winuser.h

[AggrorJorn]

After doing a rebuild of my entire project I get several errors in the winuser.h.

 

I have never touched that file nor have I updated the project via the leadwerks updater. I checked out an older version via GIT but the problem remains. Any idea what this could be?

 

typedef struct tagINPUT {
DWORD type;
union
{
 MOUSEINPUT	 mi;
 KEYBDINPUT	 ki;
 HARDWAREINPUT hi;
};
} INPUT, *PINPUT, FAR* LPINPUT;
WINUSERAPI
UINT
WINAPI
SendInput(
__in UINT cInputs,					 // number of input in the array
__in_ecount(cInputs) LPINPUT pInputs, // array of inputs
__in int cbSize);					 // sizeof(INPUT)

[Furbolg]

Hi Aggror,

 

it's a standard windows header file.

 

Try to Clean Solution + Rebuild Solution and restart Visual Studio before doing this.

[shadmar]

When using git checking out branches, I always have to close VS2010, git checkout, open VS2010, clean solution, rebuild.

[AggrorJorn]

Thanks for the answer guys. Unfortunately, it hasn't gone away. I tried the following steps.

 

I closed visual studio.

I did a hard reset on the last commit where everything worked.

I closed GIT (just to be sure)

I opened up visual studio

I cleaned the solution and did a rebuild

[Furbolg]

Strange, the winuser.h is an windows header, i don't think it's contained in leadwerks.

 

Did you tried to restart your computer ?

[AggrorJorn]

Yeah I tried it with no result.

 

I have lost to much time allready so I am going to try and create a new project and add all the code manually.

[AggrorJorn]

I found it.

 

After recreating a new project and copying everything over I still got the error. Then I spotted something in a class:

#ifndef ENGINE_INPUT
#define INPUT

I have my own class for handling input. The define segment doesn't define my class because I forgot to give it a different name. Coincidental, input is already used by the winuser.h, causing the error.

[Furbolg]

You should name your #define macros like XXX_INPUT, where XXX stands for your project or your favorite name.

 

That's also a good scenario why c++ programmer use namespace and why "using namespace" shouldn't be in header files (if your #define would be a const int input = 0x01 for example and windows.h (or some other header) using the same variable name, you would have similiar problems).

 

Good to see, you could resolve your problem *cheers*

[AggrorJorn]

Don't my class names also have to be prefixed with "XXX_" as well then?

[Furbolg]

Nope, for that case you have namespaces