[juliansader]

I am trying to convert some basic windows-related C++ functions to Lua API. In particular, GetClientRect, which takes a HWND as argument.

How do I pass a HWND from Lua to a C++ function?

If I declare the function as follows, everything builds OK and and the syntax in the auto-generated API help is also correct.

bool C_GetClientRect(HWND window, int* widthOut, int* heightOut);

And in ReaScript.cpp:

APIFUNC(C_GetClientRect), "bool", "HWND,int*,int*", "window,widthOut,heightOut", ...

However, when I try to call this function, I get an error in REAPER: "Unknown type HWND".

I checked whether any other SWS functions take a HWND as parameter, and found two: BR_MIDI_CCLaneRemove and BR_MIDI_CCLaneRemove. Surprisingly, these functions also give the same "unknown type" error.

DarkStar has noticed this error back in 2016: Q4: Lua MIDI functions.