Hi all,

I have A7 commercial, and I have built my first little test program. It's a cute little sucker, runs and compiles like a champ.

Now, starting a clean project, trying to re-write and clean up my old code, SED is giving me some just freaking weird crap.

Here's my main script:

#include <acknex.h>
#include <default.c>

function main()
{

PANEL* MainMenu =
{
MainMenu.pos_x = 0;
MainMenu.pos_y = 0;
MainMenu.layer = 1;
MainMenu.bmap = "blue8x8.tga";
MainMenu.flags = OVERLAY | SHOW;
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/* Initialization */
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// PlayerData Player1;

MainMenu.pos_x = 400;
MainMenu.pos_y = 300;

mouse_mode = 1;
video_mode = 7;

level_load("./resources/maps/FPSTest1.wmb");
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Main Loop
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
while(1)
{
if(key_esc)
break;

wait(1);
}
}

It tells me all of the MainMenu variables are "Keyword Unknown"?

I also had this code broken out into files, one for menus, one called stdafx.h (The Visual Studio habits die hard...) and I was getting some funky errors about the whole business.

The way it used to look was

stdafx.h included acknex.h and default.c and Menusystem.h (my header), which originally tried to declare the following:

typedef struct MenuSystem
{
PANEL* MainMenu;
}MenuSystem;

However, when I did that, it would run, just not work, and I'd get error E1513 when I tried to use the struct.

Does SED have something like Clean & Rebuild That forcibly recompiles all files from scratch or does it just not like multiple files?

EDIT: Oups, sorry Warez user, no support.

Jeez even warez users cannot read the manual it seems.

Actually, I do now legitimately own A7 and will happily prove it. And yes, I did read the manual, Xarthor. Other projects I have built with multiple source files worked fine, but this seems to have started recently.

define the panel outside of the main function.

I tried that, same result.

I fixed the issue with the code above not compiling, was an oversight on my part.

corrected code

Indeed, thank you TechMuc. Any idea why it seems to have issues with putting PANEL* inside of a struct? Both of these are in a different source file now. The top works, but the struct does not compile

// works
PANEL* Menu =
{
pos_x = 0;
pos_y = 0;
layer = 1;
bmap = "blue8x8.tga";
flags = OVERLAY | SHOW;
}

// Does not work
struct TestMenu
{
PANEL* Menu2 = // <---- Syntax error
{
pos_x = 750;
pos_y = 550;
layer = 1;
bmap = "blue8x8.tga";
flags = OVERLAY | SHOW;
}
};

More interestingly, if I simplify the struct to just declare the panel

struct TestMenu
{
PANEL* Menu2;
};

It compiles, but once I include the file in my main.c, it comes back as unidentified. If I typedef it, it's seen, and compiles, but I get a crash as soon as I try to use it

declaration:
typedef struct TestMenu
{
PANEL* Menu2;
};

Usage in main():
TestMenu Test;
Test.Menu2.pos_x = 750; // <- crash

I'm also noticing Lite-C here doesn't seem to have new & delete or malloc? I am guessing the PANEL* points to some random memory address (or NULL if lite-c defaults them to NULL), so I am guessing I will have to define another PANEL* somewhere, initialize it, and set Test.Menu2 to the panel I create?