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Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Weird TP7 behaviour

Why does it say UNKNOWN IDENTIFIER about my procs in a unit I made?
The unit is formatted correctly and has worked until now.
 
Scott Earnes

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Weird TP7 behaviour


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Pop wrote:
> Why does it say UNKNOWN IDENTIFIER about my procs in a unit I made?
> The unit is formatted correctly and has worked until now.

The meaning is self-evident.  The compiler encountered an identifier in your
source code which it doesn't understand.  If you haven't changed anything in
that unit, you probably renamed or removed a variable it needs in unit *used*
by the unit which is causing the error.  When you get the error, The compiler
will show you exactly where the error occurred by moving the cursor to the
identifier it doesn't understand.  That would be a good starting point.

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Po

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Weird TP7 behaviour


On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:43:46 -0400, Scott Earnest

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<setech@_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Pop wrote:

>> Why does it say UNKNOWN IDENTIFIER about my procs in a unit I made?
>> The unit is formatted correctly and has worked until now.

>The meaning is self-evident.  The compiler encountered an identifier in your
>source code which it doesn't understand.  If you haven't changed anything in
>that unit, you probably renamed or removed a variable it needs in unit *used*
>by the unit which is causing the error.  When you get the error, The compiler
>will show you exactly where the error occurred by moving the cursor to the
>identifier it doesn't understand.  That would be a good starting point.

It seems to not like certain words in unit names: Misc

and in functions: Search..., Find..., etc

Scott Earnes

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Weird TP7 behaviour


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Pop wrote:
> It seems to not like certain words in unit names: Misc

> and in functions: Search..., Find..., etc

This is still rather vague.  Specific code examples to offer?

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Joe Jar

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Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Weird TP7 behaviour


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Scott Earnest <setech@_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Pop wrote:

>> It seems to not like certain words in unit names: Misc

>> and in functions: Search..., Find..., etc

>This is still rather vague.  Specific code examples to offer?

The unit name cannot have the same name as a function within the unit,
and probably not a function in other units that it uses.
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Scott Earnes

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Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Weird TP7 behaviour


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Joe Jared wrote:
> The unit name cannot have the same name as a function within the unit,
> and probably not a function in other units that it uses.

This would lead to duplicate indentifier errors, NOT unknown identifier.

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