[Moved] Wierd ISO C++ forbids delaration with no type error

[andre]

You are certainly missing a closing brace for your class. Also, what compiler is this?

[poporacer]

Opps, I cut the irrelevant code out and accidently cut out the closing brace and semicolon. I am using the QT Creator compiler, mingw?

[linoux]

It looks like the compiler doesn't recognize StartPage as a class. Maybe you should include the header of StartPage and make sure the compiler sees it.

[giesbert]

[quote author="poporacer" date="1295531087"]Opps, I cut the irrelevant code out and accidently cut out the closing brace and semicolon. I am using the QT Creator compiler, mingw?[/quote]

can you please post the complete header? I think there must be some other error that leads to this one.

[goetz]

Your snippet works for me. So, as Gerolf stated, there must be some other error.

[poporacer]

I will post the complete header when I get home. I had another wierd error earlier this week where I added a button in designer and then when I ran the program it wasn't there. I tried clean qmake and then rebuild. It still didn't work. I ended up getting it to work by manually deleting all the build files....object files, make files etc and then run qmake and build. I tried it this time but it didn't work.
Thanks for your help.

[poporacer]

Real strange behaviour. If I change the forward declaration to some other name and the pointer declaration to match, it works. And when I change the header file and class declaration, the compiler doesn't highlight StartPage references as not being declared. Is it possible that StartPage is a function or class in either C++ or QT? The one thing that gives me doubts is that Volker tried the snippet and all is OK. Here is the complete header.
@#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H
#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QSettings>

#include "address.h"
#include "projects.h"

//Forward declaration of classes used
class AddressPage;
class ProjectPage;
class StartPage;
namespace Ui {
class MainWindow;

}

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT

public:
explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = 0);
~MainWindow();

protected:
void changeEvent(QEvent *e);
void closeEvent (QCloseEvent *event);

private:
Ui::MainWindow *ui;
ProjectPage *project;
AddressPage *address;
StartPage *startPage;
void writeSettings();
void readSettings() ;
int idAddress;
int idProject;
QSettings *mSettings;

signals:
void restoreAddressCombo(int);
void cmbAddressChange(int);
void restoreProjectCombo(int);

private slots:
void on_btnSection_clicked();
};

#endif // MAINWINDOW_H
@
I tried this on another computer and got the same error. Any ideas?
I am think I might just rename my class and all references. But I would like to know why it had the problem.
Thanks a bunch. Any Ideas?

[goetz]

Seems to be a problem with these two includes:

@
#include "address.h"
#include "projects.h"
@

I have to comment them, because they are not on my computer. The file compiles without errors here.

[giesbert]

And as both are not used inside this header file, they should anyway not be included here...

[poporacer]

I moved the headers, and I found that the problem might lie in the classes. They reference some classes that also use winserialport.h and other classes. I think there might be a class that uses startpage so I changed the class name and the associated files and all is well. Now I ran accross another problem. But I will start a new post. I am not sure if it should be in QT or here in C++ I think it should go in QT as the error references a qt file.

Thanks for your help.