Hey. I'm using the newest official release of VCC 2 (the one that came with WinMapEd), but for some reason, the following function isn't compiling properly:

void AreaPrint (string datext, int x, int y, int xlen)
{
GotoXY ((x+(xlen/2))-((len(datext)*7)/2), y);
PrintString (gamefont, datext);
}

It's giving me an "Unknown token " error on the GotoXY line, even though x is VERY clearly defined in the function declaration.

Anybody wanna let me know what's going on here??

Thanks!!

-Tom

P.S. For those who are wondering, this is a function which is supposed to print a line of text, centered, in a user-defined window whose top-left corner is at x, y and which is xlen pixels in width.

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Sorry, last one. (: My function uses "len()", which doesn't exist... that should be "strlen()". I realized this and changed it, but the function still won't compile, so that was NOT it.

-Tom

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Er, I tried to explain that in my P.S., but OK, I'll go into a little more detail here...

In my battle system, I have multiple little windows at the bottom of the screen for each of the characters in your party. If I want to center a line of text in one of these windows -- say, a character's name -- my function will let me do that. I simply specify the top-left x coordinate of the window, the width of the window, and the y coordinate you want the dialogue printed on, and it'll print the dialogue in the exact center of the window at that y coordinate.

I dunno if I can explain it any better...

But really, WHAT the function does isn't the issue here. I'm concerned as to WHY VCC isn't recognizing x when I use it in my GotoXY line!! There's really NO REASON why this should be the case, and I'm hoping it's some little documented bug that someone can explain to me.

-Tom

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I'll try looking at it again. While I was in school I tried coding a different implementation, but it didn't compile, either...

all those darn parentheses are confusing, man.

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It is not wrong to not understand, for we are all ignorant, but neither is understanding pointless.

Oddly enough, the mammoth function I had before it in system.vc had one too many {'s and one too few }'s. What I find odd, though, is that my system.vc both compiled and worked perfectly BEFORE I added that new function... and even when I did add the new function, the compiler chose to yell at me for using an undefined variable x rather than for placing a function declaration inside of another function. (: Not a particularly helpful compiler error.

But yeah, thanks for testing the code. Dunno how I coulda missed that -- and dunno how the compiler coulda missed that, either!!

-Tom

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