Re: IDE: Accessing main settings outside of ScIDE::Main class

> > /home/dlm/share/supercollider/editors/sc-ide/widgets/help_browser.hpp:170:37:
error: incomplete type ‘ScIDE::Main’ used in nested name specifier

"Incomplete type" means the type you're trying to use is incomplete, i.e.
not fully defined. Probably you are missing an include and/or have includes
that only make forward declarations.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10446494/incomplete-type-error

-Brian

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> ---- On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 15:13:09 +0800 <[email protected]> wrote ----
> > Presumably, in onInterpreterStart(), I need a "Settings::Manager
> *settings = ... something..." but I have no idea what that "something"
> should be. "main.hpp" has:
> >
> > public:
> >     static Main * instance(void) ... blah blah...
> >     ... blah blah...
> >     static Settings::Manager *settings()       { return
> instance()->mSettings;       }
> >
> > But "ScIDE::Main::settings()" produces:
> >
> > In file included from /home/dlm/share/supercollider/
> editors/sc-ide/widgets/main_window.cpp:33:0:
> > /home/dlm/share/supercollider/editors/sc-ide/widgets/help_browser.hpp:
> In member function ‘void ScIDE::HelpBrowserDocklet::onInterpreterStart()’:
> > /home/dlm/share/supercollider/editors/sc-ide/widgets/help_browser.hpp:170:37:
> error: incomplete type ‘ScIDE::Main’ used in nested name specifier
> >        Settings::Manager *settings = ScIDE::Main::settings();
>
> Elsewhere in the source code, I see e.g. "MainWindow::instance()" and even
> "Main::instance()" (widgets/settings/dialog.cpp:109). But here,
> "Main::instance()->settings()" produces the same error.
>
> So what's the problem?
>
> hjh
>
>
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