- From: Sacha <sacha@clip.dia.fi.upm.es>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:27:11 +0200
- To: mesexp@di.uminho.pt
- Cc: www-lib@w3.org
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use webbot and adapt it my own way. I must say the
> Library code is really complex, though it has great potentialities.I
> just regret the fact it's not implement in C++.
>
> One of the problems I have is when I try to use the callback function
> HText_setStyle(Htext *text, HTStyle *style)
> and try to access one of the fields in 'style' the compiler returns
> the error message:
> invalid use of undefined type 'struct _HTStyle'.
>
> Could someone please help me out to solve the problem.
> Thanks in advance
> --
Hmmm...
This sounds a lot like the weird "dereferencing pointer to incomplete
type" errors gcc was giving me. I think the problem is that struct
_HTStyle (like struct _HTStream) is not defined in any header file. My
analysis was that this is because of the lib's pseudo C++ system; by not
defining _HTStyle, you can redefine it in any subclass of HTStyle
[Eric?], just like _HTStream is redefined in all the different stream
modules.
Anyway, try putting
struct _HTStyle {};
somewhere near the top of your file.
This probably will cause problems if you are allocating HTStyles or
accessing fields in the HTStyle (I haven't used styles, so I can't say).
Also, have a look at the C/C++ Style document at w3's web site, maybe it
says something about this.
Later,
Sacha.
--
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Received on Thursday, 20 June 1996 04:28:37 UTC