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Some users have been displaying code like this
I'm also using the latest beta, but I keep getting error messages saying: "Native types can't be used with pointers"

While I completely understand, I fail see why some users can use native types with pointers, and some cannot.

Is there a switch somewhere that escapes me?

This is old code and the native types must be removed. The code then works as before.
It also makes no sense to specify these, as it is a pointer.

Some users have been displaying code like this

Older PB versions allowed this, so you might find these things in legacy code.

mk-soft wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:52 pm This is old code and the native types must be removed. The code then works as before.
It also makes no sense to specify these, as it is a pointer.

I agree 100%.. it's just that the last 3 or 4 times I've downloaded 'sample' code, it contains these older pointers, but the poster has indicated that they are on PB 6.20 betas, and I can't figure out why they don't seem to get these error messages.

Thanks for confirming what I thought.

It's a new check from 6.20 beta 4 as it was missing.

Fred wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 5:31 pm It's a new check from 6.20 beta 4 as it was missing.

This check has been included in PB since I started working with it. I'm still on PB 6.00 Windows.

Yes, it's been added for interface as well in 6.20b4.