Re: C2275: illegal use of this type as an expression? It's a DWORD?

From:
 kilik3000@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:02:15 -0000
Message-ID:
<1181127735.796444.253440@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 6, 3:49 am, "SvenC" <S...@community.nospam> wrote:

Hi,

kilik3...@gmail.com wrote:

I'm trying out some of the sample code on Raymond Chen's blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/29/54728.aspx

Unfortunately I can't get the following snippet of code to compile:

Here is the compiler output:
error C2275: 'DWORD' : illegal use of this type as an expression see
declaration of 'DWORD'
error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier
'dwTimeToNextTick'
error C2065: 'dwTimeToNextTick' : undeclared identifier

I'm using the Win32 project template in VS 2005.


Have you added #include <windows.h> ?

--
SvenC


Yup...I have one file in the project based on the following scratch
program:

#define STRICT
#include <windows.h>
#include <windowsx.h>
#include <ole2.h>
#include <commctrl.h>
#include <shlwapi.h>

HINSTANCE g_hinst; /* This application's
HINSTANCE */
HWND g_hwndChild; /* Optional child window
*/

/*
 * OnSize
 * If we have an inner child, resize it to fit.
 */
void
OnSize(HWND hwnd, UINT state, int cx, int cy)
{
    if (g_hwndChild) {
        MoveWindow(g_hwndChild, 0, 0, cx, cy, TRUE);
    }
}

/*
 * OnCreate
 * Applications will typically override this and maybe even
 * create a child window.
 */
BOOL
OnCreate(HWND hwnd, LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs)
{
    return TRUE;
}

/*
 * OnDestroy
 * Post a quit message because our application is over when the
 * user closes this window.
 */
void
OnDestroy(HWND hwnd)
{
    PostQuitMessage(0);
}

/*
 * PaintContent
 * Interesting things will be painted here eventually.
 */
void
PaintContent(HWND hwnd, PAINTSTRUCT *pps)
{
}

/*
 * OnPaint
 * Paint the content as part of the paint cycle.
 */
void
OnPaint(HWND hwnd)
{
    PAINTSTRUCT ps;
    BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);
    PaintContent(hwnd, &ps);
    EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);
}

/*
 * OnPrintClient
 * Paint the content as requested by USER.
 */
void
OnPrintClient(HWND hwnd, HDC hdc)
{
    PAINTSTRUCT ps;
    ps.hdc = hdc;
    GetClientRect(hwnd, &ps.rcPaint);
    PaintContent(hwnd, &ps);

}

/*
 * Window procedure
 */
LRESULT CALLBACK
WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT uiMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch (uiMsg) {

    HANDLE_MSG(hwnd, WM_CREATE, OnCreate);
    HANDLE_MSG(hwnd, WM_SIZE, OnSize);
    HANDLE_MSG(hwnd, WM_DESTROY, OnDestroy);
    HANDLE_MSG(hwnd, WM_PAINT, OnPaint);
    case WM_PRINTCLIENT: OnPrintClient(hwnd, (HDC)wParam); return 0;
    }

    return DefWindowProc(hwnd, uiMsg, wParam, lParam);
}

BOOL
InitApp(void)
{
    WNDCLASS wc;

    wc.style = 0;
    wc.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
    wc.cbClsExtra = 0;
    wc.cbWndExtra = 0;
    wc.hInstance = g_hinst;
    wc.hIcon = NULL;
    wc.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW + 1);
    wc.lpszMenuName = NULL;
    wc.lpszClassName = "Scratch";

    if (!RegisterClass(&wc)) return FALSE;

    InitCommonControls(); /* In case we use a common
control */

    return TRUE;
}

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hinst, HINSTANCE hinstPrev,
                   LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nShowCmd)
{
    MSG msg;
    HWND hwnd;

    g_hinst = hinst;

    if (!InitApp()) return 0;

    if (SUCCEEDED(CoInitialize(NULL))) {/* In case we use COM */

        hwnd = CreateWindow(
            "Scratch", /* Class Name */
            "Scratch", /* Title */
            WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, /* Style */
            CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, /* Position */
            CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, /* Size */
            NULL, /* Parent */
            NULL, /* No menu */
            hinst, /* Instance */
            0); /* No special parameters
*/

        ShowWindow(hwnd, nShowCmd);

        while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) {
            TranslateMessage(&msg);
            DispatchMessage(&msg);
        }

        CoUninitialize();
    }

    return 0;
}

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