warren@hpindda.HP.COM (Warren Burnett) (11/17/89)
Hi there. I am having a problem wint Manx 3.6a that I hope someone can help me with. I am trying to process RAWKEY events through the console.device routine RawKeyConvert(). To do this, the docs say that I need to declare struct Device *ConsoleDevice; and initialize it from a field in the structure returned by OpenDevice(). That is fine; I have no problems doing that. I am also including the file functions.h so that I don't have to cast all of the OS routine return values. My problem is that in functions.h there is the following declaration: long ConsoleDevice(); Does anyone know what this is? I cannot find any reference to this routine in any documentation that I have (Amiga OS or Manx) or in any of the Manx libraries. For now, I have made my own copy of functions.h with the above line commented out. Is there a reason for this declaration? Thanks. Warren Burnett warren@hpindip%hp-sde.sde.hp.com
acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) (11/22/89)
In article <7450001@hpindda.HP.COM> warren@hpindda.HP.COM (Warren Burnett) writes: }Hi there. I am having a problem wint Manx 3.6a that I hope someone can help }me with. I am trying to process RAWKEY events through the console.device }routine RawKeyConvert(). To do this, the docs say that I need to declare } } struct Device *ConsoleDevice; } }and initialize it from a field in the structure returned by OpenDevice(). }That is fine; I have no problems doing that. Good, the docs are correct. } I am also including the file }functions.h so that I don't have to cast all of the OS routine return }values. My problem is that in functions.h there is the following declaration: } } long ConsoleDevice(); } }Does anyone know what this is? Yeah, it's an error -- functions.h is messed up here. I ran across this bug while working on an old version of VT100. I simply commented the definition out of functions.h and define it in my source modules in the manner that the docs suggest. } I cannot find any reference to this routine }in any documentation that I have (Amiga OS or Manx) or in any of the Manx }libraries. You need it if you're gonna call, e.g., RawKeyConvert(). You initialize it like so: struct IOStdReq ConReq; struct Device *ConsoleDevice; . . . if(OpenDevice("console.device", -1L, &ConReq, 0L)) cleanup("can't open console", 4); ConsoleDevice = ConReq.io_Device; } Warren Burnett } warren@hpindip%hp-sde.sde.hp.com --- Tony Sumrall author of VT100 2.9 (and 2.8a and 2.8 and...) acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!pccuts!acs [ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]
phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan) (11/24/89)
>values. My problem is that in functions.h there is the following declaration: > > long ConsoleDevice(); This is an error...just comment it out, (or delete it) and you'll be fine.
warren@hpindda.HP.COM (Warren Burnett) (11/28/89)
Thanks to everyone who responded to my question. I did what was suggested and commented out the line in functions.h. Warren Burnett warren%hpindip@hp-sde.sde.hp.com