENBITMAP 40021
#define    ID_FILE_SAVEASBITMAP 40022
#define    ID_FILE_CLOSEBITMAP 40023

// Next default values for new objects
//
#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#ifndef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#define _APS_NEXT_RESOURCE_VALUE        101
#define _APS_NEXT_COMMAND_VALUE        40020
#define _APS_NEXT_CONTROL_VALUE        1000
#define _APS_NEXT_SYMED_VALUE          101
#endif
#endif

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there are lots more where .... is . However in the .c file there is

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#define IDC_MAIN_MDI        101
#define IDC_MAIN_TOOL        102
#define IDC_MAIN_STATUS        103

#define IDC_CHILD_EDIT        101

#define ID_MDI_FIRSTCHILD 50000

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I am wondering if the assigned numbers need to be changed. It compiled fine with meow borland.

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2-. On the line where you declare the caption, you have used " instead " to declare textual value.

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I am not sure how that happened .... I only have one key with a single quote at the bottom and a double quote at the top that shift has to be pressed to get. I think that was a bbs thing.

I get errors from ltext and font and style and caption. About the style I did comment it out then recompile it then uncommented it back and it did not give an error but I do not know why it went to the ltext after that. I did not really do anything. Are there any librarys that I need to include .a libthings ?

Project options win32 gui. 3 files. Compiler opt no no no no . Par null need .a lib here? Directories lib include project2 . Build ops exeout proj2 obout proj2 outfile project2.exe . No makefile

You're using the same resource allocation twice (101). Dev should complain about that, doesn't it?

Ok changed all of them to different numbers. Still spit the same error on ltext. So then I took a look at each of the lines that the errors came up on when commented out and on to next line. The ltext lines had idc_static in them and there was no idc_static in the .h file. Borland has that defined in one of their .h include files. So I added idc_static to the .h file and added .a libs ../lib/libwin32k.a and ../lib/libcomctl32.a

Got it working. Seems to work ok. So idc_static is not defined in devcpp? .h include files?

It may take some time to get to know this compiler.

IDC_STATIC is an arbitrary value, you can use

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#define MYSTATICCONTROLS 1000//here 1000 is also an arbitrary value
//then you can do:
LTEXT "Brush:",MYSTATICCONTROLS,25,25,20,14

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I think that the idea of setting up a common defined value for those controls is because usually you won't access them; instead of that, a button need it's own value to be able to work with it via the WM_COMMAND message. Then, if you know that no other control have an id=0 and that you won't acces to some controls, then you can declare them as

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LTEXT "Brush:",0,25,25,20,14

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Niara