Bug? Type declaration clashes with XUI Views

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CaptKronos

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• Mar 30, 2019

• #1

(Not sure if this is reporting a bug or making a wish.)

As per this post https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/xui-views-causing-compiler-error.104310/ in a project that uses XUI Views, creating the following declaration causes a compile error.

B4X:

Type item(index As Int, text As String)

In fact the actual definition of item doesn't matter, it's the name 'item' that causes the problem.

I believe it would be useful if the IDE (or the compiler with a more obvious error) could flag up these clashes.

 

Erel

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• Mar 31, 2019

• #2

Confirmed.

 

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CaptKronos

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• Jun 27, 2019

• #3

I have just noticed that this bug still exists in v5.81.

 

Erel

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• Jun 28, 2019

• #4

This is not exactly a bug. B4xlibs are compiled together with your app. The conflict happens because XUI Views code use the 'Item' identifier as a variable name.

 

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CaptKronos

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• Jun 28, 2019

• #5

Do you think it would be possible to introduce a more obvious error message?

 

Erel

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• Jun 30, 2019

• #6

This error will not happen in the next version of B4i.