How to avoid a specific "FindData" to a platform?

[Rodrigo Pimenta Carvalho]

Hi.

I built an application on Delphi 5 and every thing was well.
Today I compiled my old app in Delphi 7.
However, I got warnings like:

"Symbol FindData is specific to a platform"

"The symbol is tagged (using the platform hint directive) as one that
may not be available on all platforms. If you are writing cross-platform
applications, it may cause a problem."

This warnings raised to the following code line:

...
var
HighDateTime : cardinal;
SearchRec: TSearchRec;
Highdatetime:= SearchRec.FindData.ftCreationTime.dwHighDateTime; //
this line caused the warning.
...

How can I fix my code??

Any hint will be very helpful.

Thanks .

Rodrigo.

[Ignacio Vazquez]

"Rodrigo Pimenta Carvalho" <pim...@inatel.br> wrote in message
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> How can I fix my code??
>
> Any hint will be very helpful.

There's nothing wrong with your code per se, it's just that what you're
doing won't work under Linux.

Cheers,
Ignacio

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[Ian Kirk]

"Rodrigo Pimenta Carvalho" <pim...@inatel.br> wrote in message

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> Hi.
>
> I built an application on Delphi 5 and every thing was well.
> Today I compiled my old app in Delphi 7.
> However, I got warnings like:
>
> "Symbol FindData is specific to a platform"
>
> "The symbol is tagged (using the platform hint directive) as one that
> may not be available on all platforms. If you are writing cross-platform
> applications, it may cause a problem."

As Ignacio says, there's no actual problem with your code - you're just
being warned that it'll only work underWindows.

If you want to suppress the warnings, add this line at the top of all
affected units:

{$WARN SYMBOL_PLATFORM OFF}

HTH,
Ian