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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Problem with Think C and Polygons!
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Date: 15 Jun 91 05:02:09 GMT
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In article <13974.2857e2a1@ecs.umass.edu>, farmer@ecs.umass.edu (THE MAD MUSKRAT) writes:
> In Quickdraw.h the pascal function OpenPoly is defined, but the rest of the 
> polygon functions aren't.  I realize that openpoly is the only function that 
> returns a value, but the other functions won't work.  If I use ClosePoly to 
> end the polygon definition I get a compiler error: Invalid use of inline 
> function.  What does that mean??
> 
> The code looks like:
> 
> void LoadLevel (level, theWell)
> int level;
> PolyHandle theWell[];
> {
> int notDone = 1;
> Handle res;
> res = GetResource ('LEVL', level);
> if (!res) exit(1);
> for (segments=0; notDone; segments++) {
>  theWell[segments] = OpenPoly();
>  MoveTo(*(*res+(8*segments)),*(*res+(8*segments+1)));
>  LineTo(*(*res+(8*segments+2)),*(*res+(8*segments+3)));
>  LineTo(*(*res+(8*segments+4)),*(*res+(8*segments+5)));
>  LineTo(*(*res+(8*segments+6)),*(*res+(8*segments+7)));
>  ClosePoly;
   ^^^^^^^^^
   Syntax Error:  Missing parens (). Attempted to use function address as ?.

Why couldn't they have simply said that the function parens are missing?

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