hwnd type error

[TBMan]

Is anyone getting an "error in type definition" when using:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. uses windows;
2.  
3. var
4.   hwnd:HWND;

[cdbc]

Hi
Yes, everybody would!!!!
Pascal is case-IN-sensitive, which means both your variable and type is exactly the same word.
Regards Benny

[ASerge]

If you really want that name, then use

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. var
2.   hwnd: Windows.HWND;

[TBMan]

If you really want that name, then use

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. var
2.   hwnd: Windows.HWND;

Yep. I'm having an off day. I could just change the variable name too. 😆
**edit**

This is what happened to my brain after using ChatGPT to learn C++ and then switch to Pascal and go over using the windows api as I know nothing there. ChatgPT was making a lot of mistakes with Pascal and some issues are still ongoing (getting a clean keypressed routine for instance) and this error slipped by my common sense.

[silvercoder70]

Two thoughts...

With Chatgpt and Pascal. It definitely has problems providing good code. Perhaps it struggled finding code to copy from. I admit to trying some things myself, and it is hardly ever right.

On HWND ... for much of my programming life, whenever I had to deal with handle to a window, I would use hwnd as the variable prefix (Hungarian notation). Though if I really had to use hwnd by itself then I would add an underscore to the end of the name.

[TBMan]

Two thoughts...

With Chatgpt and Pascal. It definitely has problems providing good code. Perhaps it struggled finding code to copy from. I admit to trying some things myself, and it is hardly ever right.

On HWND ... for much of my programming life, whenever I had to deal with handle to a window, I would use hwnd as the variable prefix (Hungarian notation). Though if I really had to use hwnd by itself then I would add an underscore to the end of the name.

Good idea.

I was having it write a Borland graph.h and a graph unit in pascal as wrappers around windows api and it came out ok, but the keyboard was an issue. I didn't start with a mouse unit yet. I'm learning from tinking with that code.