Question for Joe Ranieri on compiler warning

General
#1

If there is a textfield “TextField1” and you do

dim TextField1 as string

shouldn’t this create a warning in the “Analysis warnings”? This came up here: https://forum.xojo.com/38591-help and I was astonished to see no warning.

#2

It’s a local variable and take precedence.
You can still refer to the control via self.TextField1

#3

Antonio:

the question is valid because some Xojo newbies (but not computer developer newbies) used this “syntax” and asked why this does not works.

… and your answer is valid too :wink:

#4

Antonio’s answer is correct though. Try removing the Dim from that statement and try again.

TextField1 = "s"
#5

[quote=314872:@Greg O’Lone]Antonio’s answer is correct though. Try removing the Dim from that statement and try again.

TextField1 = "s"

Should be:

TextField1.Text = "s"
#6

[quote=314874:@Simon Berridge]Should be:

TextField1.Text = "s"

Not for the original question on why you don’t get a compiler warning.

#7