Troubles with enum...

[ThomasH]

Hi@all,

I´m a newbie in programming with CodeWarrior and I´m porting software from my old compiler to the CodeWarrior and I faced a very confusing problem:

I had defined the structure:

typedef struct
{

   BYTE menu_nr_left;          
   BYTE menu_nr_right;
   BYTE menu_nr_up;  
   .....

   enum 
   {
     NUMBER=0,                        
     TEXT_1=1,                        

     TEXT_2=2                        
   }para_view:2;                   

   unsigned int txt_idx;       

   .....

}view_tab_t;

During compiling of the sources I get the error message that NUMBER, TEXT_1 and TEXT_2 are not declared. All declarations in this header are working fine except all enum´s. Please can anybody tell me, what I´ve done wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Thomas

[blewis]

I have encountered the same thing with array definitions using constants defined using enum. The best way is to place the enum definitions in a separate file to give them file scope.

[ThomasH · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your helps!

I defined all enums outside the struct and now all works!

[CrasyCat]

Hello

I assume you are using CodeWarrior for HC12 V4.5. Am I right?

Basically the constants NUMBER, TEXT_1 and TEXT_2  are defined in type view_tab_t. They do not have global scope and are not available outside of a variable of type  view_tab_t.

If you wish to test against that constant you have to write:

  if (viewTab.para_view == viewTab.TEXT_2) {

where viewTab is defined as

view_tab_t viewTab;

Another alternative to to define the enumerated type and its constant outside of the structured type view_tab_t.

CrasyCat