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Why aren’t they const?
I believe that’s flawed API design. Or am I missing something?
UINT GetWidth(); UINT GetHeight(); ... vs.
UINT GetWidth() const; UINT GetHeight() const; ...
Hard to say. I’d agree, but perhaps there is something in the implementation that prevents them from being
const, and that they didn’t want to add overhead to hide. Nowdays we have themutablekeyword, but I think that is younger than this API.Or maybe the designers of the API belong to the (sometimes shockingly large, imo) bunch of C++ developers who are hostile towards the
constkeyword, feeling that only makes things harder to use. I’m no Windows historian, so I can’t tell you. 🙂