Hi,
I'm learning the win32 api and i keep getting errors at one of my function prototypes where I'm trying to pass a reference variable of type POINT.
Here are the error messages.
error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before '&'
error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before '&'
error C2059: syntax error : '&'
error C2059: syntax error : ')'
Prototype
The function.
HWND CreateButton (HWND hwnd, wchr-t* name, int identifier, POINT& pt);
{
….
}
I've played around referencing both classes and structs 20 min before I wrote this post. Just in case i misunderstood something and massively failed. They worked and compiled perfectly.
Question is what I'm doing wrong.
Learning the win32 api & keep getting errors
In the function you should not have a ";" at the end of it.
The function.
Other than that your code seems fine enough to compile. You may want to check your compiling settings. Sometimes, people tend to compile C++ code with the C compiler.Â
Do ensure that you did not commit such a mistake.
Learning the win32 api & keep getting errors
error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before 'type'
When programming in Visual Studio, if you happen to run across this error while trying to compile C code, one thing to check on is whether or not you're declaring your local variables inline. For whatever reason, Visual Studio hates this and issues a syntax error for the next line of code. One that's of no use whatsoever in helping to figure out what to do.
So, for example, if you have a function like:
int foo(int x)
{
   assert(x != 0);
   int y = 4/x;
   return y;
}
You would need to rewrite your code like this:
int foo(int x)
{
   int y;
   assert(x != 0);
   y = x/4;
   return y;
}
error C2059: syntax error : 'type'
The data type you're passing into calculate_total is wrong. C++ is seeing it as a pointer to an int. You're passing in a two dimensional array. You have to make the input type for your calculate_total function match the type of your array.
Also, all those extra []'s are invalid syntax. When passing in a variable defined as an array, pass in only the variable name.
example
// Invalid function call
f(myArray[]);
// Valid function call
f(myArray);
Inside of the actual function, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to modify an element of exam1, exam2, and exam3 to the value of exam[100][3]?
You're also missing the declaration of the array int exam[100][3]. I don't see it anywhere in your code.
And in the return of calculate_total, your return statement is malformed. You can only return one value, unlike Python where that would return a triple containing three elements.
