I just had great success migrating some of my code from using oldwinapi to
using the newer winm module. **Much applause for the author of winim** ! ! ! !
! ! ! !
Mostly it was changing identifiers back to their originals as published by msdn.
Also since my project does not use unicode (nor utf8) in any way, I needed to
compile using the nim option:
> -d:winascii|
> ---|---
To get the result to link edit when cross compiling from Linux to MS binary, I
changed a line (about #11) in the ---/.nimble/pkgs/winim-2.5.1/winim/inc winim
package (after you install it) from:
> const winimPrivateDir = parentDir(currentSourcePath()) & "/../lib/"
to:
> const winimPrivateDir = parentDir(currentSourcePath()) & r"..lib"
Below is a list of the changes I had to make (to **MY** sources) during the
migration. This no doubt needs to be extended by other programmer's
experiences. Please feel free to do so.
oldwinapi winim module comment
------------- ------------- --------------- ---------------------
LPITEMIDLIST LPCITEMIDLIST inc/objbase.nim
HINST HINSTANCE inc/windef.nim
WINUINT UINT inc/windef.nim
TopLeft.x left inc/windef.nim IN RECT
TopLeft.y top inc/windef.nim IN RECT
BottomRight.x right inc/windef.nim IN RECT
BottomRight.y bottom inc/windef.nim IN RECT
TOPENFILENAME OPENFILENAME inc/commdlg.nim
flags Flags inc/commdlg.nim in OPENFILENAME
TLOGFONT LOGFONT inc/wingdi.nim
lfItalic lfItalic inc/wingdi.nim cast to BYTE
TCHOOSEFONT TCHOOSEFONT inc/commdlg.nim NOTE the T prefix is
kept.
Had used UncheckedArray[RGBQUAD] instead of array[0..0,RGBQUAD] in my code
to solve a problem
better solved by {.boundChecks: off.}
make sure 4th parameter of CreateDIBSection is of type: ptr pointer and
just just pointer
When using SendMessage, it may be necessary to coerce the 3rd param into
WPARAM whenever
that param is an int (e.g. any kind of HANDLE). This is because HANDLE is
int whereas
WPARAM is uint32 (when winimCpu32)
See above, but for 4th SendMessage param LPARAM
In SendMessage(---,WM_CTLCOLOREDIT,---,---) return value had to coerce
HBRUSH into LRESULT, because
HBRUSH was HANDLE is int but LRESULT is LONG_PTR is int32 (when winimCpu32)
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