TCPABI.INC problems

[Jonathan Simpson]

Well, I am probably missing something obvious, but I can't seem
to get TCPABI.INC to work properly. At present, I can't get it
to compile. I get "Error 525: Type id (?%&!#$) not allowed" in
the line "FUNCTION TCP_ERROR(errnum%) AS STRING" presumably,
there is something wrong with that %, but thats how it was on the
downloads page and it does say it's for 3.5... so where am I going
wrong?

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Jonathan Simpson

[Michael Mattias]

As little as you gave here compiles fine with PB/DOS 3.5.. (referenced INC file is not part of my release set).

About all I can think of is maybe "errnum" is defined as a SHARED or COMMON elsewhere in the file?

[Buck Huffman]

error 525 is decribed in the reference manual as being related to user
defined types and unions, so the most likely problem is that you have
a UDT or a union(or an element within one) called errnum. If that is the
case you will have to rename the variable errnum in your function to
something else or give the UDT or union(or element therein) a new unique
name. If you are trying to pass a UDT called errnum to the function then
you must leave off the % sign. If errnum is an element in a UDT then you
must precede it with the name of the UDT and a period such as:

FUNCTION MyFunction(TypeName.errnum) AS STRING

Either way I prefer to leave off the % sign, it only leads to hard to
find errors(at least for me anyway).

buck


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[This message has been edited by Buck Huffman (edited February 21, 2004).]

[Gustavo Asplanatti]

Hi Jonathan....

You are probably using $DIM ALL metastatement, try changing the
definition of the function:

FUNCTION TCP_ERROR(errnum%) AS STRING

to:

FUNCTION TCP_ERROR(errnum AS INTEGER) AS STRING

You will change all the definitions of the TCPABI.INC or to
desist of using $DIM ALL...

I am using this library and it works very well. Luck!!


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Gustavo Asplanatti
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[Jonathan Simpson]

Thanks, that got it I knew it had to be something stupid.

Jonathan Simpson

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Jonathan Simpson