Something is seriously screwed up

[Zack]

...With my QB1.1 IDE.
I decided to rewrite the engine to a text game I'm making. I was going to put the load map code in a SUB, called loadmap.
So I go to Edit -> New Sub, call it loadmap. Then I change the line to accept a parameter. So now it looks like:

Code:

SUB loadmap (fname$)
END SUB

And my cursor is right at the end of the SUB loadmap line. So I press enter, to get on with writing the code, and..."Blank lines are not allowed before SUB/Function line. Is remark OK?"
Jeesus! It's AFTER the SUB line, and Before the END SUB line! :x
[EDIT]Even more screwed up! Simple variable names like fn and fnumber are "duplicate definitions."

[whitetiger0990]

i think i may know the problem.... did you chnage the declare statment so that it has the parameter?

[Zack]

The declare statement is automatically put there by the IDE when you save your work.
And that doesn't explain fn and fnumber being invalid variable names.
And I got QB45 - much better.

[whitetiger0990]

i know it is put there automaticly but if you changed the sub i dont think it changes the declare. so are you sure the declare statment says

Code:

DECLARE loadmap (fname$)

and not

Code:

DECLARE loadmap

[Zack]

This is what I do:
Enter QBASIC.
Go to Edit -> New SUB, name it loadmap.
At the end of the SUB loadmap line I add (fname$). I press ENTER.
"Blank lines are not allowed..." etc.
But whatever, I got QB45.

[whitetiger0990]

so it works now? ok. hmm

[Zack]

No, it doesn't work now, it's still screwed up, but I'm using QB 4.5 now, so I'm OK.

[whitetiger0990]

wait wait wait... it works in 4.5 but NOT 1.1... ok...

[LooseCaboose]

The problem is the varible fname$, QB is interpretting this as though it were defined as:

Code:

DEF FName$ = <expr>

Variable names that start with the letters FN are causing duplicate definition errors because QB is trying to assign the name to a variable and a function.

The other thing to check when manually editting subroutine headers is that something like this doesn't happen:

Code:

SUB loadMap()
'
SUB loadMap(mapName$)

END SUB
'
END SUB

I've had problems with the IDE doing weird stuff like this before.

[Zack]

Tell me about it. :-?