autocomplete in VC++ 6.0

["Andreja Zivkovic" <andy@zivkotech.net.au>]

Hi,

First off, I installed the DX7 SDK (not 7.0a - i downloaded it ages ago, and
don't want to download the 100+ meg SDK with a 56k modem), with everything,
except the runtime libraries, since I figured I could just install 7.0a off
a game CD. I put the include and lib directories at the top of the relevent
lists in the directories options tab.

Anyway, if make a surface in a class I write, I would put:

LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE7 m_pFront;

however, if I type LPDIRECTDRAWSUR then press ctrl-space (to use
autocomplete), the only options I get are LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE,
LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE2 and LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE3, even though ddraw.h from
DX7's SDK clearly has 2, 3, 4 and 7. (this part doesn't bother me too much,
it's the next bit which I find exetremely useful).

This means, that when I later type
m_pFront-> , autocomplete does not pop up, giving me the names of all
functions and members of m_pFront, as you'd expect. Also, it doesn't give me
the parameter list of a function, when I type the opening bracket.

This would suggest that it's not using the info in dx7's ddraw.h. I also
tried copying dx7's ddraw.h over the one in the VC++ directory, but i still
have the same problem.

Do other people have the same problem?

thanks,
Andy

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