Aliased types?

[Hi-Toro]

I don't urgently need this, but I had this idea while trying to (unsuccessfully) convert dsound.h (if anyone's done it, please let me know!) -- the ability to define 'aliases' for types used in various APIs. For example:

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Alias HANDLE .l
Alias HWND .l
Alias BOOL .b

; ... etc...

mywindow.HWND = WindowFromPoint_ (BLAH BLAH BLAH)

; mywindow is then a .l handle...

Might be useful for porting of sources from other languages/APIs, so you don't have to keep checking for the 'PB equivalent' type while translating sources...

[mr daniel reed]

Hitorro check this out
I found a a way to accomplish this using macros,

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Macro HWND
    l
EndMacro

Global hMyWnd.HWND

I know, it looks horrible, but it works!

[Rescator]

Yeah no kidding, it's starting to look like C *laughs*.

[mr daniel reed]

It'd be great if they would make it a define macro instead.
Like:

#Define HWND .l

This would be a hell of alot cleaner than my previous post.

[DoubleDutch]

It can be done on one line though - maybe neater?

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Macro HWND : l : EndMacro


a.HWND=4
b=3
c= a+b
Debug c

Nested Macros would make it look nicer, you then make an...

Alias(HWND,l)

macro!

[remi_meier]

I would like to see this too. With macros there is a big problem at the
moment. When I try to add the type 'i' (for a dynamic integer type),
with a macro like

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CompilerIf #Is32bit
Macro i
  l
EndMacro
CompilerElse
Macro i
  q
EndMacro
CompilerEndIf

I mustn't use the variable name "i", "q", "l" anymore because of things
like

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For i = 0 to 10
  For l = 0 to 20
  Next
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