Re: Needed Help with Gtk+ 2.8, Gtkmm 2.8, and .Net 2005

[Allen <allen saucier cas-inc com>]

Thank you Frank,

I had NO idea that the windows.h file was such a problem.  & I'd NEVER 
thought of it but I have had issues with it in the past. 

And I tried the #undef max       and it WORKED!!!!!!  Beautiful, another 
miracle.  Thank you Frank.

The boy from Alabama is happy now! :-)

Frank Naumann wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > > This is a DEFINITE BUG.  So how, this max function, void max( const
> > > Glib::RefPtr<Coverage>& other) const;  MUST already be defined as a
> > > try C macro, as the error states.  Therefore there is a conflict
> > > somewhere.
> >
> > Yes, you are including something that is #defining max, before you are
> > including the gtkmm header. This is namespace pollution.
> >
> > You could try
> > #undef max
> > before including the gtkmm header.
>
> Yes, I already fighted a lot with such problems. The problem are the 
> windows header files (windows.h). This header is polluted with lot of 
> defines, max is only one. It's for sure very ugly and the source of 
> lot of problems.
>
> I personally ended up to include the windows header at last (after ALL 
> other headers). Best is for sure to not include the windows.h at all 
> or to minimize the usage of windows.h. There was also one case I 
> needed to #undef something.
>
>
> Regards,
> Frank

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Sincerely, Allen

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