From: Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM>
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Subject: Re: d_button_proc - errors in C++, but not C?
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:25:20 GMT
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On 23 Feb 2000 14:11:37 +0000, Ian Miller <itmiller AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
wrote:

>Riddler02 AT aol DOT com writes:
>
>> runs perfectly.  However, if I change its name to EX13.CPP (or anything.cpp 
>> for that matter), I get the following error at every occurrence of the 
>> d_button_proc function when I try to compile:
>
>:)
>
>That's because it's written in C not in C++.
>One *can* write code to compile under both languages,
>but this Allegro example evidently has not been written that way.
>
>It's not strange, it's just not C++.

There are C++ wrappers for the Allegro DIALOG manager.
Find them at the Allegro addons page.

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