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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Simple Think C question
Message-ID: <669@newave.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 91 01:29:32 GMT
References: <0blpRGq00WB34DLlpM@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <0blpRGq00WB34DLlpM@andrew.cmu.edu> jp48+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Pace) writes:
> I'm working my way through the "Macintosh C Programming Primer" and I've
> bombed on the Hello, World #2 program.  I get the error "invalid declaration"
> when I precompile.  The offending line seems to be:

>   WindowPtr   gHelloWindow;

I typed it in, and other than converting the rest of the program to
Standard-C, it worked OK on Think C 4.0.  Since it is short, try
retyping the file.  Otherwise, select the line before through the
line after the offending line and delete it.  Sometimes "hidden
characters" can get into you file.

At any rate, here is my file hello.c:

---CUT-HERE---

WindowPtr	gHelloWindow;

void ToolBoxInit( void )
{
	InitGraf( &thePort );
	InitFonts();
	FlushEvents( everyEvent, 0 );
	InitWindows();
	InitMenus();
	TEInit();
	InitDialogs( 0L );
	InitCursor();
}

void WindowInit( void )
{
	gHelloWindow = GetNewWindow( 400, 0L, -1L );
	ShowWindow( gHelloWindow );
	SetPort( gHelloWindow );
	MoveTo( 30, 50 );
	DrawString( "\pHello, World" );
}

void main( void )
{
	ToolBoxInit();
	WindowInit();
	while( !Button() )
		;
}

---CUT-HERE---

-john-

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