Re: 1.21 lib compile errs MS VC++ 6.0

["Tom Hilinski" <hilinski@lamar.colostate.edu>]

These messages are typecast problems generated when using the #define STRICT. This generates type-safety msgs from the MS Windows #includes.

The best way to handle this is to modify the library source to use static_cast in each of these instances. E.g.

HBRUSH brush = static_cast<HBRUSH>(blah blah);

If you want to ignore the strict type checking, try using 
#undef STRICT

(at least that works for the Borland compiler.)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Beman Dawes <beman@esva.net>
To: V-GUI Mailing List <vgui-discuss@other.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:16 AM
Subject: 1.21 lib compile errs MS VC++ 6.0


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| ---- compiler messages  -----
| 
| Vbtncmd.cpp
| C:\V\Srcwin\Vbtncmd.cpp(338) : error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from
| 'struct HBRUSH__ *' to 'struct HPEN__ *'
|         Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
| reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
| C:\V\Srcwin\Vbtncmd.cpp(340) : error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from
| 'struct HBRUSH__ *' to 'struct HPEN__ *'
|         Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
| reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
| C:\V\Srcwin\Vbtncmd.cpp(439) : error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot
| convert from 'void *' to 'struct HBITMAP__ *'
|         Conversion from 'void*' to pointer to non-'void' requires an
| explicit cast
| 
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