Line too long error

[Rainstorm]

hi am getting a line too long error in this part of the code,...don't know why
that's the only error am getting.

the line reported for the error is the first line  invoke CreateWindowEx,

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   invoke CreateWindowEx,
       NULL,\                           ; No Extended Styles
       addr wclassname,\                ; Class Name
       addr windowname,\                 ; Window Name
       WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW\             ; Overlapped Window
             or WS_HSCROLL\             ; Horizontal Scrollbar
             or WS_VSCROLL,\            ; Vertical Scrollbar
       CW_USEDEFAULT,                    ; Default Horizontal Position
       CW_USEDEFAULT,                    ; Default Vertical Position
       CW_USEDEFAULT,                    ; Default width
       CW_USEDEFAULT,                    ; Default height
       NULL,\                            ; no parent or owner window
       NULL,\                            ; class menu used
       hInstance,\                       ; instance handle
       NULL                              ; no window creation data


thanks

[fearless]

I think that its the comments thats causing the problem. You might try removing them first. I remember reading somewhere (iczelion tutorials?) that this can cause masm to complain about the line length.

So try:

; Create my main window etc etc here
invoke CreateWindowEx,
       NULL,\                       
       addr wclassname,\ 
       addr windowname,\         
       WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW\
             or WS_HSCROLL\   
             or WS_VSCROLL,\ 
       CW_USEDEFAULT, 
       CW_USEDEFAULT,
       CW_USEDEFAULT,       
       CW_USEDEFAULT, 
       NULL,\     
       NULL,\ 
       hInstance,\   
       NULL   

Best regards

KSR

[Rainstorm]

I think that its the comments thats causing the problem.

Damn!.....that sucks!!!!!!! : //     : (

Wonder what's the actual reason that the comments cause a problem.
Does this happen only on functions using multiple-lines ?l

I removed all comments in that section of the code & it assembles proper.

thankies.

[fearless]

Hi,

Checked iczelions tuts for the source of that issue, but no joy.

I did find a ref in the Masm Reference Doc that i found on my hard dirve (had to search for it, havent looked at it for a long time ;-)

Hope this helps explain why:

A1009   line too long
A line in a source file exceeded the limit of 512 characters.
If multiple physical lines are concatenated with the line-continuation character ( \ ), the resulting logical line is still limited to 512 characters.


So 512 is the limit it seems, including any comments. Not sure where i actually sourced this document, but if you want a copy pm me and i can forward it on to you.

Cheers

KSR

[Rainstorm]

KSR,
many thanks for the info.

[zooba]

It also includes whitespace, so replacing spaces with tabs can really cut down on these problems.

Alternatively, you may get more mileage out of not using the line-continuation character and just relying on MASM knowing that a comma isn't the end of a line (like with the first line: invoke CreateWindowEx,). I'm not sure if it semi-blindly concatenates these in the same way or not.

Cheers,

Zooba :U