#include "wx/platform.h"
+// strict type checking to detect conversion from HFOO to HBAR at compile-time
#ifndef STRICT
#define STRICT 1
#endif
-// don't define min() and max() as macros, they conflict with standard C++ ones
+// this macro tells windows.h to not define min() and max() as macros: we need
+// this as otherwise they conflict with standard C++ functions
#ifndef NOMINMAX
#define NOMINMAX
#endif // NOMINMAX
+
+// before including windows.h, define version macros at (currently) maximal
+// values because we do all our checks at run-time anyhow
+#ifndef WINVER
+ // the only exception to the above is MSVC 6 which has a time bomb in its
+ // headers: they warn against using them with WINVER >= 0x0500 as they
+ // contain only part of the declarations and they're not always correct, so
+ // don't define WINVER for it at all as this allows everything to work as
+ // expected both with standard VC6 headers (which define WINVER as 0x0400
+ // by default) and headers from a newer SDK (which may define it as 0x0500)
+ #if !defined(__VISUALC__) || (__VISUALC__ >= 1300)
+ #define WINVER 0x0600
+ #endif
+#endif
+
+#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
+ #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600
+#endif
+
+
#include <windows.h>
#ifdef __WXWINCE__
#include <shellapi.h>
#endif // __WXWINCE__
+
+// #undef the macros defined in winsows.h which conflict with code elsewhere
#include "wx/msw/winundef.h"
+
// types DWORD_PTR, ULONG_PTR and so on might be not defined in old headers but
// unfortunately I don't know of any standard way to test for this (as they're
// typedefs and not #defines), so simply overwrite them in any case in Win32