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C programming help!

hey i am trying to learn c and i was just wondering what is meant when a functions return value has () around it

eg

Code:

BOOL (WINAPI *MySetLayeredWindowAttributes)(HWND,COLORREF,BYTE,DWORD);

i have seen it alot but cannot grasp what it means

please explain it to me:D

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Thats piece of code u wrote is defined as C++ win32 programming, not c.
That is come extremly complex code there and if your a beginner then ure not going to get anywhere with that!

That function there anyway is just returning a boolean. The first set of brackets is simply a cast for the function as far as i can see from that code. Else it could be worse and you could even be dealing with some overloaded constuctors or garbage, have to see the full code first. Seems fairly odd code to me and i certainly wouldnt be caught dead implementing that unreadable stuff. Whoever wrote that may have thought they were being smart by cutting down lines of code, but at the more important expense of readability.

A far more simple function would be something like -

bool Setwindowsattributes(sWinAttr MyAttributes);

Simply make your own struct with the windows attributes in it, in this case that would be sWinAttr which could contain as many variables as you like. This is far better than passing say more than 4 parameters to a function. Much tidier and cleaner code.

structs... awww.. It is amazing how people actually came up with this stuff from nothing.

if you need any help with structs I'm pretty good in uhm.. just send me a halla!

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