Undefined Equate with PB10 and FF3 with function

James Padgett · April 21, 2011, 07:56:58 AM

I am using a function plagurized from Jose ( many thanks )
This worked fine using PB includes and PB 9 ....
This could be something about Jose's includes since I have never used them before...
I have made the mods to .inc files for PB10 use.. ( I don't think they were required for what my app does but made them anyway )

nifile = GetSpecialFolderLocation ( HWND_FORM1, %CSIDL_APPDATA )

Which generates an Undefined Equate error..
I have selected to use Jose's include files in the project evironment settings..
If I specifically add the two includes that ref %CSIDL_APPDATA in them in the FF_AppStart
#INCLUDE "C:\PBWin10\201winapi\shFolder.INC"
#INCLUDE "C:\PBWin10\201winapi\ShlObj.inc"
I get an error 466 in ... SHLOBJ.INC ' the name is already in use..
If I comment out the shlbj.inc I get ... Error 519 Missing Declaration
If I comment out the shFolder.INC I get ... error 466 ' the name is already in use.
If I commnet them both out and select use PB includes I get Error 524 undefined type in ... Codegen_fsxconf_utility.inc

Function GetSpecialFolderLocation (ByVal hwndOwner As Dword, ByVal nFolder As Long) As String

Local pidl As Dword ' pointer to an item identifier list (PIDL)
Local szPath As Asciiz * %MAX_PATH ' folder's path

If SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(hwndOwner, nFolder, pidl) = %S_OK Then
SHGetPathFromIDList ByVal pidl, szPath
CoTaskMemFree pidl
Function = szPath
End If

End Function

Paul Squires · April 21, 2011, 08:58:09 AM

It appears that the MACRO for SHGetFolderPath is defined twice. Once in ShlObj.inc and a second time in shFolder.inc. I commented out the MACRO in ShlObj.inc and it compiled okay.

You may want to bring this to Jose's attention (if he has not already read this post).

José Roca · April 22, 2011, 11:28:23 PM

They aren't intended to be included together, since if you include shlobj.inc you don't need shfolder.inc for anything (it is a subset of shlobj.inc). Anyway, I will add additional #IF/ENDIFs to both files to avoid conflicts if they are included together.

James Padgett · April 23, 2011, 02:27:30 AM

I guess I wonder if I should add them at all... I haven't used your includes before so I'm kind of in the dark about them..

The function worked as is with PB9 and PB's includes...

José Roca · April 23, 2011, 02:50:51 AM

Just include "shlobj.inc".

James Padgett · June 15, 2011, 07:30:10 AM

OK I only include shlobj.inc but still get:

Error 466 in shlobj.inc: name is already in use
Line 1429: MACRO SHGetPathFromIDList = SHGetPathFromIDListA

A likely conflict is in ...\CODEGEN_FSXCONF_MAIN.bas
Line 66: Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList Lib "Shell32.D....

I have had to comment out the following MACRO's.. is this OK or will it break something else in the future?
' MACRO SHBrowseForFolder
' MACRO BROWSEINFO
' MACRO SHGetPathFromIDList

José Roca · June 15, 2011, 09:21:23 AM

No, it isn't ok. It is the Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList Lib "Shell32.D... in ...\CODEGEN_FSXCONF_MAIN.bas which should be removed. If your code has duplicate declares, you shouldn't use it with my headers.

James Padgett · June 15, 2011, 10:19:51 PM

It is the Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList Lib "Shell32.D... in ...\CODEGEN_FSXCONF_MAIN.bas which should be removed.

So how do I keep FireFly from declaring this?