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Torque Visual studio 7.1 compatibility

by Sander Van Rossen · in Torque Game Engine · 04/14/2003 (2:23 am) · 6 replies

for those who are interested in making torque 7.1 compatible:
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sim\netobject.h, line 51: typedef SimObject Parent;
console\simbase.h, line 137: typedef ConsoleObject Parent;
gui\guiControl.h, line 36: typedef SimGroup Parent;

these shouldn't be private, according to vc7.1 the typedefs cannot be used by its children... i made them protected instead...

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lib\opengl2d3d\gllist.h, line 9:

#include

changed to:

#include
using namespace std;

(i don't know how portable that solution is tough,
can someone check that out?)
(tried stlport, didn't work with vc7.1)
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tools\max2dtsExporter\NvTriStripObjects.cc, line 5:
#define set Vector

changed to:

//#define set Vector

(it causes compilation problems in header files above it;
god knows how)
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I also noticed that in the vc7 and vc6 project files all the header files for 'core' are actually placed in 'console'?
Is there any good reason for this?
Seems like a mistake to me..
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Torque Owner J. Donavan Stanley
#1
04/14/2003 (3:31 am)
The typedefs are not supposed to be used by the children. That's why they were private in the first place. Almost all Torque classes use this convention.

Torque Owner Sander Van Rossen
#2
04/14/2003 (7:01 am)
well maybe they're not supposed to be used by the children.. but they are..

check out:
engine\game\net\netTest.cc, line 43
this class doesn't have a parent typedef
which generates an error on line 71

or engine\editor\terraformer.h
class Terraformer

or
engine\game\guinomousectrl.cc
class GuiNoMouseCtrl

Torque Owner J. Donavan Stanley
#3
04/14/2003 (7:45 am)
Than that's a bug, they should have their own Parent typedef.

Torque Owner Sander Van Rossen
#4
04/15/2003 (12:00 am)
Yesterday i didn't have time to write them all down in the post coz i had to run to catch a train hehe.

but here's the complete list of classes that miss a parent typedef.
to fix it, add these:


engine\game\banlist.h, line 17: typedef SimObject Parent;
engine\game\guinomousectrl.cc, line 11: typedef GuiControl Parent;
engine\editor\terraformer.h, line 63: typedef SimObject Parent;
engine\game\net\nettest.cc, line 45: typedef NetObject Parent;

I've post a bug report in the bugs forum

Torque Owner Judah Himango
#5
04/15/2003 (1:08 am)
Is it just me, or does VS.Net take like twice as long to compile Torque as VC 6 does? Hmmph.

Torque Owner Sander Van Rossen
#6
04/15/2003 (2:01 am)
I don't know, i've never compiled it with vc6..