[fpc-devel]X lib

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Johan Blok wrote:

> I programmed some stuff in C for X, now I want to convert it to pascal.
> 
> I did a very small program, but for every macro in C I had to write a
> function, or I have to use a long 
>  expression that's repeated very often (for example ScreenOfDisplay). In
> xlib.pp all #defines from C are 
> comments.
> 
> Is there allready a unit with all this #defines rewritten as functions?

No. In principle this should be done in the xlib unit itself.
Feel free to start doing that :-)

> 
> FPC supports some macro's, but only inside the unit where you defined
> them, if I understand it right.
> 
> This makes very little sense, in my opinion, this type of macro's are
> almost useless.

As far as I know, no-one uses them.

> 
> Why can't FPC support using macro's also outside the unit?

You better use inlined functions for such things.

Michael.