LoadIcon, LoadCursor

[rdc]

I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, and I found it out through a bit of trial and error. This no longer works:

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        .hIcon         = LoadIcon( null, IDI_APPLICATION )
        .hCursor       = LoadCursor( null, IDC_ARROW )

I looked at the include file and it appears that Load* takes a string. So I tried:

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        .hIcon         = LoadIcon( null, IDI_"")
        .hCursor       = LoadCursor( null, "" )

And this seems to work.

My question is, what if you want to load a diifferent stock icon or cursor?

[v1ctor]

You have to use the BYVAL modifier now, it was added to make byval string params more safe, as they can be used in FB functions too since 0.13. If a user had by mistake "declare sub foo( byval bar as string): foo 1234" it was accepted before, now, to support the M$ Win API quirks that allow pointers and literals others than NULL to be passed to pointer arguments, the BYVAL modifier has to be used to keep the compiler quiet.