Subj : Borland Builder 6 compile problem with uxtheme.h
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Rainer M. Schmid" rms
Date : Mon Aug 18 2003 03:06 am


When I try to compile the following program with Borland Builder 6 (I
have update 4 installed)

    #include <windows.h>
    #include <uxtheme.h>

    int main(int /*argc*/, char ** /*argv*/)
    {
        return 0;
    }

I get the following error messages:

    C:\Work\tmp>bcc32 main.cpp
    Borland C++ 5.6.4 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2002 Borland
    main.cpp:
    Error E2146 C:\Program Files\Borland\CBuilder6\Include\uxtheme.h 176: Need an
+identifier to declare
    Error E2146 C:\Program Files\Borland\CBuilder6\Include\uxtheme.h 546: Need an
+identifier to declare
    *** 2 errors in Compile ***

I can solve the compile problem if I apply the following patch to
uxtheme.h:

    @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
         TS_MIN,             // minimum size
         TS_TRUE,            // size without stretching
         TS_DRAW,            // size that theme mgr will use to draw part
    -};
    +} foo_themesize;
     //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     //  GetThemePartSize() - returns the specified size of the theme part
     //
    @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
         PO_CLASS,           // property was found in the class section
         PO_GLOBAL,          // property was found in [globals] section
         PO_NOTFOUND         // property was not found
    -};
    +} foo_propertyorigin;

     //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
     //  GetThemePropertyOrigin()


Is this a known problem and is there a workaround available that does
not require changing system headers? Some of our customers want to
compile our sourcecode with Borland Builder 6 and I wonder what we
should tell them to resolve the compile problem (or if we are able to
fix the compile problem in our code without the need for them to do
anything).

Best regards, Rainer

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