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Ok… this is frustrating. seems since I saved some code using 2018… things are messed up

The compiler (regardless of what version) is now reporting that two methods “do not exist”

  • They clearly do exist. even Autocomplete identifies them.
  • They are both called multiple times… yet it only complains about one call of each of them
  • If I right click on the offending line… it still manages to “Jump to Definition” so clearly SOMETHING knows

I have tried deleting and retyping the lines to no avail…

I also did notice something else. I had a line that originally contains " + S + " and it changed to “+ Str(d) +”

FYI… I ran all this code just last night, and was resuming activity this morning, when all of a sudden …

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REALLY STRANGE.
This code was originally written before the COLOR function had named colors attached
So I was using “&C000000” for black instead of “COLOR.BLACK”
I restored a previous version of the code that worked, and did a global replace of “&c000000” with “color.black”
Then the above issue reappeared!

EDIT : FOUND IT… and this needs to be included somehow in the documents I think

Each of the two methods… had an optional parameter… which was a color who defaulted to black

Turns out using COLOR.BLACK in the signature of a method to assign an default optional value is NOT VALID, you must use &C000000

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I’m not sure why you’d get an error as they should just evaluate as constants, which you can use to provide default values for parameters.

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If you’re able to file a Feedback case for this, it would be helpful as this behavior seems incorrect.

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I don’t do feedback for reasons that I have discussed before.

But I restored the parameter to &C000000 and the error went away… put it back in and the error returned… so this should be super simple to replicate.

and is COLOR.BLACK truly a “constant”… since it is a function of a class

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I am currently having similar issues with random errors when running a debug. I can clear those errors by Analyzing the project then running it.

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Dave, I filed it as <https://xojo.com/issue/54438>

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Thanks… we should meet for lunch of something… since we seem to be the only two forum members in San Diego