[swcrissman]

As mentioned in anoter thread, I am overriding the drawRect function in a subclass of NSOpenGLView. I got it all working, and was trying to create a second NSRect, but the compiler was complaining about my declaration, which was just: NSRect aRect;

I could not figure out what was going on for the longest time. Finally, I just moved the declaration to the top of the function and, like magic, it worked. No problems whatsoever, and the only difference was moving it to the top of the function rather than towards the middle.

Now, as I said, everything is working. But I still don't understand why this was happening. Can someone fill me in on just what was going on? And why did moving the declaration fix the problem?

Thanks alot. I'm learning a ton here, and can't state how strongly I appreciate all the help.

Spencer

[parallax]

EVERYTHING's got to be at the top of a block of code (usually a function, but you _can_ declare variables within all braces, like ifs or fors; however, those go out of scope). Try that with an int or char in the middle. Chances are, you'll get a parse error.

Hope that helps,

-px

[Angus_D]

This isn't just related to Cocoa, it happens in all of C. The C89 standard says that all declarations go at the top of a block, but the C99 standard allows inline declarations (as does C++). The only problem is that very few compilers support C99, Apple's GCC included.