Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 03:15:01 +0100

From: David Symmonds
Subject: SDL Typedef Structs

Hi, Thanks for the SDL libraries, I have been using them for about a year
now and they are really brilliant. One thing that I have just found whilst
using them through C++ (and needing forward declarations) is that when you
typedef structs you sometimes use

typedef struct Name
{
...
}Name;

e.g. SDL_Surface


and other times use

typedef struct
{
...
}Name;


e.g. SDL_Rect

The first type works fine, when I define a header file I can just put
'struct Name;' at the top and use the Name throughout. However, the second
type is harder to use in a header, and I haven't found a way yet, other than
to include 'SDL.h' in the header file (undesirable). Would there be any harm
in changing the definition of SDL_Rect and such like to the second form?

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/SDL_keyboard.h b/include/SDL_keyboard.h
index b45080ed3..263d198ac 100644
--- a/include/SDL_keyboard.h
+++ b/include/SDL_keyboard.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ extern "C" {
 		An international character..
 	}
  */
-typedef struct {
+typedef struct SDL_keysym {
 	Uint8 scancode;			/* hardware specific scancode */
 	SDLKey sym;			/* SDL virtual keysym */
 	SDLMod mod;			/* current key modifiers */