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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:45:59 +0000
From: Tom Fjellstrom <tomcf AT connect DOT ab DOT ca>
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Subject: Allegro problem
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Hello,

I've been having this really 
annoying problem lately.

whenever i try to initialize an
allegro gui 'MENU' or 'DIALOG'
struct with a variable or makecol()
i get a fatal error.

so if I had this var:
char *curly = "i am joe";

and this struct:

DIALOG larry[] = {
{ d_text_proc, 0, 0, 0, 0, makecol(255,255,255), makecol(0,0,0), 0, 0,
0, 0, curly },
{ NULL }
};

I get these errors:

initializer element for `larry[0].fg' is not constant
initializer element for `larry[0].bg' is not constant
initializer element for `larry[0].dp' is not constant

Has any one else had this problem?
I know it doesn't happen when i initialize my
own structs this way.

Is it a problem/feature of allegro?
or is it my fault some how?


thanks for any help.

--

"If i wasn't so stupid, I'd be smarter." - unknown :-)