[fpc-pascal] MSG variable type, Windows GUI

[Luiz Américo]

Urbansound wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I encountered an FPC Win32, tutorial that uses the a declaration of 
> variable "msg", declared as a MSG type, shown below.
> 
> Dev-Pas IDE, FPC 2.00 gives an "error in type definition" and I find no 
> doc references to MSG, variable type.  Was this an earlier convention in 
> FPC and if so, how was it replaced?
> 

Previous version of fpc allowed this construct while newer not
use Message:msg instead of msg:msg and rename msg in the line below of that.

> 
> 
> [clip]
> program Win32_Source03;
> uses  windows;
> const
>  AppName = 'Win32/ FPC - Source 03';
> 
> VAR
>  active : BOOLEAN;
>  msg : MSG;
>  hWindow,msg : hwnd;
> [end clip]
> 

  active : BOOLEAN;
  message : MSG;
  hWindow,msg1 : hwnd;

this should work

Luiz