Finished migrating the Windows code to using the pregenerated constants.

experiments/windowsconstgen.go

@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ var hacknames = map[string]string{
 	"_NULL":						"x_NULL",
 	"_IDI_APPLICATION":			"x_IDI_APPLICATION",
 	"_IDC_ARROW":				"x_IDC_ARROW",
+	"_HWND_MESSAGE":			"x_HWND_MESSAGE",
 }
 
 func hacknamesPreamble() string {
@@ -126,8 +127,7 @@ func main() {
 		knowns += "\n" + ident + " (" + kind + ")"
 	}
 	if knowns != "" {
-//ignore for now while I still migrate everything
-//		panic("error: the following are still known!" + knowns)		// has a newline already
+		panic("error: the following are still known!" + knowns)		// has a newline already
 	}
 
 	// keep sorted for git

init_windows.go

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ func getWinMainnCmdShow() {
 		hStdOutput		_HANDLE
 		hStdError			_HANDLE
 	}
-	const _STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW = 0x00000001
 
 	// does not fail according to MSDN
 	kernel32.NewProc("GetStartupInfoW").Call(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&info)))

menus_windows.go

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-// 10 february 2014
-
-package ui
-
-import (
-//	"syscall"
-//	"unsafe"
-)
-
-// Menu notifications.
-const (
-	_WM_COMMAND = 0x0111
-)

stdfont_windows.go

@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@ var (
 	statusbarFont		_HANDLE
 )
 
-const (
-	_SPI_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS = 0x0029
-	_LF_FACESIZE = 32		// from wingdi.h
-)
-
 type _LOGFONT struct {
 	lfHeight			int32
 	lfWidth			int32

uitask_windows.go

@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ type uiret struct {
 }
 
 const (
-	_WM_APP = 0x8000 + iota
-	msgRequested
+	msgRequested = _WM_APP + iota + 1		// + 1 just to be safe
 	msgQuit
 	msgSetAreaSize
 )
@@ -98,8 +97,6 @@ var (
 	_translateMessage = user32.NewProc("TranslateMessage")
 )
 
-var getMessageFail = -1		// because Go doesn't let me
-
 func msgloop() {
 	var msg struct {
 		hwnd	_HWND
@@ -116,7 +113,7 @@ func msgloop() {
 			uintptr(_NULL),
 			uintptr(0),
 			uintptr(0))
-		if r1 == uintptr(getMessageFail) {		// error
+		if r1 == negConst(-1) {		// error
 			panic("error getting message in message loop: " + err.Error())
 		}
 		if r1 == 0 {		// WM_QUIT message
@@ -133,11 +130,6 @@ const (
 	msghandlerclass = "gomsghandler"
 )
 
-const (
-	// fron winuser.h
-	_HWND_MESSAGE = -3
-)
-
 func makeMessageHandler() (hwnd _HWND, err error) {
 	wc := &_WNDCLASS{
 		lpszClassName:	uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr(msghandlerclass))),
@@ -162,7 +154,8 @@ func makeMessageHandler() (hwnd _HWND, err error) {
 		negConst(_CW_USEDEFAULT),
 		negConst(_CW_USEDEFAULT),
 		negConst(_CW_USEDEFAULT),
-		negConst(_HWND_MESSAGE),
+		// don't negConst() HWND_MESSAGE; windowsconstgen was given a pointer by windows.h, and pointers are unsigned, so converting it back to signed doesn't work
+		uintptr(_HWND_MESSAGE),
 		uintptr(_NULL),
 		uintptr(hInstance),
 		uintptr(_NULL))

zconstants_windows_386.go

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ const _LB_GETSELITEMS = 401
 const _LB_GETTEXT = 393
 const _LB_GETTEXTLEN = 394
 const _LB_INSERTSTRING = 385
+const _LF_FACESIZE = 32
 const _MA_ACTIVATE = 1
 const _MB_ICONERROR = 16
 const _MB_OK = 0
@@ -72,9 +73,11 @@ const _SIF_RANGE = 1
 const _SIF_TRACKPOS = 16
 const _SM_CXDOUBLECLK = 36
 const _SM_CYDOUBLECLK = 37
+const _SPI_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS = 41
 const _SRCCOPY = 13369376
 const _SS_LEFTNOWORDWRAP = 12
 const _SS_NOPREFIX = 128
+const _STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW = 1
 const _SW_ERASE = 4
 const _SW_HIDE = 0
 const _SW_INVALIDATE = 2
@@ -115,7 +118,9 @@ const _VK_SHIFT = 16
 const _VK_SUBTRACT = 109
 const _VK_UP = 38
 const _WM_ACTIVATE = 6
+const _WM_APP = 32768
 const _WM_CLOSE = 16
+const _WM_COMMAND = 273
 const _WM_ERASEBKGND = 20
 const _WM_GETMINMAXINFO = 36
 const _WM_GETTEXT = 13
@@ -146,6 +151,7 @@ const _WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW = 13565952
 const _WS_TABSTOP = 65536
 const _WS_VISIBLE = 268435456
 const _WS_VSCROLL = 2097152
+const _HWND_MESSAGE = 4294967293
 const _IDC_ARROW = 32512
 const _IDI_APPLICATION = 32512
 const _INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = 4294967295