Short global variables

[jj2007]

Just out of curiosity, what file system/cluster size do you use?

He has create his own FS that allows a cluster size of 1 Byte - the days of oversized and byte wasting clusters are over 

Nice!  His file system uses a cluster size of 1/512 of a sector!

Hutch,

Could you please move these posts to their proper place? Afterwards, please delete this one (by the way: the old forum used to have a delete button - where is it gone?)

Thanks.

[hutch--]

No need, the Workshop is a place for general discussion and many topics wander from their original subject.

[Ryan]

My apologies.  I was trying to get a feeling for pros and cons.  I got a bit carried away.  I'm sorry.

[Antariy]

Jochen, it's cute technique simplifying the code readability, besides it could have its use, for instance, in an inner loops of some heavy multithreaded apps (for accessing global vars controlling the threads each from another) :t

[jj2007]

Jochen, it's cute technique simplifying the code readability, besides it could have its use, for instance, in an inner loops of some heavy multithreaded apps (for accessing global vars controlling the threads each from another) :t

Thanks, Alex, that could indeed be the most interesting application for this technique.

@Ryan: Thanks for the clarification :icon14:

[dedndave]

it can do a lot for you

if you look at the structures i posted earlier, you will see that i have horz and vert scroll info structs
i use the same code for both axis
at the beginning, i just grab a pointer into the structure
if it is horz scroll, the scroll info struct is right there
if it is vert scroll, i add the struct size and - bang - i am pointing at vert scroll info
then - both use the same code

again - with the handles...
when the child windows and controls are created in a loop, the handles fill the structure
in WM_SIZE, i use an index into the handle struct to adjust window/control sizes and positions

so - it saves more than a few bytes   :t

[Gunther]

so - it saves more than a few bytes   :t

Dave,

good point and a really cool technique. :t

Gunther