[DaGuy]

After some success with the tutorials I decided to mess around a bit and was quickly stuck with NSTextField -rather heartbreaking, since this is seems to pretty easy. Here is the scenario.

1. Press a button
2. The button sends a message to a controler object
3. controller object sends a message to a "Message Text" element to
change its title to "Running".

Simple enough right? Here is the method implementation. Note that "MessageArea" is of "IBOutlet id" type and points to the Message Text element.

- (IBAction)start id)sender
{

[ MessageArea setStringValue:@"Running" ];

... some other code goes below here, which I know it's not broken

}

Well, this drives the compiler bananas! It returns an error for all the code that follows and no error for the setStringValue call. Weird ah? If I comment the suspect line above, all compiles perfectly. Any ideas?



[This message has been edited by DaGuy (edited 05-28-2001).]

[honeydew]

this drives the compiler bananas! It returns an error for all the code that follows and no error for the setStringValue call. Weird ah? If I comment the suspect line above, all compiles perfectly.

Make sure all your variable declarations come first.

- (IBAction)startid)sender
{

// Local variable declarations
// int i = 0;
// etc.

[ MessageArea setStringValue:@"Running" ];

// more code statements

}

[DaGuy]

Thanks a whole bunch! I followed your tip and it worked just fine.

I have to some how curb my Java schooling, that C in objective-C is to be taken quite seriously.

[Angus_D]

Actually, you can put declarations anywhere in C99... I just want Apple to start putting support for it into their compiler

[lindberg]

That will happen whenever Apple moves to a gcc that has support for C99. If gcc 3.0 does have full support for C99, then it will almost certainly be happening, though not in the near future. gcc 2.95 (which Apple's cc is currently based off of) does not have much C99 support I guess.

[Wixar]

Apple's forthcoming Objective-C++ compiler would also allow variables to be declared at any point in a code block.

-Peter